Posted on 09/18/2017 12:46:26 PM PDT by Oshkalaboomboom
President Trump used his inaugural address at the United Nations on Monday to criticize the world body for not living up to its “potential” because of bureaucracy and urged member nations to reject “business as usual” and take “bold stands.”
“In recent years, the United Nations has not reached its full potential because of bureaucracy and mismanagement, ” Trump said at the 72-year-old organization during a meeting on reforms.
Despite a ballooning budget and a doubling of staff since 2000, Trump said, “We are not seeing the results in line with this investment” and encouraged UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to focus more on people than bureaucracy.
“We seek a United Nations that regains the trust of people from around the world,” the president said in his tightly scripted five-minute address. “In order to achieve this, the UN must hold every level of management accountable, protect whistle-blowers and focus on results rather than on process.”
“We encourage all member states to look at ways to take bold stands at the United Nations with an eye toward changing business as usual and not being beholden to ways of the past, which were not working,” he said, pledging the US would be a full partner in the reform efforts.
Trump, who will address the General Assembly on Tuesday, also said none of the 193 member nations should shoulder a “disproportionate share of the burden — militarily or financially.”
And he called for creating “clearly defined goals and metrics for evaluating the success” of the UN’s peacekeeping mission around the globe.
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The UN are nothing more than a bunch of Jew Hating leftists..if I were speaking in front of them I would tell them to go F themselves
Should have told them to hit the road!
He’s right to criticize it, but I don’t think it has positive potential to live up to.
I think it has negative potential to live down to, and in that I think it’s a lot more successful than most politicians grasp.
End it.
They are also a bunch of third-worlders who like "stickin' it to the man" (the man being the USA).
He did. He just couched it in terms of management progress. The corrupt UN will never achieve that
Yeah that too but their hatred for Jews pisses me off just as much
Make ‘em squirm!
Today’s announcement! US base in Israel:
https://mobile.twitter.com/calev_i24/status/909844536490303488/video/1
“We seek a United Nations that regains the trust of people from around the world,”
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Nice goal, never happen.
It was established with the goal of one-world government.
WTF?
Why?
Quick, get out the "unbecoming of his office" meme! And blame the UN's problems on Zionist occupation of Palestine.
great idea
Perhaps this was to set the stage for the u.s. withdrawing from the UN in the near future.
darn right. We've had enough of a do-nothing, judgemental UN. Get with it or get gone.
man that guy has some hairy arms.
Bingo. Nail meet hammer.
How dare he demand accountability for our tax dollars.
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