The United Nations is not U.S. property to be used and abused to satisfy unilateral political or personal whims.

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The Trump administration’s ban on Palestinian delegates attending the United Nations General Assembly this week clearly shows that the United States has forfeited the privilege to host the world body.

Donald Trump’s chaotic presidency is bringing the U.S. and the UN into total disrepute. The blocking of the Palestinian delegation is just the latest in a series of wanton acts by the Trump administration upending international norms and peace, all of which show that the United States has openly devolved into a rogue state.

Trump’s ordering of extrajudicial killings by blowing up civilian boats in the Caribbean without any evidence, his aggression towards Venezuela, and putting a $50 million bounty on that country’s president, his bombing of Iran, and his slapping of illegal, unilateral economic sanctions on scores of nations – all demonstrate that the United States under Trump is out of control, beyond law and order and the UN Charter. For such a state to claim the right to host the United Nations – supposedly the highest international authority – is a travesty.

The flagrant hypocrisy of the United States is beyond bearable. The Trump administration announced that it was denying a visa to the State of Palestine’s President Mahmoud Abbas and his aides, preventing them from traveling to the U.S. to address the UN’s annual General Assembly. The reason given was that the Palestinians are allegedly supporting terrorism and constitute a “national security threat” to the United States.

This is while the U.S. is supporting a genocide against Palestinians committed by the Israeli regime. The Trump administration (like the Biden one before it) has thwarted every diplomatic initiative for a ceasefire in Gaza and to end the horrific suffering of civilians. Children are starving to death because of the Israeli blockade on food and humanitarian aid to Gaza, a blockade fully supported by the United States government. Israel’s psychopathic leader, Benjamin Netanyahu, is permitted to address the UN General Assembly and spout his vile justifications for slaughtering 63,000 men, women, and children. Afterwards, Netanyahu will be warmly welcomed at the White House by Trump. Last year, while he was addressing the General Assembly, Netanyahu gave orders for Israeli warplanes to assassinate Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut on September 27, 2024.

Trump is enabling genocide and shielding the Israeli regime with impunity. Such a diabolical fiasco brings the United States and the UN into disrepute.

The American leader’s narcissism raises questions about his sanity. When he addressed the General Assembly earlier this week, Trump lashed out over a failing escalator and teleprompter, claiming that unknown people at the UN were trying to disrupt his attendance and make him look stupid. It turned out that the technical glitches were reportedly caused by Trump’s own entourage, but that didn’t stop him from demanding the arrest of UN staff. This is in keeping with Trump’s threats to shut down American news media outlets that are critical of his presidency.

The ban on Palestinian officials was no doubt in retaliation for several Western states declaring their recognition of the State of Palestine. Britain, Belgium, Canada, France, Luxembourg, Portugal, and others have now joined with Russia, China, and over 80 percent of the total UN members to declare formal recognition of Palestine. Netanyahu and other extremist Israeli politicians have vowed to destroy the last vestige of Palestinian territory, and the United States is sponsoring this criminal attrition. The United States is isolated and held in contempt globally. Out of loyalty to Israel and perhaps blackmail by Mossad over his friendship with pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, Trump exacted petty revenge by blocking the Palestinians from attending the General Assembly – thereby preventing further pressure for an end to the genocide.

Trump’s disgrace is by no means the first time that the United States’ position of hosting the UN has been called into question. Over the past 80 years, since the UN was founded in 1945, the relentless warmongering and genocidal conduct of the United States (Korea, Vietnam, Indonesia, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Afghanistan, Iraq, to name only a few) have made it wholly unfit to facilitate a body supposedly charged with upholding international peace and respect for nations. However, the blatant rogue-state conduct under Trump is making the incontestable case that the U.S. has finally forfeited any presumption of privileges.

The U.S. role of providing the headquarters of the United Nations in New York City was always a privilege, not a prerogative. Given the historic victory by the Soviet Union and China over fascism, the UN’s HQ could well have been in Moscow or Beijing. But such a concept is probably too challenging for consumers of Western news media.

In any case, a UN international treaty (1947) stipulates that the United States must grant unrestricted travel to the General Assembly for all member nations, including permanent observers (the current status of the Palestinian State), regardless of relations with the U.S. government. The UN headquarters has extraterritorial rights similar to foreign embassies.

Even during the height of the Cold War, the United States did not dare to block the attendance of Soviet or Chinese officials. Indeed, such a move would have been inconceivable due to its illegality. One recalls, too, how over the years, staunch critics of U.S. imperialism were free to address the General Assembly. Cuba’s Fidel Castro did so and berated the United States while President George HW Bush Sr was in the audience, even though the U.S. had sanctions on Cuba as a “terrorist state.” Another memorable, coruscating speech was that of Venezuela’s President Hugo Chávez, who mocked George W Bush Jr for leaving a malignant odor at the speaker’s podium.

Trump’s ban on Palestinian attendees is a gross violation of the 1947 treaty to which the United States is legally bound. It is an unprecedented breach of UN rules and international law.

Given the lawlessness of the United States under Trump, and his narcissistic disorder, it can be expected that he will abuse the role of the U.S. to ban other leaders, who become labelled arbitrarily as national security threats. Will Trump ban leaders from Iran, Venezuela, Brazil, India, China, and Russia out of his egotistical petulance?

The United Nations is not U.S. property to be used and abused to satisfy unilateral political or personal whims. Its historic role of hosting the UN is anachronistic in a world of equal nations and with the shift of geopolitical power to Eurasia and the Global South. The five-member Security Council with its veto powers is another anachronism that should be replaced. The UN body should be located in a place where its founding noble principles and Charter are respected. The United States is not such a place.