“Don’t blame me.”
That’s what John Kerry, the former U.S. secretary of state, said about President Donald Trump’s speech at the United Nations General Assembly — one that took shots at the U.N., called climate change “the greatest con job ever,” and scorned multilateralism from the global stage.
“The speech speaks for itself, and you know what I’m referring to,” said Kerry, speaking from the stage of the Building Bridges conference in Geneva, Switzerland, on Tuesday. “All in all, though, I left New York with a real sense of optimism.”
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Elissa Miolene
Elissa Miolene reports on USAID and the U.S. government at Devex. She previously covered education at The San Jose Mercury News, and has written for outlets like The Wall Street Journal, San Francisco Chronicle, Washingtonian magazine, among others. Before shifting to journalism, Elissa led communications for humanitarian agencies in the United States, East Africa, and South Asia.
