Tenure is a good idea if used sparingly as a reward for exceptional thinkers.
Don't give an idiot a job for life.
And remember to support Democracy.
Posted on 09/26/2025 6:41:41 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Trump blasted the UN as corrupt, anti-American, and obsessed with “woke nonsense,” vowing to cut funding while pushing it to focus on peace and real security.
During his address to the United Nations General Assembly this week, President Trump denounced the UN for its uselessness in ending wars, stating that the world organization is not living up to its potential and pointedly asked, “What is the purpose of the United Nations?”
This is a question many Americans have asked recently as they watched President Trump and his foreign policy team try to end wars around the world while the UN did nothing but hold do-nothing meetings, issue “empty words” about global conflicts, and pass anti-Israel resolutions.
This, of course, is not a new problem. The UN has been corrupt and strongly anti-U.S. and anti-Israel for most of its existence. Like President Trump, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Jeane Kirkpatrick once condemned the UN for the “bizarre reversal” of its founding intent to resolve conflicts. During the Cold War, the UN was dominated by an anti-Western/anti-Israel Third World-Soviet bloc alliance. Today, it is dominated by China and woke anti-U.S./anti-Israel ideologies.
Trump said his exasperation with the UN has also been driven by its obsession with climate change and “the failed experiment of open borders.” The president stated that these issues are destroying many nations.
Trump called climate change the “greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world” and “the green energy scam.” He also slammed UN aid to migrants, claiming the world organization is “funding an assault on Western countries,” and noted that the UN in 2024 “budgeted $372 million in cash assistance to support an estimated 624,000 migrants journeying into the United States.” The president concluded, “It’s time to end the failed experiment of open borders.”
Although Trump’s views on these topics are commonly held in the U.S., they are sacrilege at the UN and were received with gasps and grumbling in the General Assembly Hall—a clear sign of how out of touch the United Nations is with the American people.
Trump had harsh words for many nations that are making it harder to end the wars in Gaza and Ukraine. He criticized moves by several states to recognize a Palestinian state as rewarding Hamas. The president also criticized nations that are buying energy from Russia, noting that “China and India are the primary funders of the ongoing [Ukraine] war by continuing to purchase Russian oil. But inexcusably, even NATO countries have not cut off much Russian energy and Russian energy products.”
Trump’s frustration with the UN has led his administration to reduce U.S. funding and withdraw from several UN agencies. The administration is withholding part of America’s 2025 UN dues. This includes a congressional rescissions package passed in July that pulled back approximately $1 billion in previously approved UN funding and an August 2025 proposal to withhold over $1.4 billion for UN dues and peacekeeping operations.
The administration’s 2026 budget proposes more cuts in U.S. funding for UN peacekeeping and pauses other UN contributions.
The Trump administration has also withdrawn from the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC), the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), and the China-controlled World Health Organization (WHO). The Trump administration has also cut off funding for the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), an organization accused of backing Hamas.
Ambassador Waltz Suggests a Way Ahead for Trump 2.0 and the United Nations
Michael Waltz, President Trump’s newly confirmed ambassador to the United Nations, expanded on the president’s criticisms when he said in response to a press question on what changes are needed at the UN, “They need to stop all of this woke nonsense.” Waltz explained that the United Nations has seven agencies focused on climate change and formed a “George Floyd Commission” to investigate the massive riots in the U.S. during the summer of 2020. Ambassador Waltz said the UN must “get back to basics” by working to stop and prevent wars. He also called on the UN to start helping President Trump craft peace deals.
But Waltz indicated that despite the UN’s many flaws, it still has value for the U.S.
According to Waltz, there needs to be one place in the world where all nations can get together and talk. He noted that President Trump had 150 world leaders in attendance at his UN General Assembly speech, listening to his vision on immigration, energy independence, and world peace.
Ambassador Waltz said that the UN headquarters in New York City is beneficial for U.S. peace efforts because it has made the city a place where U.S. diplomats can engage with several countries that do not have embassies in Washington but maintain diplomatic missions to the UN, such as Venezuela and North Korea.
Overall, Waltz stressed that the UN should be a forum where the Trump administration “can get things done” to promote peace.
I believe Ambassador Waltz previewed what the second Trump administration’s strategy on the UN will be. It is not going to withdraw from the world organization, except for a handful of exceptionally biased and corrupt UN agencies. Trump officials will fight corruption and politicization in the UN with tough rhetoric and by withholding U.S. funding. I expect Waltz to lead an aggressive U.S. effort in all UN organizations to end woke ideology and promote ethical and responsible management.
Waltz indicated that, despite its many flaws, the Trump administration sees the United Nations as a useful forum for discussion and to promote U.S. peace efforts and national security policies. I believe this is the right approach. I look forward to President Trump using the UN General Assembly next year to press world leaders to support his peace efforts and to call them out again on the radical climate change agenda, out-of-control migration, and other woke policies.
What is it with all of the woke idiocy?
No.
The UN is an obsolete nut roll. I can’t believe that all of those turd world clowns walked out on Israel today. Those bass turds are being paid to work on those kinds of problems not to stand up and look like the cowards that they are as they slink their way out while clapping for their ignorance. UN Third Worlders suck. It’s time to close that house of ill repute down.
The UN has outlived it’s usefullness … period! The sooner we are out, the better.
Garbage gathering?
Evict the UN from NYC and convert the UN building to Trump Tower.
I guess the United “Nations” never really got the main idea, then fully hallucinated into a “United Planet” focus with One World Government. That required whatever steps needed to rid the world of western, christian, liberty-loving states. (Desert-based, fake religious entities exempt of course)
They almost made it there, Imagine if 2024 was stolen like 2020 and Barry Hussein (puppetmaster) as U.N. chief with his creepy minions placed in critical roles.
The Hand of God gave us a chance to forestall Book of Revelation times (apocalypse), at least for a while, IMHO
From the UN Charter:
Article 41
The Security Council may decide what measures not involving the use of armed force are to be employed to give effect to its decisions, and it may call upon the Members of the United Nations to apply such measures. These may include complete or partial interruption of economic relations and of rail, sea, air, postal, telegraphic, radio, and other means of communication, and the severance of diplomatic relations.
Article 42
Should the Security Council consider that measures provided for in Article 41 would be inadequate or have proved to be inadequate, it may take such action by air, sea, or land forces as may be necessary to maintain or restore international peace and security. Such action may include demonstrations, blockade, and other operations by air, sea, or land forces of Members of the United Nations.
Article 43
All Members of the United Nations, in order to contribute to the maintenance of international peace and security, undertake to make available to the Security Council, on its call and in accordance with a special agreement or agreements, armed forces, assistance, and facilities, including rights of passage, necessary for the purpose of maintaining international peace and security.
Such agreement or agreements shall govern the numbers and types of forces, their degree of readiness and general location, and the nature of the facilities and assistance to be provided.
The agreement or agreements shall be negotiated as soon as possible on the initiative of the Security Council. They shall be concluded between the Security Council and Members or between the Security Council and groups of Members and shall be subject to ratification by the signatory states in accordance with their respective constitutional processes.
Article 44
When the Security Council has decided to use force it shall, before calling upon a Member not represented on it to provide armed forces in fulfilment of the obligations assumed under Article 43, invite that Member, if the Member so desires, to participate in the decisions of the Security Council concerning the employment of contingents of that Member’s armed forces.
Article 45
In order to enable the United Nations to take urgent military measures, Members shall hold immediately available national air-force contingents for combined international enforcement action. The strength and degree of readiness of these contingents and plans for their combined action shall be determined within the limits laid down in the special agreement or agreements referred to in Article 43, by the Security Council with the assistance of the Military Staff Committee.
https://www.un.org/en/about-us/un-charter/full-text
Article 19
A Member of the United Nations which is in arrears in the payment of its financial contributions to the Organization shall have no vote in the General Assembly if the amount of its arrears equals or exceeds the amount of the contributions due from it for the preceding two full years. The General Assembly may, nevertheless, permit such a Member to vote if it is satisfied that the failure to pay is due to conditions beyond the control of the Member.
Article 51
Nothing in the present Charter shall impair the inherent right of individual or collective self-defence if an armed attack occurs against a Member of the United Nations, until the Security Council has taken measures necessary to maintain international peace and security. Measures taken by Members in the exercise of this right of self-defence shall be immediately reported to the Security Council and shall not in any way affect the authority and responsibility of the Security Council under the present Charter to take at any time such action as it deems necessary in order to maintain or restore international peace and security.
Article 27
Each member of the Security Council shall have one vote.
Decisions of the Security Council on procedural matters shall be made by an affirmative vote of nine members.
Decisions of the Security Council on all other matters shall be made by an affirmative vote of nine members including the concurring votes of the permanent members; provided that, in decisions under Chapter VI, and under paragraph 3 of Article 52, a party to a dispute shall abstain from voting.
There are woke people in many countries. Common sense people in Africa and Asia and elsewhere find it convenient to send these woke of their county off to New York so they are not a distraction in their home country.
This is a common tactic throughout history. A loud voice on your own side is a distraction. So he is appointed ambassador to the honored diplomatic post of Antartica.
A loud voice in a fortune 100 company is a distraction from the mission of the company. So that voice is promoted to head the important department of doing nothing.
This is the role of the UN... a home for those who are a distraction from the real decisions.
We need to turn the United Nations into the Untied Nations.
How, in the 21st century, can the UN justify having its headquarters in a First World, majority white, country? They need to find a more suitable location. Maybe Nairobi or Lagos.
An interesting take on things. It surely seems a theater for the less talented.
Given that diplomacy can occur, nation to nation, directly, and given the large number of Muzzie nations in the UN as one of a number of "democratic" problems -- given the "votes" in UN things -- it surely seems the United Nations are -- by simple naming -- not Nations United.
In other than political theater. And, as you say, "a home for those who are a distraction from the real decisions." All the more reason to see the "home" move to somewhere else.
How about putting UN HQ in Ouagadougou, the capitol of Burkina Faso.
GREAT comments BUMP!
Good point. African and Asian countries are a lot more tightly controlled and have little patience for the woke stuff, so why not send local wokesters off to the UN and other foreign posts? They can vote for and sign all kinds of declarations that the regime back home has no intention with complying with.
It’s more likely that the UN would move to Asia first. No more New York as titular capital of the world. End of the American Century. End of the European era. Pax Sinica.
Rhetorical question of the century?
Anyone remember a certain speech by a former US ambassador to the UN, the late Charles Lichenstein...?
I want to wave a not so fond farewell as the delegates sail off into the sunset.
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