New Delhi, Sept. 27 -- Make of it what you will: A world where the president of the most powerful nation can tell off, discredit, even gaslight fellow heads of state-from the podium of the top multilateral body-while unabashedly tooting his own Trump-et.

In the post-truth spectacle that was his UN General Assembly speech, Donald Trump ushered America into a golden age, dismissed climate change as a "con job", claimed "illegal aliens" (illegal immigrants) were destroying nations, and declared he deserved a Nobel Peace Prize for ending seven wars-only lamenting that the Russia-Ukraine conflict didn't make the list.

Now, we all know he is prone to speaking his (self-declared "really smart") mind, going off script, being dramatic, stretchin...