President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed a significant executive order withdrawing the United States from the United Nations’ Human Rights Council, as the White House cited a “deep anti-American bias” within the organization. Additionally, the long-awaited actions remove the U.S. from the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees.
Perhaps most significantly, the order demands a review of American involvement in the United Nations Scientific, Education, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the U.N. as a whole.
“So, I’ve always felt that the U.N. has tremendous potential, and it is not living up to that potential right now; it really isn’t,” President Trump said at the Oval Office before signing the sweeping order. Trump went on to blame the globalist organization founded by Nazis and Communists for many of the conflicts the U.S. is currently involved in. “They’ve got to get their act together,” the president added.
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Removing the United States from UNESCO would not be a first; the Reagan administration did so in 1984: “UNESCO has extraneously politicized virtually every subject it deals with,” Gregory Newell, Reagan’s Assistant Secretary for International Organization Affairs, revealed during the first withdrawal. “It has exhibited hostility toward a free society, especially a free market and a free press, and it has demonstrated unrestrained budgetary expansion.” Trump also pulled U.S. involvement in UNESCO in 2017. A decision the Biden administration reversed.
This development follows President Trump’s withdrawal from the U.N. Paris Climate Accords and the World Health Organization. Whether President Trump will follow through with a full withdrawal from the United Nations is yet to be seen, but the lists of reasons to exit and pressure to do so are ever-growing.
