Donald Trump threatens to cut aid to countries over UN Jerusalem vote

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian

Donald Trump threatens to cut aid to countries over UN Jerusalem vote

• General assembly to vote on rejecting US recognition of city as Israeli capital
• Trump: ‘We’re not going to be taken advantage of any longer’

Peter Beaumont in Jerusalem
Wed 20 Dec ‘17 18.39 GMT

Donald Trump has threatened to withhold “billions” of dollars of US aid from countries which vote in favour of a United Nations resolution rejecting the US president’s recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

His comments came after the US ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, wrote to about 180 of 193 member states warning that she will be “taking names” of countries that vote for a general assembly resolution on Thursday critical of the announcement which overturned decades of US foreign policy.

Speaking at a cabinet meeting on Wednesday, Trump amplified Haley’s threat.

“Let them vote against us,” he said.

“We’ll save a lot. We don’t care. But this isn’t like it used to be where they could vote against you and then you pay them hundreds of millions of dollars,” he said. “We’re not going to be taken advantage of any longer.”

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/dec/20/donald-trump-threat-cut-aid-un-jerusalem-vote

[hedda_foil]

1. Gee, i guess nobody told the orange shitsicle that we only give countries money to buy our weapons.

[C_U_L8R]

2. No one respects you, Donald

You're an ignoramus and an embarrassment.

[Turbineguy]

3. Does he actually know how much

or how little money we give other countries? He was probably pulling figures out of Hannity's ass.

[Doodley]

4. Trump couldnt negotiate his way out of a paper bag.

[secondwind]

5. WTF is wrong with this picture??!!!? What a cretin.