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President Trump suggested on Wednesday that the United States could withhold foreign aid for countries that vote in favor of a United Nations resolution calling on the U.S. to withdraw its recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital.
Speaking at a Cabinet meeting, Trump echoed a comment made U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley a day earlier, saying that the U.S. would take stock of the countries that voted for the resolution, which is set to go before the U.N. General Assembly on Thursday.
"I like the message that Nikki sent yesterday at the United Nations for 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," he said.
"They take hundreds of millions of dollars and even billions of dollars, and then they vote against us. Well, we're watching those votes," he added. "Let them vote against us, well save a lot. We don't care."
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/365825-trump-suggests-us-will-cut-off-aid-for-countries-that-vote-for-un
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)get the red out
(13,468 posts)They welcome the investment opportunities.
FarCenter
(19,429 posts)Irish_Dem
(47,324 posts)The old Sino-Soviet bloc rises again.
America falls to second or third place.
spanone
(135,861 posts)NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)This petty and punitive act only serves to diminish the US. It opens the door for Russia and China to step-in to the void. We lose respect. We lose a strategic advantage. We lose the ability to guide and influence the various situations in each country and region.
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Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)Apparently being despised translates to "respect" in Deplorableze.
Freethinker65
(10,036 posts)NCDem777
(458 posts)peggysue2
(10,839 posts)even our UN representation will be mirrored after the Bully in the WH, the Shout Loudly and Carry a Little Stick theory in Foreign Relations.
Make it Stop
Vinca
(50,302 posts)LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,591 posts)It's like a wet dream from them. Not only do they control the U.S. Middle East policy, but by extension they can whip the rest of the nations in line through their control of the Orange One.
Russia has hold of one of Donnie Two Scoops' balls, AIPAC has a death grip on the other. Hillary and President Obama reside in the depths of his mind, where his greatest fears lie. And surrounding all this is his fragile ego, which can be triggered by as little as a tweet by Fox and Friends or a comment by Hannity.
And God forbid if the North Korean leader calls him "old."