Trump calls UN a ‘club’ for people to have good time
28 Dec 2016 5:30 AM IST
US President-elect Donald Trump has lashed out at the UN, describing the world body as a “club for people to get together, talk and have a good time”.
“The United Nations has such great potential but right now it is just a club for people to get together, talk and have a good time. So sad!” Trump said in a tweet.
Trump’s remarks comes following a decision by President Barack Obama to abstain from a UN Security Council vote condemning Israel’s settlements in the West Bank and parts of Jerusalem. The abstention marked an historic change in policy that permitted the resolution to pass.
Ahead of the vote, Trump had publicly asked the US to veto the resolution.
The Washington Post said Trump’s tweet “signalled” that he would “likely challenge more than just the 71-year-old institution s approach to the Middle East once he takes office”.
Trump has already said that things would be different at the UN after January 20.
Trump has nominated Indian-American Nikki Haley, Governor of South Carolina, as his Ambassador to the United Nations.
Trump says Obama would never have defeated him this time
US President-elect Donald Trump has said even Barack Obama would have lost against him in the presidential race.
“President Obama said that he thinks he would have won against me. He should say that but I say NO WAY! - jobs leaving, ISIS, O-Care, etc,” Trump said in a tweet.
Trump’s tweet to his more than 17 million followers came after in a CNN podcast, President Obama said a message that he could have defeated Trump in the November general elections.
As per US laws, the presidency is term-limited to two four-year terms.
Obama was first elected in 2008 and then re-elected in 2012.
In an interview to his former aide David Axelrod that he could have easily defeated Trump in a hypothetical third-term. “I am confident in this vision because I’m confident that if I if I had run again and articulated it, I think I could’ve mobilized a majority of the American people to rally behind it,” Obama said.
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