Trump’s appearance at the Security Council came as critics of the U.S. administration took to the floor of the United Nations on Wednesday. In a fiery address from the Security Council, Bolivian President Evo Morales said the U.S. was uninterested in supporting democracies, pointing to its long history of financing coups and supporting dictators. Morales cited the case of Iran.

President Evo Morales: “In 1953, the United States financed, planned and implemented a coup d’état against a democratically elected government, which, in exercise of its legitimate sovereignty, nationalized its oil production, wresting it from the hands of an Anglo-U.S. company. After that, for many decades, the United States supported an authoritarian government which allowed the profits from oil production to line the pockets of transnational companies. This situation endured until the revolution of 1979. And now that Iran has retaken control of its own resources, it is once again the victim of a U.S. siege.”