On September 23, 2025, President Donald Trump stood before the United Nations General Assembly and issued a clarion call that should shake the complacency of the globalist elite: defend free speech and defend Christianity. His remarks made clear that the United States — under his leadership — will not apologize for standing up for the liberties that built Western civilization.
Trump explicitly urged world leaders to “protect religious liberty” and named Christianity as the faith under siege that deserves special attention, tying the plea to the United States’ upcoming 250th anniversary in 2026 as a rebuke to anti-religious, anti-free-speech trends abroad. That framing was not accidental; it was a patriotic reminder that the American experiment still stands for speech, faith, and national sovereignty.
Conservatives should welcome this unapologetic defense of core liberties. For too long, Western institutions have caved to political correctness and censorship, allowing radical ideologies to silence churches, journalists, and ordinary citizens; Mr. Trump’s speech was a necessary course correction and a message of strength.
Unsurprisingly, the speech drew howls from the usual suspects in the media and human-rights outfits, who painted the president as isolationist and cruel for condemning open borders and globalist policies. Those critics miss the point: protecting a nation’s culture and citizens from mass migration and eroding free speech is not cruelty, it is prudence and patriotism in a dangerous era.
The White House framed the address as a rejection of globalist agendas that demand self-harm from successful nations, and Trump laid out a simple agenda—sovereignty, speech, and faith—that resonates with voters tired of elites who kowtow to transnational bureaucrats. If the United States is to lead the free world into its 250th year, it must do so without shrinking from the defense of the institutions that made liberty possible.
Patriots should be clear-eyed: the battle over free speech and religious liberty will define the next decade. The president’s remarks at the U.N. were not just rhetoric; they were an invitation to every sovereign nation to reclaim its identity and defend what remains of Western liberty — an invitation conservatives should answer without apology.
