Hours after Donald Trump was laughed at for bragging in front of world leaders, the President of Iran, Hassan Rouhani, stood at the podium in front of world leaders at the United Nations and said of Trump, without calling him by name:
“It is unfortunate that we are witnessing rulers in the world who think they can… gain popular support through the fomenting of extremist nationalism and racism and through xenophobic tendencies resembling a Nazi disposition.”
Earlier in the day, Donald Trump was speaking to the assembly when he elicited a first, world leaders laughed at him. From The Washington Post.
“The embarrassing exchange came when Trump boasted that his administration had accomplished more over two years than “almost any administration” in American history, eliciting audible guffaws in the cavernous chamber hall.The president appeared startled. “Didn’t expect that reaction,” he said, “but that’s okay.”“He has always been obsessed that people are laughing at the president. From the mid-’80s, he’s said: ‘The world is laughing at us. They think we’re fools,’ ” said Thomas Wright, a Europe analyst at the Brookings Institution. “It’s never been true, but he’s said it about every president. It’s the first time I’m aware of that people actually laughed at a president. I think it is going to drive him absolutely crazy. It will play to every insecurity he has.”