Coss Posted December 20, 2017 Report Share Posted December 20, 2017 President Trump suggested on Wednesday that the United States could withhold foreign aid for countries that vote in favor of a United Nations (U.N.) 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 by U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. 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, we’ll save a lot. We don't care." The General Assembly is set to hold an emergency special session, requested by Arab members, on Thursday to discuss Trump's move to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. The vote on the resolution comes days after the U.S. vetoed a similar resolution in the U.N. Security Council. Unlike on the Security Council, however, the U.S. does not wield veto power in the General Assembly. The resolution condemning the U.S. move is not legally binding. But its passage would be a symbolic rebuke of Trump's decision, and would exert political pressure on Washington. Haley blasted the upcoming resolution vote on Tuesday, saying in a tweet that the U.S. would be "taking names" of those countries that voted in support of the measure. In announcing earlier this month that the U.S. would recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and would begin the process of moving its embassy in Israel to the city, Trump reversed decades of U.S. policy in the region and defied international consensus on the matter. Jerusalem is revered by Christians, Muslims and Jews, and Israel has long considered the city its capital. But Palestinians have also aspired to establish the eastern sector of the city as the capital of a future independent state, and the international community has generally held that Jerusalem's status must ultimately be decided in peace negotiations. Trump's decision has threatened to derail peace talks between the Israelis and Palestinians, which he has vowed to broker and has called the "ultimate deal." Trump said at the Cabinet meeting on Wednesday that Americans were "tired of this country being taken advantage of" by other nations willing to oppose the U.S. on the world stage. "This isn’t like it used to be where they could vote against you, and then you pay them hundreds of millions of dollars and nobody knows what they're doing," he said. http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/365825-trump-suggests-us-will-cut-off-aid-for-countries-that-vote-for-un Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coss Posted December 20, 2017 Report Share Posted December 20, 2017 Well, take yer f'in Uber, yer f'in Amazon and close your borders and stop all US~international trade, and retreat to your Ozarks and F*ck you Trump. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
passingthru69 Posted December 20, 2017 Report Share Posted December 20, 2017 Off your meds again.. just asking Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coss Posted December 20, 2017 Report Share Posted December 20, 2017 Yes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted December 21, 2017 Report Share Posted December 21, 2017 Well, take yer f'in Uber, yer f'in Amazon and close your borders and stop all US~international trade, and retreat to your Ozarks and F*ck you Trump. Clinton's from the Ozarks. Trump's from the Catskills. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coss Posted December 21, 2017 Report Share Posted December 21, 2017 I'd like all them minced up and poured into an Alligator and Mosquito infested swamp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buffalo_bill Posted December 21, 2017 Report Share Posted December 21, 2017 I hope that soon the ambulance arrives and they put him in a straitjacket. Tecnical question: do any of his rustbelt supportes realise in the meantime that he gives a rat´s arse how they are doing ? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waerth Posted December 21, 2017 Report Share Posted December 21, 2017 Basically Trumpistan is now blackmailing other countries. I hope the EU severs all ties with Trumpistan and refuses all Trumpistanis access to the EU. We don't want those terrorist babykillers anymore. Fuck the US under Trump. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coss Posted December 21, 2017 Report Share Posted December 21, 2017 And if you've ever wondered how popular Trump is at the U.N. then: UN overwhelmingly defies Trump's Jerusalem move Apparently Trump's move violates a bunch of resolutions that the USA voted for, or abstained from, did not vote against, these resolutions/sanctions are named in this resolution. "All in all, 128 countries voted for international law." And the nine who voted against? Quite a lot that depend on US aid like Palau, Micronesia, Togo, Nauru, Marshall Islands, Honduras,Guatemala and of courses Israel and the USA. So Trump won't be cutting of Aid to these ones then... A bunch like Canada and Australia abstained, pussies. have a look here https://twitter.com/...l-news/1.830498 and I never thought I'd agree with a Politician - -New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern yesterday said the country would not be bullied on the international stage, and that New Zealand had always supported a two-state solution for Israel and Palestine. read at link https://www.radionz....-jerusalem-move Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coss Posted December 21, 2017 Report Share Posted December 21, 2017 Yes, on mature consideration, it's not the majority of the people in the USA that I don't like, it's just the Trumperbelle and the Trumpanzees... And I frame this in terms of popularity, or liking, or not liking (spelling it out) because Trumping, is based completely, on school yard popularity contests. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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