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 UNs peacekeeping mission around the globe.
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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.
A great film!
Because the US has been a stupid nation, run by stupid globalists. The Bush and Obama regimes allowed the expansion of the UN unfettered.
Thanks for the links. Hadn’t heard about this yet.
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.
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.
Trump’s gift to the UN maybe??
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
US out of UN
UN out of US
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.
Winning!
Our contribution to the peacekeeping budget was cut by $500M as soon as Nikki Haley got there.
Why? Obama sent them more money, so they could spread the wealth to more cronies and family.
I’m gonna bet that the Translation equipment was turned OFF AND NOBODY HEAR PRESIDENT TRUMP!!!
Somebody help here, please....
Does “SLAM” replace “constructive criticism “ in
today’s MSM lingo?
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.
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