Jerusalem vote: Trump threatens to cut off aid to countries ahead of UN vote
This should have happened years ago. Barry's tenure was an 8-year apology tour. Trump's is 'put America first'. What a dramatic contrast!
Great having a take the bull by the horns billionaire businessman running the country then a guy who's only claim to fame is he once worked at Baskin Robbins.
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President Donald Trump's threat to cut off U.S. funding to countries that oppose his decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital has raised the stakes in Thursday's U.N. vote and sparked criticism at his tactics, which one Muslim group called bullying or blackmail.
U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley hinted in a tweet and a letter to most of the 193 U.N. member states on Tuesday that the U.S. would retaliate against countries that vote in favor of a General Assembly resolution calling on the president to rescind his decision.
She said Trump asked her to report back on countries "who voted against us" — and she stressed that the United States "will be taking names."
At the start of a Cabinet meeting in Washington on Wednesday, Trump went further, telling reporters that Americans are tired of being taken advantage of and praised the U.S. ambassador for sending the "right message" before the vote.
"For all these nations, they take our money and then vote against us. They take hundreds of millions of dollars, even billions of dollars and then they vote against us," Trump told reporters at the Cabinet meeting. "We're watching those votes. Let them vote against us."
"We'll save a lot. We don't care," he said, alluding to U.S. aid.
We have given money to every country in the world and 90% of them hate our guts. About time we woke up!
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