Hey Mr Tangerine Man, play a UN song

Barring the jarring fact that he was there, Hey Mr Tangerine Man pretty much stuck to his usual script during his almost hour-long mann ki baat at the UN General Assembly on Tuesday. Blaming UN for pretty much everything - from faulty teleprompter machine and escalator inside the building, to not yet recognising his genius for 'ending seven wars' - HMTM took advantage of a captive UNGA audience to tell them: 'Your countries are going to hell' because of uncontrolled illegal migration. One can safely assume he didn't address Mexico. Bashfully, he said that despite not saying it 'in a braggadocious way', he's been 'right about everything'. Scolding London for having a 'terrible, terrible mayor', he shared a fact yet to be confirmed by Britain: 'Now they want to go to Sharia law.'

In a way, HMTM reflects an America that was, till now, kept mostly hidden from the world: of demolition derbies, disdain for/fear of anything that doesn't look like it, and Bible-thumpers. He described Christianity as the 'most persecuted religion on the planet today'; and green energy as a scam, although he did concede dirty air wafting in ('it blows') from China. Hey Mr Tangerine Man treated UN to a MAGA speech, much like a Klansmen addressing a Civil Rights rally. What was interesting was that no one was cheering. Or, more tellingly, laughing. They should have.