https://dcjournal.com/trump-was-right-to-leave-u-n-organizations-that-dont-serve-u-s-interests/
by Craig Rucker
President Trump’s January 7 memorandum just slammed the door on America’s involvement in 66 bloated international organizations, 31 from the United Nations and 35 others — finally putting an end to the endless drain on U.S. taxpayers.
This isn’t some half-measure; it’s the culmination of a thorough review kicked off by an executive order in which his team dug in and labeled these outfits as what they are: redundant, mismanaged, wasteful, poorly run money pits, often hijacked by globalist actors pushing agendas that clash with American interests, sovereignty, freedoms and prosperity. Many of them outright aim to handcuff U.S. independence.
The president laid it out clearly: We’ll cooperate with international bodies when they benefit the American people, and we’ll stand tall and say “no thanks” when they don’t. No more funding or playing along with entities that shove globalist priorities down our throats at the expense of our citizens, communities, states and nation.
The crown jewel of this move? Withdrawing from the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, that 1992 relic that’s served as the launchpad for the “climate crisis” industry, net-zero fantasies, renewable energy mandates, endless treaties, junk-science studies, and heavy-handed policies designed to bully America (and the West) into killing fossil fuels, deindustrializing our economies, and micromanaging every facet of our lives and living standards.
Climate Depot’s Marc Morano nailed it: This is the end of “climate terrorism.”
Predictably, the outrage machine kicked into overdrive. The usual suspects — Climate Crisis Inc. politicians, activists, virtue-signaling corporations and their allies — screamed bloody murder because their gravy train just got derailed.
Friends of the Earth called it a “direct assault” on saving the planet from the UNFCCC’s favorite buzzword: climate as a “threat-multiplier,” touching everything. Al Gore went full meltdown mode, wailing that Trump is “undoing decades of hard-won diplomacy, undermining climate science, and sowing distrust around the world.”
Please. It’s all theatrical hubris and hot air.
Their playbook never changes:
—Pretend Earth’s climate was some perfectly stable Eden until evil fossil fuels showed up. Forget the Ice Ages, the Medieval Warm Period when Vikings farmed Greenland, the Little Ice Age that froze the Thames, or the brutal Dust Bowl and Anasazi droughts.
—Insist manmade greenhouse gases are the sole driver of weather, with doomsday biblical calamities just around the corner.
—Cherry-pick data while ignoring reality: Temperatures and sea levels have risen modestly at best; no Category 3-5 hurricanes hit the U.S. mainland from October 2005 to August 2017 (and zero U.S. hurricanes made landfall in 2025); tornado counts (both weak and strong) have trended downward since the 1950s.
PRESTO! Crank up the faulty computer models, and suddenly we’re facing “unprecedented” cataclysms never seen in 4.5 billion years of planetary history.
Layer on the fairytales about wind, solar and batteries being perfectly clean, cheap and reliable “renewables,” with no mining devastation, no sprawling eyesores across landscapes and bird migration routes, no wildlife carnage, and no skyrocketing electricity bills or blackouts.
Suddenly, politicians feel even more justified ramming through electric vehicle and heat pump mandates, flight restrictions, meat bans (hello, cricket burgers!), and more top-down control.
Meanwhile, they conveniently ignore that modern technology and wealth have made us far safer from extreme weather and disasters than any previous generation. Yet these elites see no issue with unreliable “green” power — electricity when the wind blows or the sun shines, not when you actually need it, or with dragging our living standards back decades or centuries.
And don’t get me started on the education system that amplifies every alarmist whopper while moving to censor any inconvenient truths.
The fallout? An international community and domestic radicals who mostly resent America anyway. Real diplomacy? Influence? In a room full of people who despise us and wish us harm?
Worse, this globalist climate-energy cult shafts the poorest people and nations most of all, especially in Africa. Their bureaucrats pocket endless prestige and paychecks; regular folks get stuck with poverty and blackouts.
No wonder developing nations are waking up. They want what we have: reliable, affordable energy and rising living standards. That’s why China, India and other rising powers keep cranking out new coal and gas plants weekly while we’re lectured by U.N. bureaucrats.
Trump understands genuine diplomacy, real American priorities and protecting our people from this nonsense. This move isn’t isolationist; it’s pro-American, pro-sovereignty and long overdue. We should cheer it loudly.
America First is back, and it’s sounding pretty darn good.
