President Trump Inside and Outside the Lines at the U.N.<br />21, 2017<br />UNITED NATIONS — It was hardly a surprise that Donald J. Trump, the New York real estate impresario-turned-leader of the free world, would mix awkwardly with the highly scripted, scrupulously diplomatic crowd<br />that converges here for the United Nations General Assembly.<br />"I actually saw great potential right across the street, to be honest with you, and it was only for the reason<br />that the United Nations was here that that turned out to be such a successful project," Mr. Trump told the leaders, some of whom appeared puzzled that he viewed the 193-member world body — the successor to the League of Nations — as a real estate play.<br />In his first address to the other leaders, on Monday, he spoke approvingly about the enduring role of the United Nations and paid it what for him is the ultimate compliment: telling the audience<br />that he deliberately built Trump World Tower opposite the slender green-glass and Vermont marble tower that houses the United Nations headquarters.<br />As the president wrapped up his first visit to the United Nations, meeting a battery of leaders from South Korea to Ukraine, his performance showed a man pulled between the imperatives of policing his tone<br />and a temptation to shake up the proceedings with plain talk, parochial humor and well-aimed mockery.<br />Martin said that When he declared to the world’s leaders<br />that he was embarrassed by the Iran nuclear deal negotiated by his presidential predecessor, I felt he shamed America and thereby shamed himself,<br />North Korea one-upped Mr. Trump on his reference to a 1970s Elton John lyric by labeling the president the "Madman Across the Water." As with his first overseas trip in May, the president started off on a deceptively mild<br />and disciplined note, becoming looser, more outspoken and more sharp-elbowed as the week wore on.<br />United Nations said that We believe in sovereign nations,
