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In today’s issue:

• Trump to UN: ‘Your countries are going to hell’
• POTUS-Dem shutdown meeting canceled
• Secret Service thwarts potential cellular blackout
• Medical experts skewer Trump’s Tylenol-autism claims
• Sinclair, Nexstar won’t air Jimmy Kimmel’s return

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🌎 IN NYC

This has been a tense one to watch:

President Trump bashed the United Nations while speaking in front of the group today.

“It’s time to end the open experiment of open borders,” Trump told the room of world leaders, touting his own immigration policies. “I’m really good at doing this stuff. Your countries are going to hell.”

That wasn’t his only public critique.

“I ended seven wars, helped with the leaders of each and every one of these countries and never even received a phone call from the United Nations offering to help in finalizing the deal,” Trump said in his remarks.

“All I got from the United Nations is … a bad escalator and a bad teleprompter,” Trump said. 📹 Watch the clip

📹 The escalator had abruptly stopped while he and first lady Melania Trump walked onto it, while the president started his speech by saying his teleprompter didn’t work.

Other top moments:

• On climate change: Trump also claimed climate change was “the greatest con job ever perpetuated on the world,” bashing efforts to reduce carbon emissions and move toward clean energy. “All of these predictions made by the United Nations and many others, often for bad reasons, were wrong,” Trump said.

• On his own poll numbers: “I was very proud to see this morning I have the highest poll numbers I’ve ever had. Part of it is what we’ve done on the border. I guess the other part is what we’ve done on the economy,” he said, bashing former President Biden by name.

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➤ SCARY TIDBIT — THERE COULD HAVE BEEN A DANGEROUS CELLULAR BLACKOUT:

The New York Times reports that the Secret Service discovered sophisticated equipment near the United Nations that was capable of crippling cellular networks.

More than 100,000 SIM cards and 300 servers, to be exact. “One official said the network was capable of sending 30 million text messages per minute, anonymously. The official said the agency had never before seen such an extensive operation.”

⏱️ IN CONGRESS

The shutdown drama intensifies:

President Trump says he has

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