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Making the U.N. Relevant Again: How Trump is Shaking Up the Organization’s Operation
We've been on the job a couple of months and obviously the president the first year into his term.
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Making the U.N. Relevant Again: How Trump is Shaking Up the Organization’s Operation
The UN has already agreed to cut over 2,600 bureaucratic positions, bureaucrats out of its headquarters, a 15% overall budget cut, and a quarter, 25% of its peacekeepers around the world.
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Making the U.N. Relevant Again: How Trump is Shaking Up the Organization’s Operation
So we're cutting, we're doging, we're going to get them back to basics in line with the president's vision.
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Making the U.N. Relevant Again: How Trump is Shaking Up the Organization’s Operation
Yeah, I mean, you know the Trump foreign policy doctrine better than anyone you've been there from day one, and it sounds like you think that the United Nations can actually be a place where you help
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Making the U.N. Relevant Again: How Trump is Shaking Up the Organization’s Operation
carry out that doctrine and create an America first, you know, peace presidency across the country or across the world?
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Making the U.N. Relevant Again: How Trump is Shaking Up the Organization’s Operation
Yeah, look, again, we've got to clean it up and we've got a clean house.
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Making the U.N. Relevant Again: How Trump is Shaking Up the Organization’s Operation
But it is a place where other countries can and should contribute.
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Making the U.N. Relevant Again: How Trump is Shaking Up the Organization’s Operation
It's a place where everybody can and should try to work things out diplomatically first.
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Making the U.N. Relevant Again: How Trump is Shaking Up the Organization’s Operation
before you have any kind of conflict.
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Making the U.N. Relevant Again: How Trump is Shaking Up the Organization’s Operation
And importantly, you have all these global standard setting bodies from AI to space to shipping.
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Making the U.N. Relevant Again: How Trump is Shaking Up the Organization’s Operation
We don't want them working against us.
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Making the U.N. Relevant Again: How Trump is Shaking Up the Organization’s Operation
We want them working for American industries and American businesses.
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Making the U.N. Relevant Again: How Trump is Shaking Up the Organization’s Operation
Yeah.
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Making the U.N. Relevant Again: How Trump is Shaking Up the Organization’s Operation
And it sounds like you're, you know, putting your best effort to give a good faith effort there.
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Making the U.N. Relevant Again: How Trump is Shaking Up the Organization’s Operation
But at the same time, you've had your own drama.
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Making the U.N. Relevant Again: How Trump is Shaking Up the Organization’s Operation
I mean, I remember the Cuban ambassador making a show out of disrupting one of your speeches.
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Making the U.N. Relevant Again: How Trump is Shaking Up the Organization’s Operation
Does it feel like you're operating in hostile territory every day at the United Nations?
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Making the U.N. Relevant Again: How Trump is Shaking Up the Organization’s Operation
You know, there are days where I think that the tribes of the Middle East, Afghanistan are easier than here.
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Making the U.N. Relevant Again: How Trump is Shaking Up the Organization’s Operation
I'm a Green Beret by background.
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Making the U.N. Relevant Again: How Trump is Shaking Up the Organization’s Operation
I've served all over the world.