Biden will use last speech to UN to say he has restored US leadership on world stage

President Joe Biden will use his final address to the United Nations General Assembly to highlight how his efforts to “restore American leadership on the world stage” have produced “results” and “real achievements for the American people and the world,” according to a senior administration official.

Biden is set to address the UN gathering on Tuesday at 10.00 am, the second day of the 79th annual gathering of the international organization. Because he has withdrawn from the 2024 presidential election and is not seeking a second term, it will be his last chance to deliver remarks before the yearly assemblage of world leaders.

He is also set to speak leader in the day to the Bloomberg Global Business Forum and deliver an address that is expected to make the case for a future that focuses on building up US manufacturing and infrastructure and rebuilding the American middle class.

On Monday, he dropped by the Clinton Global Initiative where he was awarded the CGI’s Global Citizen Award from former president Bill Clinton. He is also scheduled to speak to the Global Coalition to Address Synthetic Drug Threats later on Tuesday.

A senior administration official told reporters that Biden’s schedule for the General Assembly “reflect[s] his vision for a world where countries come together to solve big problems.”

“This stands in contrast to some of our competitors, who have a more cynical and transactional worldview,” the official added, in what appeared to be a thinly veiled swipe not just at the Republican presidential nominee, former president Donald Trump, but the leaders of authoritarian countries for whom Trump has expressed admiration.

Those countries, he said, “interpret their self-interest very narrowly and don’t work