Trump's board of peace is an imperial court completely unlike what was proposed

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/20/trumps-board-of-peace-is-an-imperial-court-completely-unlike-what-was-proposed

Analysis
Trump’s board of peace is an imperial court completely unlike what was proposed
Julian Borger
Senior international correspondent
The US president’s global club was endorsed by the security council on a false prospectus and seems aimed at displacing the United Nations
Tue 20 Jan 2026 13.20 EST


Like many punters who have tried to do business with Donald Trump in the past, the UN has found itself a victim of a classic bait-and-switch, thinking it was buying one thing, but getting quite another.

When they voted to endorse the board of peace in November, other members of the UN security council hoped they were binding Trump into a Gaza peace process, but it now appears they were hoodwinked into backing a Trump-dominated pay-to-play club: a global version of his Mar-a-Lago court aimed at supplanting the UN itself.

The outline of Trump’s “board of peace” which has emerged over the past few days is a long way from the body that the council thought it was endorsing. Resolution 2803 was passed 13-0, with Russia and China abstaining, as an attempt to give a UN imprimatur to a Trump-brokered ceasefire in Gaza. The discussions leading up to the vote on 18 November, and the text of the resolution, were all about the conflict.

Handing control of Gaza to a Trump-run “board” for two years cut across longstanding UN principles of self-determination and national sovereignty and against colonialism. It was also vaguer than any other UN peacekeeping resolution in modern times.

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Trump’s board of peace is an imperial court completely unlike what was proposed

— The Guardian (@theguardian.com) 2026-01-20T18:57:43.918Z

[C_U_L8R]

1. Trump's Bored of Peace

It’s a cookbook.

[Irish_Dem]

2. Destroy the US, Europe, NATO, United Nations.

The PutinGOP plan is going quite well.

[lame54]

3. When is his credibility shot...

Why does anybody engage thinking it's going to work out differently

[Solly Mack]

4. K&R

[muriel_volestrangler]

5. Full text of the "charter" - it is an agreement to bribe Trump until he dies, and then bribe his chosen successor

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/trump-board-of-peace-charter-full-text

It's absurd. It's Dr. Evil, put through an eighth grader's understanding of "charters". Britain and France, the permanent UN Security Council members that were fool enough to vote for Trump to establish this "Board of Peace" need to apologise and disown it ASAP (I think Macron effectively has; Starmer looks like a useful idiot and coward for not having done so fast enough).