From Bolsonaro to Sisi to Erdogan, the early speaking lineup at the U.N. General Assembly is replete with autocratic leaders.
President Donald Trump kicks off the main session of the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday alongside a rogue’s gallery of dictators, populist lectern-bangers and would-be autocrats.
“Rising authoritarianism is one of the gravest challenges that defenders of human rights face every day,” Kenneth Roth, executive director of Human Rights Watch, said in a statement. “It’s essential that world leaders push back against the lineup of anti-rights crusaders who will open this year’s U.N. General Assembly.”
Story continuesThis year, the Brazilian president happens to be the recently elected Jair Bolsonaro, a right-wing populist who has spoken admiringly of the dictatorship that once ruled in his country. While past American presidents have often cozied up to one autocrat or another, Trump has expressed his fondness for authoritarian leaders with a brazenness rarely employed by his predecessors.
To critics of his leadership style, Trump’s appointment of his daughter and son-in-law to top government positions and his descriptions of media outlets as the “enemy of the people” are alarmingly similar to the actions of autocrats. Even if Trump does speak extensively Tuesday about promoting democracy, his past actions and comments are likely to undermine his credibility on the issue, observers say. Also damaging to his credibility is how frequently Trump changes his mind.
The trend began well before Trump, mirroring a growing partisan divide in the U.S., but his “ongoing attacks on the rule of law, fact-based journalism, and other principles and norms of democracy threaten further decline,” the group said.
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