Trump’s UN speech and talks TSN opens from New York

Sep 18

TSN reports Trump appealing to Putin before his UN address, threatening tariffs under the Graham legislation and anticipating an Iran agreement. Olha Koshelenko explains the delay to the Trump–Zelenskyy meeting, recalls the phone call that helped arrange it and describes Ukraine’s winter air-defense priorities and possible SAMP/T missile production discussed with Macron. TSN also airs Macron saying his conversation with Trump included urgent air-defense missiles for Ukraine and possible initiatives for an energy moratorium; no agreed moratorium or completed delivery is reported. Koshelenko recounts Trump’s concern about diesel prices and Russian refinery attacks. At this stage the Trump–Zelenskyy meeting is still awaited.

In his September 22 UN address, Trump says Congress passed powerful new tariff legislation named for Lindsey Graham and that he signed it the previous week. TSN recalls this claim and describes authority to impose tariffs of up to 100 percent on buyers of Russian oil and gas. Vremya carries the signing claim while emphasizing that Trump leaves use of the powers conditional. TSN’s September 23 Xi-visit preview again says the law was signed last week and names China and India as major Russian-energy buyers. Alongside Zelenskyy, Trump discusses the legislation’s potential sanctions and anticipated talks with Xi; that exchange does not supply a signing date. These earlier reports provide no exact signing day, legislation text or confirmation that the tariffs were imposed. The record follows the reported earlier signing and keeps the September 22 public threat as a separate occurrence. TSN's October 8 retrospective explicitly dates the reported signing to September 18 and again describes authority for tariffs of up to one hundred percent on buyers of Russian energy. This refines the date of the claimed signing only; no legislation text or actual tariff imposition is established by these broadcasts.