9/21/2018

TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/UN: “Since U.S. President Donald Trump made his debut at the United Nations a year ago pushing an ‘America First’ policy, he has quit the Iran nuclear deal, the U.N. Human Rights Council and lashed out at some of the closest allies of the United States. Next week at the United Nations, Trump plans to stay on message, touting his drive to protect U.S. sovereignty before world leaders, some of them worried about America’s commitment to the multilateralism that has governed the United Nations since the end of World War Two…In the past year, the United States has also left the U.N. cultural agency, cut funding for the U.N. agency that helps Palestinian refugees and sparked a trade war with China. At a NATO summit in July, Trump threatened that the United States would ‘go its own way’ if members did not spend more on defense. Trump is now surrounded by hawkish advisers more in tune with his world view, such as Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and National Security Adviser John Bolton, after the departure of their predecessors Rex Tillerson and H.R. McMaster, along with former White House economic adviser Gary Cohn.”

Reuters Staff, “At U.N. Podium, Trump to Tout Protecting U.S. Sovereignty,” The New York Times online, September 21, 2018