In his address, he told the leaders of member states that the organization had failed to contribute to peace deals in recent years.
“I ended seven wars, dealt with the leaders of each and every one of these countries, and never even received a phone call from the United Nations offering to help in finalizing the deal,” he said.
“All they seem to do is write a really strongly worded letter and then never follow that letter up,” he said. “It’s empty words, and empty words don’t solve war.”
The president also criticized the U.N. for “funding an assault on Western countries and their borders” by promoting and aiding illegal immigration into the United States.
Regarding U.N. actions involving so-called climate change Trump said that, “The entire globalist concept of asking successful industrialized nations to inflict pain on themselves and radically disrupt their entire societies must be rejected completely and totally, and it must be immediate.”
Trump’s comments reflect a broader approach by his administration, which over the past eight months has taken multiple actions to move away from the United Nations.
Moving Away From Key UN Projects
The most notable sign of this is the limiting of America’s involvement in the overarching U.N. plan for human development, known as the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
Adopted in 2015 by the U.N. General Assembly, the 17 global goals in the 2030 Agenda were described as “a shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and the planet.”
The goals touch every part of human life from production and consumption to climate, health care, education, and the environment.
On his first day in office, Trump signed an executive order titled Putting America First in International Environmental Agreements.
Among other directives, the president ended U.S. support for all international climate agreements, including the U.N. Paris Agreement, “effective immediately.” He also ordered the defunding of financial commitments made by the United States in relation to that agreement.
U.S. envoy Edward Heartney restated the new U.S. position at a U.N. General Assembly meeting in March.
“Although framed in neutral language, Agenda 2030 and the SDGs [Sustainable Development Goals] advance a program of soft global governance that is inconsistent with U.S. sovereignty and adverse to the rights and interests of Americans,” said Heartney, then-counselor for Economic and Social Affairs at the U.S. Mission to the U.N.
“Put simply, globalist endeavors like Agenda 2030 and the SDGs lost at the ballot box,” he said. “Therefore, the United States rejects and denounces the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals, and it will no longer reaffirm them as a matter of course.”
Mandy Gunasekara, former chief of staff for the Environmental Protection Agency and chief architect of the U.S. withdrawal, said exiting from U.N. climate agendas was crucial for the country.
“Withdrawing from the job-killing Paris Climate Accord was a critical step in rejecting globalist frameworks that undermine U.S. prosperity,” she told The Epoch Times.
“Further decoupling from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the foundation of these anti-American climate initiatives, would strengthen our sovereignty and unleash our economic potential,” said Gunasekara, whose efforts were praised by the president in a July Truth Social post.
In July, the administration announced that in addition to withdrawing from the World Health Organization (WHO), it was also rejecting the organization’s proposed amendments to the International Health Regulations.
The proposed amendments “require countries to establish systems of risk communications so that the WHO can implement unified public messaging globally,” U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said in a video statement. “That opens the door to the kind of narrative management, and propaganda, and censorship that we saw during the CV pandemic.”
The United States “can cooperate with other nations without jeopardizing our civil liberties, without undermining our Constitution, and without ceding away America’s treasured sovereignty.”
In late July, the State Department announced a U.S. exit from the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
“UNESCO works to advance divisive social and cultural causes and maintains an outsized focus on the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, a globalist, ideological agenda for international development at odds with our America First foreign policy,” the Department of State said in a press release.
A spokesman for the State Department told The Epoch Times that the 2030 Agenda is not consistent with American sovereignty and is contrary to the rights and interests of the American people.
The spokesman said, with that in mind, the U.S. government will no longer reaffirm the goals in future U.N. resolutions and measures.
And in August,, the Trump administration criticized the U.N. International Maritime Organization’s efforts to impose global taxes on shipping, calling its proposed framework “a global carbon tax on Americans levied by an unaccountable U.N. organization.”
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