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\n When President Donald Trump<\/a> brought his trademark braggadocio to the United Nations\u2019 rostrum in his first term, he was met with an unfamiliar-for-him response<\/a> from the delegates: mocking laughter.\n <\/p>\n \n Seven years later, few could imagine the scene repeating itself. Once the object of skepticism and open derision by his foreign counterparts, Trump arrives at the UN<\/a> General Assembly on Tuesday as an avatar of a changing world order that has little use for global institutions like the one he\u2019s speaking at.\n <\/p>\n \n Instead of laughing in his face, world leaders are now devising ever-more-lavish displays of flattery<\/a> to enter Trump\u2019s good graces. And rather than a novice in a shrine to multilateralism, Trump is now the president who has rocked global arrangements on trade and security, all while hollowing out the post-World War II international system that his predecessors built and worked to uphold.\n <\/p>\n \n The successes and failures of his strategy are still being written. Two conflicts he once promised to end quickly \u2014 in Gaza and Ukraine \u2014 continue to rage; his plan of abandoning a collective approach in favor of leveraging close personal relationships with the leaders of Israel and Russia has so far yielded virtually no progress. (After his speech Tuesday, Trump plans to meet a host of foreign counterparts on the margins of the UNGA meetings, including Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who Trump said last week should agree to a peace deal with Russia.)\n <\/p>\n \n Trump often touts his efforts<\/a> to broker peace elsewhere, including a once-intractable conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan for which he\u2019s received widespread credit. His role in other negotiations, including between India and Pakistan, is a matter of dispute<\/a>. Either way, Trump has made plain he believes his efforts deserve a Nobel Peace Prize \u2014 in no small part because he thinks he\u2019s found success where prior attempts, including through the UN, have failed.\n <\/p>\n \n In his speech Tuesday morning, Trump plans to underscore where his way works better \u2014 including on shared global issues like migration and trade \u2014 and call into question the very body he is addressing.\n <\/p>\n \n \u201cPresident Trump will deliver a major speech touting the renewal of American strength around the world, his historic accomplishments in just eight months, including the ending of seven global wars and conflicts,\u201d press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Monday. \u201cThe president will also touch upon how globalist institutions have significantly decayed the world order, and he will articulate his straightforward and constructive vision for the world.\u201d\n <\/p>\n \n Trump has never seemed a particular fan of the UN. Even before becoming president, he maligned the \u201ccheap\u201d marble on the General Assembly dais and took umbrage when his offers to renovate the 39-story headquarters building were rejected in the early 2000s.\n <\/p>\n \n It wasn\u2019t his first dispute. The previous decade, diplomats posted at the institution\u2019s headquarters balked at the real estate developer\u2019s plans to construct Trump World Tower just across First Avenue from their headquarters. Their concern: The tower, with its smoked-glass facade, would cast an unpleasant orange shadow over the iconic modernist UN complex, which had enjoyed its sunny perch on the far east side for decades.\n <\/p>\n \n Now in office a second time, Trump\u2019s shadow is well affixed on world affairs, and the UN has not been spared his influence. The US has slashed the money it spends on the institution, no longer making payments<\/a> toward the UN budget. Trump has cut funding for foreign humanitarian aid and peacekeeping operations, leaving the institution stretched financially.\n <\/p>\n \n \u201cI\u2019ve always felt that the UN has tremendous potential,\u201d Trump said this year as he signed a measure withdrawing the United States from the UN Human Rights Council. \u201cIt\u2019s not living up to that potential right now.\u201d\n <\/p>\n \n Aside from the Human Rights Council, Trump pulled the US<\/a> from UNESCO, the educational and cultural agency, which the White House claimed \u201csupports woke, divisive cultural and social causes,\u201d and from the UN-run World Health Organization<\/a>, in part for how it handled the Covid-19 pandemic.\n <\/p>\n \n In votes on the UN Security Council, the body\u2019s main mechanism for ensuring international peace and security, the United States has sided at times with adversaries instead of allies. In February, for example, the US joined with Russia and China to score the Security Council\u2019s backing on a Ukraine resolution that didn\u2019t blame Moscow for the war; five European countries abstained.\n <\/p>\n \n Trump is also at odds with more than half the member nations, including key allies, over Israel\u2019s war in Gaza and the possibility of establishing a Palestinian state<\/a>. France and Saudi Arabia are co-hosting a two-state solution conference, supported by nearly 150 of the 193 UN Member States, on the sidelines of this week\u2019s UNGA. The US is not participating in the conference and was one of only 10 countries that voted against the General Assembly resolution backing the high-level gathering.\n <\/p>\n \n On Tuesday, Trump \u2014 who has come under pressure to apply more pressure on Israel to end the fighting \u2014 will host the leaders of multiple Muslim-majority nations, including Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, Turkey, Pakistan, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Jordan, for multilateral talks centered on the Gaza conflict.\n <\/p>\n \n Trump administration officials, along with other Republicans, have long argued the UN is increasingly hostile to Israel. They have also claimed the UN is poorly run and rife with financial mismanagement, and question the efficacy of multilateral diplomacy to solve the world\u2019s problems.\n <\/p>\n![\"President](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/gettyimages-2197652713.jpg\")
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