United States President Donald Trump made a string of misleading and false claims during his address to the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on 23 September 2025, including many aimed at the European Union and European countries in general.
To determine where the facts lie, Euroverify has taken a look at Trump's assertions.
Addressing the UNGA, Trump attacked the whole continent of Europe for what he called "the unmitigated immigration disaster."
"It's time to end the failed experiment of open borders. You have to end it now. I can tell you, I'm really good at this stuff. Your countries are going to hell," the president said.
According to Eurostat data, the share of non-EU citizens in all 27 member states totalled 6.4% of the overall EU population in 2024, while 9.9% of the population was born outside the bloc.
Compare that with the US, whose foreign-born or immigrant population stood at 15.8% of the total in January 2025.
Trump aimed at illegal migration in particular, but statistics show that this is actually decreasing in the EU.
Frontex, the bloc's border agency, reported 239,000 irregular border crossings in 2024, down by 25% compared to the year before. The numbers continued to fall during the first seven months of 2025.
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