It’s the second time President Donald Trump will leave the group. Former President Joe Biden re-entered the U.S. in UNESCO after Trump’s first term.
For Trump, the itch to cut ties was not only about Israel, according to White House deputy spokesperson Anna Kelly. Trump has also scoffed at UNESCO’s support of woke, divisive cultural and social causes that contradict the commonsense policies that the American people voted for, she said.
Senator Ron Johnson (R-Wisconsin), a member of the Senate Homeland Security Committee and the Government Affairs Committee, spoke with Tony Perkins on Washington Watch.
Elections have consequences, he says.
“And in this case, America chose wisely in electing President Trump because he is highly skeptical of these global organizations, and he's pulling the United States out of them,” Johnson states.
This is also a chance for the U.S., the largest financial contributor to the U.N., to send a message, Johnson said. It’s also good news for the American people.
“We have closed our border. We're trying to bring an end to these wars. We're trying to get our debt and deficit under control. So, this is just one more example of President Trump doing right by the American people and putting America first and protecting American sovereignty,” continues Johnson.
Bestselling author and national security writer Brigitte Gabriel is also applauding President Trump for once again pulling the U.S. out of an anti-Israel U.N. organization. The founder and president of ACT for America spoke with AFN about Trump’s decision.
"It's a fantastic move. I want to pull out of the U.N., take all our money out of the UN and kick the U.N. out of New York. Let them meet in Saudi Arabia. The Arabic countries make the Arabic bloc at the U.N. vote against the United States 97% of the time."
The ping and pong of democracy
The U.N. voted to make Palestine the 195th member state in 2011 and is often at odds with U.S. aims regarding Israel. Johnson believes this is due in part to the nature of democracy as the U.S. is often changing leadership.
“We ping pong back and forth between a president like President Trump, who's highly skeptical of these global organizations, and then a president like President Biden, who's happy to surrender American sovereignty on the altar of these global institutions.”
The only way for the U.N. to get the message, Johnson believes, is if the U.S. were to withdraw from the international organization entirely for a long period of time.
Gabriel even asks why the U.S. is funding the U.N.in the first place.
"Why are we taking your tax dollars, my tax dollars, and the tax dollars of the hard-working Americans to fund an agency that hates our guts, hates Israel, and does not stand on the right side of history?” Gabriel questions, “They're always siding against us at any opportunity that they get, and they support terrorist organizations. So, I'm glad he's pulling out, pulling the money out. They don't deserve it, and that's good news."
Johnson remarks that it would be different if the organization was conducted differently.
“It would be nice to have some kind of global organization where nations of the world can get together and try and cooperate on a host of different issues,” he said. “The problem is that they get overtaken by generally leftists and it ends up not being good.”
Critics point out that those in government do not want to change much because they are uncertain about what will happen after the next election. There is not enough stability to get things done in the time that they have.
Johnson says it’s as simple as radical leftists losing the elections and conservatives must win them. For Republicans, one of the biggest problems is the mainstream media is the primary communication wing of the radical left in the Democrat Party, Johnson says.
“So, a lot of Americans just simply aren't getting the truth. They do not realize the destruction of radical leftism. They don't realize the destruction of these global organizations because it always sounds good, right? I mean all these world health organizations sound great, but they often do the exact opposite of what their name calls for.”
When Republicans vote like Dems
The media is able misinform the public and hide the truth, and not all Republicans are created equal. Some believe that the U.S. should continue to fund the U.N. They are driven by fear and intimidation, Johnson says.
“I think a lot of that is driven by the fact that the majority of the legacy of the corporate media is from the left. Democrats can do all kinds of crazy things with impunity. They never get held accountable. Then Republicans are trying to do the right thing, it gets twisted, we get lied about and many of my colleagues actually fear that. I for one don't,” states Johnson.
There are other U.N. agencies that the U.S. should leave, Johnson says, but he reiterates that he is only thankful that President Trump is putting the American people first.
“Again, that's nothing negative as it comes to the rest of the world. I mean, we get our economic house in order. We take care of our people, and that'll have positive repercussions around the world,” he said. “If every national leader took that approach, healed their own countries, made their own countries the most successful, that generally means the most peaceful, and that has worldwide positive consequences.”
