The United Nations has been nothing more than a totalitarian money pit for the world, especially the united States, and now they have thumbed their collective noses once again at the US.
Recently, the United Nations put forth a resolution to rescind President Donald Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
Trump threatened to cut aid to UN members over the Jerusalem vote.
“All of these nations that take our money and then they vote against us at the Security Council or they vote against us, potentially, at the Assembly, they take hundreds of millions of dollars and even billions of dollars and then they vote against us,” Trump said during a cabinet meeting.
“Well, we’re watching those votes,” he added. “Let them vote against us; we’ll save a lot. We don’t care.”
US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley warned that the US would be "taking names" on the vote and wrote a letter to countries asking them to respect the decision of the US to move it's embassy while not demanding others do the same.
“As you consider your vote, I want you to know that the president and US take this vote personally,” Haley wrote.
“To be clear,” she added, “we are not asking that other countries move their embassies to Jerusalem, though we think it would be appropriate. We are simply asking that you acknowledge the historical friendship, partnership and support we have extended and respect our decision about our own embassy.” "This is bullying," Turkey's Minister of Foreign Affairs Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said. "It is unethical to think that our votes are for sale."
Çavuşoğlu added that the U.S. "may be strong, but that does not make you right."Neither does it make those countries right that disagree.
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