Trump-World Just Got More Worrisome: Pulls U.S. Out of UN Human Rights Council

Haley at the UN — smug, arrogant, defiant pose just like her boss

(Guess who her boss is)

UN Human Rights Council Chamber in Geneva

(View of the room that Trump wants)

WASHINGTON (Bloomberg and The AP) — The U.S. withdraws from the UN Human Rights Council.

(I note: This marks a dark bleak day for world unity and solidarity among nations).

5:11 pm (June 19, 2018):

Ambassador Nimrata “Nikki” Haley (R-SC) says the U.S. is withdrawing from the UN Human Rights Council, calling it “an organization that is not worthy of its name.”

A year ago she made clear the U.S. would stay in the council only if “essential reforms were achieved,” now she says it's clear those calls for change were not heeded. Haley is decrying the membership of countries like China, Cuba and Venezuela that are themselves accused of rights violations. She says the council also has a “chronic bias against Israel.”

Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE) condemning the withdrawal, is a Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said the decision “sends a clear message that the Trump administration does not intend to lead the world when it comes to human rights.”

Noteworthy: The HR Council also has been a forum for criticism of Trump’s economic policies. In a report on the U.S. due to be submitted to the Human Rights Council, Philip Alston, the UN rapporteur on poverty, said: “Trump’s tax overhaul policy overwhelmingly benefits the wealthy and worsened inequality.” 

That report also says that while the U.S. has long been the most unequal among developed nations, it’s getting worse under Trump, adding: “The policies pursued over the past year seem deliberately designed to remove basic protections from the poorest.”

Haley says that if the council is reformed, then the U.S. “would be happy to rejoin.”

My 2 Cents: Happy to rejoin, yeah, sure. But not under Trump who wants one world order with the the Trump name brand emblazoned on everything (his only standard - not others need compete). 

Otherwise bye, bye allies, friendly nations, beneficial programs, and policies that shows the U.S. is a leader and not another third world nation that appears to be where we are heading under Trump. 

This fits the Trump pattern: ID a problem, make it worse by not solving it, or making it worse by solving it (Trump style and all alone), then blame someone else.

That is clearly backwards, not forward driven by a narrow-minded out-of-touch Trump in his own little world of irrational insane thinking about “going it alone.” The U.S. has never and can't ever got it alone - no country can for very long.

But, as I've said a long time, Trump is only satisfied when it profits him and Trump Empire, Inc., no matter the issue or deal. 

My bottom line: U.S. leadership again slips a notch now near the bottom of the sewer. 

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