It has been 19 years since the late Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez took to the podium at the United Nations and denounced US president George W Bush’s aggressive 2006 speech to the world body by claiming “the devil was here” and “it still smells of sulphur”.

No international leader has yet taken that approach towards Donald Trump’s speech on Tuesday that kicked off this year’s General Assembly session, although European leaders would consider themselves justified in expressing irritation over the US President’s claim that “your countries are going to hell ”.

Trump’s meandering address covered much ground, but his comments on the evils of immigration challenged the President’s later contention in his speech that he has always been “right about everything”. Because at the very mome

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