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Article snippet: UNITED NATIONS — It was hardly a surprise that Donald J. Trump, the New York real estate impresario-turned-leader of the free world, would mix awkwardly with the highly scripted, scrupulously diplomatic crowd that converges here for the United Nations General Assembly. Turtle Bay, the embassy-heavy enclave where the United Nations sits, is not President Trump’s kind of neighborhood. As the president wrapped up his first visit to the United Nations, meeting a battery of leaders from South Korea to Ukraine, his performance showed a man pulled between the imperatives of policing his tone and a temptation to shake up the proceedings with plain talk, parochial humor and well-aimed mockery. At home, these two sides of Mr. Trump have become a familiar motif. But this time, he was playing on a much grander stage, his utterances simultaneously translated into dozens of languages for an audience unaccustomed to his improvisational style. His jokes about Manhattan real estate fell on deaf ears, and his mangled reference to an African country occurred in front of that country’s leader. “Nambia’s health care system is increasingly self-sufficient,” Mr. Trump observed at a lunch on Wednesday for African leaders, kicking up a storm of derisory speculation on Twitter about whether he was conflating Namibia and Zambia or Gambia. (The White House later clarified that he meant Namibia.) “Rocket Man is on a suicide mission,” he declared Tuesday, very deliberately from the rostrum of... Link to the full article to read more