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PRESIDENT TRUMP on Monday spent his first United Nations address trashing the United Nations — while touting one of his properties that sits across the street from its Manhattan headquarters.

He also teased his looming decision about the U.S. stance on the Iran nuclear deal, which will likely be the most consequential move to emerge from his week stacked with UN meetings.

“In recent years, the United Nations has not reached its full potential because of bureaucracy and mismanagement,” Trump said at a morning forum about reforming the UN.

“While the United Nations on a regular budget has increased by 140% and its staff has more than doubled since 2000, we are not seeing the results in line with this investment.”

Trump urged the UN to focus “more on people and less on bureaucracy” and to change its “business as usual,” though he laid out few specifics for reforms he would like to see.

Even so, Trump gave no indication that he would weaken U.S. support for the 193-nation organization.

He also earned support from UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, who said he shares Trump’s view that the organization has fallen short of its potential. United States UN Ambassador Nikki Haley backed up Trump by saying the UN had to become more “action-oriented,” and she praised the group’s recent approval of sanctions on North Korea.

Trump began his debut address with a plug for his nearby Trump World Tower.

“I actually saw great potential across the street, to be honest with you, and it’s only for the reason that the United Nations was here that that turned out to be such a successful project,” he said.

Trump completed the residential building in 2001, and its 45th floor has been purchased by Saudi Arabia, which uses it for part of the Saudi Mission to