RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/UN: “The Trump administration will not nominate anyone to serve on a United Nations committee on racism, the latest sign of a U.S. retreat from international bodies and traditional human rights priorities. A State Department official said the White House intervened to prevent the expected renomination of a human rights lawyer chosen by former President Barack Obama for the 18-member U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. The official said the Trump administration may simply have run out of time to find a replacement before a deadline. Even so, the official added, ‘it cements the narrative that the Americans just don’t care about these kinds of things anymore.’ A senior Trump administration official, however, insisted otherwise…The move comes at a time when President Donald Trump’s views about race have faced intense criticism, with some prominent Democrats flatly stating that the president is ‘a racist.’”
–Nahal Toosi, “Trump passes on making U.N. racism committee nomination,” Politico, April 12, 2019 4:10 pm