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Making the U.N. Relevant Again: How Trump is Shaking Up the Organization’s Operation
07 Dec 2025
Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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We're swinging, we're swinging hard. We're gonna clean it up and get it focused on the right things. And again, the president's what, nine, 10 peace deals in. We put that international stamp on a number of them. We're sharing the burden, pushing these countries in the right direction, but it's all under his leadership.
That was U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz discussing President Trump's unapologetically America-first approach to international diplomacy and what he argues should be the true purpose of the U.N., promoting peace.
Under the president's direction, Waltz is taking a new, aggressive approach to the international body, demanding a renewed focus on peace and the rejection of what he calls the nonsense that's made the UN increasingly irrelevant over the years. He's also demanding that the organization stop looking the other way when it comes to the persecution of Christians.
In this episode, Daily Wire editor-in-chief Brent Schur sits down with Ambassador Waltz to discuss his mission at the U.N. and President Trump's vision for a more effective, focused foreign policy that protects America's interests. I'm Daily Wire executive editor John Bickley with Georgia Howe. This is a weekend edition of Morning Wire.
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Chapter 2: How is the U.S. changing its approach to the United Nations?
that's meant for the UN. This is what the United Nations was created to do, but also work that the United Nations has proven incapable of doing. So, I mean, what is the goal of changing that? Do you guys still think that the UN can be a force for peace? Yeah, well, he does. President Trump does. I do too. It absolutely needs reform and reforms at the top of our agenda.
And I get it for folks that say, just walk away, turn out the lights. The United States pays for a quarter, 25% of everything here. Here's why I would argue and where the president sees the potential of I would argue against throwing out the baby with the bathwater.
Another fundamental tenet of America First is burden sharing, is other people kind of pulling their weight to establish peace around the world. And so take, for example, my first Security Council resolution was in Haiti. Gangs have taken over Haiti. They're working with the cartels. They're working with the Venezuelans and others.
They're shipping people, guns, drugs all over, not just the Caribbean, but the Middle East, Europe, onto our soil as well. The US was trying to take it all on and on its own. It spent over a billion dollars. We've now shifted that to the UN, and we'll pay a quarter of what we were paying. And other countries like Kenya are
And others are going to come in and try to get a control of these gangs and get control of the situation. We're actually we've rebranded it to call it the gang suppression force and gave it given them much more of an offensive mandate. So whether it's places like Haiti or the absolute humanitarian crisis, that is Sudan or.
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Chapter 3: What challenges does the U.N. face under the current administration?
the President Trump's peace plan in Gaza. We're now going to get an international force in there to keep the peace in Gaza. We got our hostages out. The UN blessed President Trump's peace plan. So sharing the burden and having a mechanism where everyone can come in and do that is also important. We've just got to get it back focused on those peacekeeping and peace enforcement
missions, uh, that they did so well in the past and that they strayed from in recent decades. Yeah. I mean, are you one of these people that has your position changed? Cause when you were in Congress, I mean, you openly advocated for defunding the UN and you'd spotlight a lot of the problems they had.
I mean, I remember the things you said about how they let China influence their handling of the COVID pandemic. Um, Do you no longer think that defunding is an option? Should that be a threat? No. Well, it's composed of 82 agencies, and we need to get out of the ones that aren't going to work for us or work against us. So you mentioned COVID.
We've walked away from WHO, the World Health Organization. UNRWA, the UN agency in Gaza that's been completely infiltrated by Hamas. We walked out of it and defunded that too. The so-called human rights councils that cater to countries like North Korea and Venezuela and Iran, we've walked away from that.
So it's really about focusing our effort on the parts that align with the America First agenda and defunding and walking away from the rest of it and the nonsense. Case in point, there's seven UN agencies focused on climate change. Sit aside the debate of it. At most, you need one, if not none. But you definitely don't need seven. So that's the kind of reform agenda that we're driving here.
We're defunding all kinds of these agencies, again, led by the president with an America First agenda. But there are core pieces that we do need to focus on, case in point. There is an agency that regulates how we do space, telecommunications, global shipping. There's one that actually sets standards for civil aviation around the world. I don't know about you, Brent.
When I land, we fly internationally. I want everybody speaking English, landing the planes the same way, the mechanics train the same way. We want... them aligned with our standards, not China or Russia's standards.
And I guess the last argument that I would make is, again, if we're a peace party, this is a peace president, we should have one place in the world where everybody can talk, where everyone can come together and at least try to hammer things out using diplomacy Either to end wars or prevent wars. I want that American led and in the United States, not in places like Beijing or Moscow.
But I'm 100 percent on board. We've got a clean house. We've been dozing. We've been reforming. One other statistic that I'll throw at you. We've been on the job a couple of months and obviously the president the first year into his term.
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Chapter 4: What is the significance of President Trump's speech at the U.N.?
Someone like her, with her quarter billion followers across all of our platforms, it's an unlikely pairing, didn't see that one coming. But where we can work together to not just put a spotlight and educate people, but to make sure there's real action.
And we've seen the Nigerian government move not fast enough, but move in a better direction in response to the president, in a response to the things that we're doing here. So Look, the UN, it can be a place and a platform to do things like that, whether it's on the persecutions of Christians, human trafficking, or other issues that give voice to the voiceless. Yeah, it is.
It's a testament to how powerful the United Nations could be when it's actually focusing on the right things. And the situation in Nigeria is the right thing. Climate and seven climate organizations, as you pointed out, is just... the wrong thing. Ambassador Waltz, this was so great to talk with you again, and we'll see what you're able to achieve with the United Nations.
I'll take your word for it. all right, well, we're swinging, we're swinging hard. We're going to clean it up and get it focused on the right things. And again, the president's, what, 9, 10 peace deals in. We put that international stamp on a number of them. We're sharing the burden, pushing these countries in the right direction. But it's all under his leadership.
And great to be with you, brother. Thank you.
That was Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief Brent Scherr speaking with U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Mike Waltz. This has been a weekend edition of Morning Wire.
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