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    How Impeachment Is Testing Trump’s Focus

    The president’s first address to the UN was full of fire and fury. Now, as he faces an impeachment inquiry, that tone is gone.
    by Peter Nicholas Sep 25, 2019 5 minutes
    Source: Jonathan Ernst / Reuters

    Updated at 7:12 p.m. ET on September 25, 2019.

    Two years ago, an unpredictable and untested new president gave his first speech at the United Nations General Assembly and left the impression that he might just start World War III.

    So incensed was President Donald Trump over North Korean missile tests that he threatened nuclear annihilation unless its leader, Kim Jong Un, pulled back. Mocking Kim, Trump said in his address: “Rocket Man is on a suicide mission for himself and his regime.” The bellicose tone is now gone, as Trump’s presidency enters a new phase defined by a slow-rolling House impeachment inquiry that has suddenly gained traction.

    In his third appearance at UNGA, Trump is a diminished president whose political survival is in question and

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