President Trump walked into the United Nations yesterday, stopped in front of the reporters waiting for him, and looked straight at CNN.

"I'm surprised that CNN is here covering me," he said. "You should not be here covering me. You said you weren't going to cover me."

CNN had already said it would not be traveling with the President as part of the press pool, since he'd pulled the network off its pool assignment. Kaitlan Collins showed up anyway, on a UN credential.

I love that Trump is like this.

Last week we were told that pulling CNN, Politico and MS NOW off the White House grounds effectively meant the First Amendment as we knew it was permanently destroyed, somehow jeopardizing the entire media apparatus as we know it.

Yet, by some miracle, we all know exactly what Trump did at the UN. Journalists can still report. They're just not guaranteed a special pass in the briefing room.

But the fireworks didn't stop at the door. They continued inside, when Trump addressed a room full of globalists and lovers of big government.

And, as usual, the things he said to this crowd were some of the things a lot of us have been wanting a president to tell them, and people like them, for a long time.

Trump said there is no human right to illegal immigration, but there is a right to remain a sovereign nation. He called on every member of the International Criminal Court to resign from it. He called the UN's Human Rights Council "craven hypocrites."

And when he said Cuba's communist regime is going to fall, the Cuban delegation got up and walked out.

You don't have to like everything about Donald Trump. That's not the point.

The point is that this guy isn't afraid to say what people like me (and many of you) have wanted politicians to say for a long, long time. And my friends, I hope you enjoy it, because we are never going to see this again.

I've followed politics closely since the mid to late 90s. And I started the Toddcast on August 10, 2015, right around the same time Trump launched his political career.

Back when he was one of 17 Republicans running for the party's presidential nomination, I remember talking about the frustrations of the average conservative voter, and the two primary problems they had with the Republican Party. And by the way, many still have these frustrations today — just not with Trump.

The first problem is that many of the candidates we're given to vote for are not really conservative.

They pretend to be conservative long enough to get our vote or our donation. They campaign on issues that matter a lot to us. But then they get to Washington and don't do a diddly darn thing about any of it for the entirety of their term.

Then they come back home, talk about how bad Washington is, and campaign on the same issues they campaigned on the last cycle. Maybe they throw in a couple of fresh ones. And they ask you to send them back to finish the job. What a joke!

Trump turned all that on its head. When he said build that wall, he actually meant it.

That alone created a tremendous amount of trust and loyalty to him amongst conservatives. It’s the kind of bond that cannot be broken easily — and I suspect it never will.

The second problem is that Republicans are often big wimps.

Some of these folks are genuinely conservative people. But the moment they get to Washington, they see the buzzsaw staring them squarely in the face. They're demonized by the media and the Democrats, who relentlessly attack them personally and go after their reputations and their families.

Most of these politicians get the hint, and it's not worth it to them. They might push for an issue here and there, but they've decided they're not walking into that buzzsaw. And unfortunately, this tactic worked for a long time.

But then Trump showed up.

They tried to bully him, smear him and silence him the same way they'd done to every Republican before him. But Trump's response was unlike that of other Republicans who capitulated. He simply said, I'm not having it. And not only was he not having it, he actually returned fire.

The media then did what it had been trained to do and ratcheted up the intensity. And Trump matched that intensity every step of the way. That's where this whole tit-for-tat started — and it's why we are where we are today.

When Trump walks up to a CNN reporter and asks why she's there, I understand why some people say that's petty and not presidential.

You can certainly draw that conclusion. However, if you've watched things deteriorate inside our nation's capital for decades, if you've watched this scenario play out countless times, and you've witnessed Republicans play defense until they eventually decide to quit, I think you see these things differently.

Trump is always on offense. Always. And he's giving back to those in the media exactly what they've earned. Like it or not, my friends, I'm here for it.

Trump is not a principled conservative. I've never pretended that he was. He's a pragmatist. But he ends up on the conservative side of things quite frequently because conservatism is where good reason and logic take you.

Trump is also a man of action. He isn't impressed by emotional speeches. He's moved by results.

That's why Trump said from the podium at the UN, "I do not believe in letting problems fester; they only become harder to solve."

Back in Washington, Vice President Vance's fraud task force announced it's stopping Obamacare enrollment for about 750,000 people it says were fraudulently signed up. It estimates this action will save taxpayers $2.2 billion.

That's only one tiny piece of a dumpster fire that's been burning out of control in our government for a long time.

Average politicians ignored these things, swept them under the rug, and kicked the can down the road for the next generation to deal with. But Trump and his administration want to solve these problems — and that's a very good thing.

I know there's a lot of talk about who the next Republican nominee will be, and that matters a lot. But whoever it is, they will not be like Donald Trump.

And politicians who try to emulate everything about Trump's communication style, from the hand gestures to the way he speaks, indicate they're trying to manipulate people instead of actually learning the main lesson from Trump's presidency.

That lesson is that you can actually play offense instead of perpetually playing defense. You can take it to the people who caused the problems, whether that's the United Nations, the media, the Democrats, the Radical Left, academia, or activists posing as scientists.

I hope our next generation of conservative politicians has learned this.

But then again, who knows? After all, there's only one Donald Trump.

I'm going to miss this when it's over. And I think a lot of other Americans will, too.

Conservative, not bitter.
Todd

The Associated Press — The President's exchange with CNN on his way into the UN, and what Kaitlan Collins said about it afterward.

The White House — The lines from the speech on sovereignty, mass migration, the Human Rights Council and letting problems fester.

The Hill — What he said about Cuba right before the Cuban delegation walked out.

WION — His call for every member of the International Criminal Court to resign from it.

PBS NewsHour — PolitiFact's fact-check of the speech, if you want to see how the other side is reading it.

ABC News — The Vice President's fraud task force pulling about 750,000 enrollments out of Obamacare.

Open Doors — The numbers on Christians killed for their faith, and why Nigeria is at the center of it.

One part of President Trump's speech deserves more attention than it's getting.

He said the UN's top human rights officials spend their time criticizing the United States "for protecting our children from transgender [mutilation]" (Trump said “mutilization”) and for enforcing our immigration laws. Meanwhile, he said, "the craven hypocrites of the Human Rights Council have little to say about the persecution of Christians."

Christian persecution around the world is real, and the numbers are staggering.

Open Doors, which tracks the persecution of Christians around the world, counted 4,849 Christians killed for their faith between October 2024 and September 2025. Of those, 3,490 were in Nigeria.

That means more than 70 percent of all Christians killed for their faith in that time period were in Nigeria. In fact, more Christians were killed for their faith in Nigeria than in the rest of the world combined.

These are people killed for believing in Jesus Christ. For showing up to church. Villages attacked, pastors targeted, families driven out of their homes.

And the people whose job title literally includes the words "human rights" would rather lecture America about how we handle transgender policy for kids.

We can handle that issue in our own country, the way our we as voters decide to handle it. That's what a sovereign nation does. It is not the UN's job.

Some people would even tell you that what's being done to transgender youth in America is worse than what's happening to Christians in Nigeria. That is absolutely reprehensible, and it's a lie straight from the pits of hell.

The lunatics running the United Nations should stop lecturing America about letting young people physically mutilate their bodies, and focus their attention instead on the systematic slaughtering of Christians in places like Nigeria.

In this clip I talk about what happened to Republicans for years. The media came after them, they went on defense, and eventually most of them just lost the desire to fight.

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