Trump: Source of the strongest arguments against joining Trump’s Board of Peace

I suspect blowing up fishing boats, kidnapping a leader and threatening to nuke NATO contributed. But this article posits that Bruised Springsteen’s hints that he wants to replace the UN made the new BOP unattractive to many of the people he invited to join.

President Donald Trump’s latest attempt to sidestep the United Nations through his new Board of Peace appears to have inadvertently backfired after major world powers rejected U.S. aspirations for it to have a larger international mandate beyond the Gaza ceasefire and recommitted their support for the over 80-year-old global institution.

The board to be chaired by Trump was originally envisioned as a small group of world leaders overseeing his plan for Gaza’s future.

That’s one way to describe sitting around a table in War-a-Lago while he sings his praises and wait their turn to do the same. In exchange they can hope he flicks a few pennies their way (he won’t).

You can read the charter here. As the introductory article notes it does not mention Gaza.

But the Republican president’s ambitions have expanded to envisioning the board as a mediator of worldwide conflicts, a not very subtle attempt to eclipse the Security Council, which is charged with ensuring international peace and security.

Reasonable folks can reasonably criticize how and how well the UNSC accomplishes its goals. But someone’s brain would have to be rottener than short fingers’ left hand to think his BOP would be an improvement.

The board’s charter also caused some dismay by stating Trump will lead it until he resigns, with veto power over its actions and membership.

See articles 3.2, 3.3 and 4.1(e).

The one-time offer to give him $1 billion for a permanent spot on the board – but they must act NOW – is just one of the problems Big Mouth, Small Hands has introduced to this thing. And the most obvious money grab. Nations can join without forking over a big B, but then their continued membership is at the whim of the most capricious adult on the planet. Who really wanted everyone to give him $1 billion.

See articles 2.2(c) and 2.3.

He also decides which countries can join his secret clubhouse.

See article 2.1.

The list of countries he hasn’t invited makes it clear who is not allowed. Except possibly through the servants’ entrance. The list also makes one of the reasons he hates the UN pretty obvious.

The fact that he can be chairman of the board until gets bored and quits (he won’t) seems like a bigger problem for anyone who wants to do anything but give him money and lick his shoes. I understand what he’s doing: Using the office of the POTUS to create a perpetual money chute to his bank account. But I wonder what the suckers other leaders think will happen once he’s out of office. Who will give a shit? Assuming that he lets this thing get beyond the mindless self-aggrandizement phase (LOL).

As an aside, the board is not a sign he’ll leave office without a fight because he has this thing to play with. But I understand why people might hope that’s the case.

Less discussed is the second money grab. As chair-for-life he decides when and where the group will meet. In other words, how often he summons international leaders to one of his country clubs where they – or their citizens – will pay him for the privilege of kissing his ass and eating food that looks worse.

See article 3.1(c).

In Security Council statements, public speeches and behind closed doors, U.S. allies and adversaries have dismissed Trump’s latest plan to overturn the post-World War II international order with what he describes as a “bold new approach to resolving global conflict.”

The approach: Every country gives him its money until they don’t have any left for fighting.

As is so often the case, the fact he cannot shut his fucking hamberder hole, even when his second favorite thing is at stake, appears to have been huge turn off. The BOP quickly went from a coalition to wring money out of rebuild Gaza, to something that replace the UN. Because his hatred of that organization is well documented, people took him seriously and literally.

But Trump’s promotion of a broadened mandate and his floating of an idea that the Board of Peace “might” replace the U.N. have put off major players and been dismissed by U.N. officials.

“In my opinion, the basic responsibility for international peace and security lies with U.N., lies with the Security Council,” Secretary General Antonio Guterres said Thursday. “Only the Security Council can adopt decisions binding on all, and no other body or other coalition can legally be required to have all member states to comply with decisions on peace and security.”

As I said, I’m sure people see room for improvement at the UN. But unless they want global mayhem, those people know an organization permanently headed by the man whose greed makes a black hole look like a fussy Eater, is not it.

Also, not everyone has a taste for trump ass. Can you imagine having to spend even more time massaging this pervert’s fragile little ego?

“The U.S. rollout of the much broader Board of Peace charter turned the whole exercise into a liability,” according to the International Crisis Group’s Richard Gowan, a U.N. watcher and program director. “Countries that wanted to sign on to help Gaza saw the board turning into a Trump fan club. That was not appealing.”

To say the least.