Balance of Power: Trump Joins the ‘Good Time’ Club
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Donald Trump may be a New Yorker, but no one expected him to a be friend of the United Nations. He once called the global body, which hosts 200 world leaders at its General Assembly this week, a “club” for people who want to “have a good time,” and he’s sought deep cuts in U.S. contributions.
But eight months into his presidency, Trump and his UN envoy, Nikki Haley, have found some use for the bureaucracy in Manhattan’s Turtle Bay, even forging an alliance with Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to scale back troubled peacekeeping missions.