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I think the world is still trying to take the measure of this president, said Jon Alterman, director of the Middle East program at the bipartisan Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. For a number of leaders, this is going to be their first chance to see him, to judge him, to try to get on his good side . How that goes off is unclear.
If the U.S. government decides that it doesnt care about the U.N., he added, the consequences for the U.N., which is running operations in dozens and dozens of countries with vulnerable people around the world, would be profound.
The jittery anticipation of Trumps first U.N. appearance stands in marked contrast to the prelude to President Obamas maiden address in 2009. Received as something of a hero, he delivered an impassioned plea for international cooperation against global warming, which gelled seven years later into a historic climate accord one that Trump has vowed to reject.
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, who has sought to trim the State Department, initially planned to take a much smaller team of diplomats and subject experts to New York than his predecessors did. It is not yet clear how much smaller, given that the delegation has grown in recent days.
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-fg-un-trump-speech-20170918-story.html
Rollo
(2,559 posts)orangecrush
(19,546 posts)to his ordinary assholishness...
"If the U.S. government decides that it doesnt care about the U.N., he added, the consequences for the U.N., which is running operations in dozens and dozens of countries with vulnerable people around the world, would be profound.
The jittery anticipation of Trumps first U.N. appearance stands in marked contrast to the prelude to President Obamas maiden address in 2009. Received as something of a hero, he delivered an impassioned plea for international cooperation against global warming, which gelled seven years later into a historic climate accord one that Trump has vowed to reject."
Doreen
(11,686 posts)embarrassing this country while taking a shit at 3:00am and we expect more when he is among people in the day?
MyOwnPeace
(16,926 posts)way to bare the facts!
You are SO right...............