Trump creates his own UN: countries must pay US$1bn to join his "Board of Peace" – Bloomberg
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Pay a billion to get a vote, and everyone gets a vote...
But trump can overrule any vote...
And he can kick anyone out that he wants, so if you ever go against his opinion of the moment, he'll kick you out.
Why the fuck would any country pay this?
Same reason they would gift Trump an airplane?
Because they couldn’t find a buyer?
I first read this as
And I like that both sentences are plausible
Oh, it was a Boeing, huh?
He's going to play this whole game of doing military actions and stuff. Then people complain and he'll just say the decision was made in his board of peace. If you wanted something different, you had to be there and vote.
I mean, to be real it'll be an invasion club.
Join and pay up, and everyone votes that your invasion is for long-term stability and peace.
Don't join up, and get labeled an aggressor for defending your own soverignity.
If Russia, China, NK join up, it stops being a joking matter
Because it would be a shame if the military had to pay a little visit to your country if you don't.
Also, guess what? Tariffs!
It's another invitation to bribe him.
So a protection racket, in other words.
Setup by the dollar store godfather wannabe
Ever since trump got elected, the news has been either bizarre, devastating, hilarious, insane, removed, cringe, maddening....
Can that heart attack come already? Come on, McDonald's hamburgers, do your job
Make news boring again
Heart Attack would be nice, but the men next in line are worse.
Yeah. A crushing defeat in midterms is a better outcome. Also, if some republican senators and congrespeople figured that they can save their asses by opposing Trump, those from tariff ravaged states, for example, he could even be impeached.
I don't think you'll have midterms. Trump's just one year into his presidency and already has his SS(private military) deporting people with citizenship. There's no consequences to his actions, so why follow laws?
Absolutely fucking terrible protection racket if that's what it is.
The US spends 7tn per year on government spending. Even if the entire UN ponied up a billion each, every year, that would be less than 200bn in additional revenue. Not nothing, but barely a fraction of the 5tn in tax revenue the US government takes in every year.
That's like the mafia hitting you up for $50 a month.
Lol as if this money will go to us. Trump will pocket it for himself just like he's doing with Venezuela.
Actually, at least according to this article, the charter does state that any funds will be personally controlled by Trump (or whoever he designates as his successor).
Can We the people wake the fuck up already and use the 2A to do a burger's job?
... oh my god this isn't an onion article.
We are in hell.
Always was, just this time Trumpler is exacerbating the overall situation - essentially driving us deeper into the underworld.
Outside of the overt extortion for entry bit, how would this be any different than the current UN where the US unilaterally controls basically every decision or its consequences?
It's called the board of peace so we can assume it will be a global Mafia demanding protection money, and going to war whenever it's the more profitable outcome.
The kind of group that should be nuked from orbit.
So no different than the status quo where Team America World Police does whatever they want whenever.
But this one exists to launder money to him and his cronies
It’s his same old song. Tear down what already exists, then huck a new version of it out for the very low price of $19.84.
I’m surprised he hasn’t added his name to the title of it yet.
That's a good point. He still has time to put his name on it though.
UN SC is not unilaterally controlled by the US, other permanent members get a veto too. That's why he would like to replace that.
"Bored of peace" coalition
Trump doesn't honor any agreement he signs,why would anyone be stupid enough to agree to this.
He will just keep increasing the price.
Nonsense. The price is firm. It's two billion dollars and not one cent more. And that's pretty cheap. Three billion, for such a good protection service? Very cheap! Just five billion!
Every pro Trumper I know also has a deep fear of the UN or some shadowy organisation controlling the world. Every conversation ended up with "Well at least he will take back power from the elites". Now Trump declares he wants to rule the world, and outlines their exact fears as his plan and they are silent. No comment. Why are people so stupid? And pathetically so. It not even hard to see how ridiculous this guy is, but people are still bowing down to it.
Literally just tribalism. Trump is on "their team", therefore whatever he says is good.
Always projection. As long as it's their guy doing it, yay team.
It's WWE politics.
I still remember when people were fearmongering about Obama enacting martial law.
They seem to just really, really love the boot. They're only particular about the brand, it seems.
He's fucking delusional.
The next 90 days will decide if the EU is a puppet state of the US.
By the soldier count on Greenland right now, it's lookin kinda sus. They couldn't defend a movie theater rn.
Lol, tell me you don't understand posturing without telling me you don't understand posturing
Either Trump is bluffing, you guys are, or both.
Look up trip wire troops and you’ll understand.
The soldiers are symbolic. Any attack on them is an attack on all of Europe (well those countries present in Greenland).
If you are going to have a war, you don't want 1000s of your best soldiers stuck in a snowdrift.
Any nation that joins this farcical board makes itself a vassal to the US. I kinda expect random small nations with low stakes in the UN to go for it, to suck up to tRump and try to curry favor. For them, becoming a vassal will be moving up in the world. But any self-respecting European nation needs to double down on its commitments to Europe.
Who becomes chairman when trump leaves office? The next US president, a senior member of the board, or is it a position for life? Or is he so convinced that he'll never leave office that he didn't bother describing that in the charter?
He's trying to make himself
chancellorking of the world.Also Europe having a few dozen soldiers on Greenland is more of a deterrent. It says "you attack here, you're attacking all of us," and it also acts as an assurance to Denmark that the other nations will respond if something happens. Since Article 5 wouldn't apply if attacked by another NATO country...
Give the bully your lunchbox and she'll want your lunchbox tomorrow.
Trump is a genius inventor: he keeps coming up with new ways to take bribes
It's a coin operated system. Insert $25M for the next 6 days of peace.
And it won't be by GDP either. He will ask the exact same amount from each country. If you're too small to pay, you get conquered
It's astonishing how often Tony Blair manages to find new ways to be a massive fucking disappointment. It's like he's already concluded that he's going to hell for the whole Iraq thing so he'd may as well lean into it by being a huge cunt while he's alive.
I thought the same thing. I mean the whole Iraq thing could be seen as a misjudgement in hindsight. Now though he just looks evil.
The words in the picture are wrong. It should be:
I'm going to build my own UN with
little children and more little children!
This guy has ruined satire news...
Satire now would just be him doing anything like a normal sane president.
Is he gonna give himself an award for this too?
No need. Maria Corina Machado already gave him hers.
Every award is going to be more grandiose and ridiculous.
Thanks. I hate it.
LMAO. It's so cursed. I love it.
Can we start a go fund me to remove him from office since no one else with the power has the balls to do so?
Hire like a mercenary army to overthrow him?
This is pretty much how US politics already works. Trust me, all of us combined don't have enough money.
Or maybe we can start an alternative government of the United States as a micronation with a distinct name, flag, seal and such.
Just buy out the senate
You know, most of the Supreme Court justices do have a prixr. Let's find it.
We can tell every interested country/party/whatever to fund it with $1bn US. 👍
United America
(Sorry can't find a better source)
I was not prepared for how Craig Charles looked in that clip.
But then I gave up on the show ages ago. The Series 6 finale was the end as far as I'm concerned.
That's what years of curry and lager in deep space does to you.
Krytens skin is still young looking though.
Seemingly Cat hasn't aged at all.
Black don't crack.
Kryten's looking a little worse for wear, but has still fared a lot better than Data in that Picard series.
First one trump invited is ofcourse putin ... ???
TL;DR: Trump decides to let countries pay him a billion dollars to join his own UN ripoff
Kinda like TrumpU? If anything, he's consistent in him MO.
A "Board of Peace" membership and a 100 Euro bill are worth 100 Euros combined.
Noice country ya have here, vary vary noice...would be a shame if someone invaded it....wunnit?
Nobody expects...
The Gambino Inquisition!
It costs money to join the axis? This will break the future Hearts of Iron IX mechanics.
Nah, they will add DLC to play as axis, but it's subscription only.
The stupid thing about this is the US already has a disproportionate amount of influence in the UN. Greed is something that can't ever be satisfied.
Trump isn't getting $1B from countries joining the UN.
Should take this chance to say you can't be part of both and kick us out of the un
A board of peace - after telling the Norwegian prime minister that he's not committed to peace anymore because he didn't get the peace price (and no, the PM doesn't control the peace price)
I can only assume it will be renamed the "Board of War" in six months
This isn't his own UN, this is just a blatant way to bribe Trump in the hopes that you'll get something out of it. Like all Trump cons the only ones who will be paying into this are suckers or people that already have leverage on Trump and can guarantee compliance (in which case this is just an extra money laundering step).
Well, after he got a Nobel Peace Prize, it makes sense that he moves onwards towards his next great wish: King Of The World.
Why can't they just make a Discord server for free instead??
He doesn't know how to spell, its meant to be "Bored of Peace"
“War is Peace, y’all, now hand over that one BILLION or I’ll have to sic my most sycophantic Secretary of War upon your sorry backsides”
“Oh yeah, payment in cryptocurrency only, thank you very much!!!”
Trump coin, of course. Kill two birds with one stone... Wait, this doesn't sound right.
It's is honestly amazing just how giving stupid this man is. Like, I am amazed.
Largest army in the world. Currently aligned with Russia.
The man knows exactly what he's doing. European countries will pay. This is the biggest grift I've ever seen
Democratic countries will not join. Dictatorships might join, though.
Whilst I hear your sentiment, I hear your agreement too
To join MY board of whatever you must pay $30.
Mines only $20 and there will be cookies
Well, that’s one way to start the new Axis powers. The internal fascist structure could be a gamble (usually even other fascist leaders want to have more authority than deference), but I guess we’ll see how it goes.
The grift goes on.
Now to see which countries will cough that up.
Board of peace has the same energy as ministry of truth
"I am a Nigerian Princess and I am going to start my own UN. If you decide to invest a billion dollars in it now, you are guaranteed to at least double your investment by the end of the year."
I sure do love being an American (I don't)
Little like Trump University, but for peace.
He’s such a fucking joke.
It's not a funny joke when you're in the targeted minorities.
"Board of Peace" tracks better than "Golden Dome". Good phrase donny. That'll make everyone forget about your pedophiliac degeneracy.
"League of Trump"
*Axis of Trump
The Trump Cards
League of Extraordinary Rendition
Wait, is it me or did they photoshop his hands slightly bigger for this picture?
The 1bn requirement is a great way to make sure countries in the global south can't join.
Guess murica will have to liberate them of their resources.
Excuse my ignorance but who in the flaming fuck would pay this child rapist douchebag a thin dime? Oh you say, then my country will be protected as I paid it off. As we have seen countless times over the past few months it changes its mind every 30 seconds on any point big or small if it will benefit itself. Well, PT Barnum did say there is a sucker born every minute.
And what if they don't, will he kidnap their Presidents too? Or maybe tarrif them?
didn’t he just threaten denmark that he’s done with peace because he didn’t win the peace prize 😑
Sounds like a scam
It's Trump, so the odds are ever in your favor.
Sounds like the league of nations just collapsed
That's cute but where are the Epstein files?
The "in cash" part is quite interesting...
What's the point? Both organizations will be useless as fuck
Not useless. He’ll now have an additional $1B to steal!
This is hilarious 🤣 I can’t believe he’s just straight up starting a protection racket!
“It’d be a shame if something happened to you green land over here!”
Reminds me of the episode of Silicon Valley when Jian-Yang is working on cloning popular western apps for the Chinese market and the whiteboard behind him is just a list of items like "New Facebook", "New Reddit" and "New Pied Piper" etc. Trump has a well established history of slapping his name on/endorsing, crappier versions of other people's ideas, e.g. Truth Social.
And he'll maintain control of the funds in Qatar.
Lol. Lmao.
I thought it was about the Gaza Strip "peace" plan. Did I miss something here?
I'm quite interested whether Russia will join. On one hand Russia and US are geopolitical rivals, and trump is still helping Ukraine to some degree. On the other hand putin has been trying to suck up to trump at multiple occasions - the last one being that rare earth proposal - and is trying hard to be seen as wanting "peace".
A cool $1b bribe might warm the relationship significantly, hell, I wouldn't be surprised if the US starts selling weapons to Russia at that point.
I guess it also depends on how much EU countries are willing to bend over, if they go all in on it that can scare putin off for a bit.
Trump is a lapdog to American oligarchs first and foremost. His relationship with putin is strained, otherwise he could easily stop supporting Ukraine, because that is the first and foremost goal for putin at the moment. As always, look at the financial decisions to see through the noise.
Even if putin had kompromat on trump, it matters less and less with each passing day. It has been known for a few years, almost for certain, that trump raped kids, and yet he has been reelected and even won the popular vote as an insult to injury. No amount of kompromat will make his base change their mind as long as there is a steady stream of fascist propaganda reaching their ears, only total economic failure will. This is all made possible by huge donations and support from billionaires, putin is irrelevant here.
It's you who is falling for the ruling class propaganda. They are making sure you have an external enemy to blame instead of them. Putin can go eat shit and die in a prison cell next to trump, but he's not the tail wagging this particular dog.
This sounds Like a GREAT idea!
-World Leaders PROBABLY!
FTFY
Somebody? Anybody?
This’ll still beat the Trump Phone to market.
What about Trump Steaks?
Fools and their money are soon parted
The grift goes global.
Same energy as the million dollar email service where the idea was that people knew you’d blown a million dollars to have an email on that domain.
What does his secretary of war think about this?
Just so long as he gets to keep bombing unarmed fishing boats
Dang Ol’ St. Charles Place with a goddamn motel!
I'm pretty sure most countries have an idea of peace that does not openly include "start frivolous wars". We'll be ok without that.