Decoding Trump’s UN Speech: Part 2 — Crime, Migration, and the Fertile Ground for Populism
- john raymond
- Sep 24, 2025
- 2 min read
Trump’s September 23 UN address opened with migration as the spearhead of his attack. In Part 1, we saw how he portrayed the UN as complicit in “border assaults,” weaponizing humanitarian aid as an existential threat to sovereignty.
But his performance did not stop there. He escalated, moving from institutional blame to statistical indictment. He told the chamber that “almost 50%” of German inmates were foreign nationals, that Austria’s prisons were “53%” foreign-born, Greece’s “54%,” and Switzerland’s “72%.” His conclusion was stark: “It’s time to end the failed experiment of open borders.”
This was no policy proposal. It was a carefully chosen cudgel. By reciting raw percentages without context, Trump invited the association of migration with crime, seeding fear in Western electorates and forcing European leaders into a political trap.
The tactic fits a deliberate progression: once the UN is branded as villain, the next step is to prove that its supposed policies produce criminal chaos in the streets of Europe. The institution is delegitimized; the migrants themselves are demonized.
According to the Raymond Method, this move carries a dual purpose...
Pillar One (Regime Security) casts immigrants as internal enemies, bolstering the need for strongman rule.
Pillar Two (Asymmetric Warfare) exploits statistical rhetoric as a weapon, stripping away nuance to amplify anxieties already burning across Europe.
And under the Byzantine Traitor-General paradigm, Trump corners governments: dispute the figures and appear indifferent to public safety, or accept them and validate the nationalist narrative.
The deeper truth is that migration remains the most volatile fault line in European politics. From Berlin to Rome, it has toppled governments, shattered coalitions, and propelled far-right parties from the fringe to the center.
Trump knows this instability well. It is fertile ground for his message. By declaring that European prisons are overrun with migrants, he feeds precisely the narrative that animates nationalist movements.
The result is a one-two punch: in Part 1, institutions are accused of betrayal; in Part 2, migrants themselves are painted as the source of violence and disorder. Together, these arguments seek to accelerate Europe’s populist turn.
The Kremlin benefits most from this shift. A Europe convulsed by nationalist insurgencies cannot act with unity, cannot hold NATO steady, and cannot resist Russian aggression with resolve.
Trump’s statistics were not a throwaway line — they were the deliberate deepening of the wedge. Migration is the fertile ground. Trump’s speech was the plow, turning over that soil, planting the seeds of upheaval, and ensuring that the harvest would feed not the West, but Moscow.
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