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Trump slams the UN in his first UN appearance
NY Post ^ | September 18, 2017 | Mark Moore

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: antonioguterres; europeanunion; portugal; trumpunreform; unreform; untiedstates
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To: SandRat
The UN has been a colossal failure it’s peacekeeping mission around the globe since it's creation.

THE SIEGE OF JADOTVILLE is an excellent movie and illustrates your point in spades. I was surprised at how they depicted Dag Hammarskjöld as quite the weasel.

21 posted on 09/18/2017 1:28:15 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ( "If fascism ever comes to America, it will be called liberalism." --Ronald Reagan)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

A great film!


22 posted on 09/18/2017 1:29:35 PM PDT by Reily
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To: Cowboy Bob

Because the US has been a stupid nation, run by stupid globalists. The Bush and Obama regimes allowed the expansion of the UN unfettered.


23 posted on 09/18/2017 1:32:08 PM PDT by Mozzafiato
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To: ExTexasRedhead

Thanks for the links. Hadn’t heard about this yet.


24 posted on 09/18/2017 1:32:26 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom
In recent years, the United Nations has not reached its full potential because of bureaucracy and mismanagement

God help us if it ever does ... the problem with the UN isn't that it's bureaucratic and mismanaged. The problem with the UN is that it exists.

25 posted on 09/18/2017 1:33:31 PM PDT by NorthMountain
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To: Oshkalaboomboom
I believe he gave them fair warning; but he said it in DiploSpeak - which he did just for fun... MAGA!
26 posted on 09/18/2017 1:33:38 PM PDT by heterosupremacist (Domine Iesu Christe, Filius Dei, miserere me peccatorem!)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

I think President Trump put the UN on notice. Shape up, or ship out, although he didn’t put it in those terms. He said they need to improve their performance, and he said the U.S. would work hand in hand with the UN in achieving that, but underlying all of it, I got the feeling he was implying, that if the UN doesn’t improve in a certain amount of time, that he would have no problem taking more drastic measures.


27 posted on 09/18/2017 1:36:25 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: mass55th

Trump’s gift to the UN maybe??


28 posted on 09/18/2017 1:38:59 PM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

Click The Pic

29 posted on 09/18/2017 1:41:01 PM PDT by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

bureaucrappy and mismanagement, yes indeed

but the real problem is the membership of 57 IslamoNazi-conquered countries

Islam is a giant, dangerorus conspiracy seeking world domination and control. It is the very antithesis of
“peaceful”
as anyone who reads the newspapers or watches the TV news can plainly see, on any day of the week, all year around


30 posted on 09/18/2017 1:41:03 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicans are not born, they're excreted." -- Marcus Tillius Cicero)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

US out of UN
UN out of US


31 posted on 09/18/2017 1:44:21 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

I from the school that says ‘UN out of the US and US out of the UN’

This organization was envisioned by ‘progressive’ presidents like Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt.

The Neocons-RINO’s talk “better management” and “reform” of bureaucracy all the time.

Not the elimination of the bureaucracy and bureaucratic agencies.

The insiders wrote this speech for President Trump.


32 posted on 09/18/2017 1:46:47 PM PDT by Nextrush (Freedom is everybody's business: Remember Pastor Niemoller)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

Winning!


33 posted on 09/18/2017 1:54:41 PM PDT by KevinB (When you drink the water, remember the men or women who dug the well.)
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To: SandRat

Our contribution to the peacekeeping budget was cut by $500M as soon as Nikki Haley got there.


34 posted on 09/18/2017 1:56:05 PM PDT by definitelynotaliberal (I believe it! He's alive! Sweet Jesus!)
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To: Cowboy Bob

Why? Obama sent them more money, so they could spread the wealth to more cronies and family.


35 posted on 09/18/2017 2:00:28 PM PDT by Ingtar (American where the flag and culture offend, but the benefits are demanded.)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom; Jane Long; BlackFemaleArmyCaptain; Black Agnes; djstex; RoosterRedux; ...
I am borrowing this from my buddy poconopundit: This is the MAIN reason that President Trump was elected: To take America FIRST, all others later...
37 posted on 09/18/2017 2:42:43 PM PDT by HarleyLady27 ( "The Force Awakens!!!"...Trump and Pence: MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!)
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To: Chode; All; Oshkalaboomboom

I’m gonna bet that the Translation equipment was turned OFF AND NOBODY HEAR PRESIDENT TRUMP!!!


38 posted on 09/18/2017 3:53:45 PM PDT by mabarker1 (Progress- the opposite of congress)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

Somebody help here, please....

Does “SLAM” replace “constructive criticism “ in
today’s MSM lingo?


39 posted on 09/18/2017 4:25:37 PM PDT by Sivad (NorCal red turf)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

I heard that he wants to “Make the UN Great Again.”

Gak! It was never great. It was always a mistake, a bureaucratic disaster from its conception.


40 posted on 09/18/2017 4:33:15 PM PDT by nonsporting
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