Breaking: Donald Trump Signs Executive Orders, Withdraws US from 2 UN Bodies
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Breaking: Donald Trump Signs Executive Orders, Withdraws US from 2 UN Bodies

  • President Donald Trump has ordered the withdrawal of the US from the United Nations Human Rights Council
  • Trump, who signed three executive orders on Tuesday, February 4, also said the US will no longer be part of the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA
  • The new US president directed the parting of his country in UNESCO, the body that uses culture and history as a bridge-building mechanism between nations

President Donald Trump of the United States has signed three new executive orders to mark the withdrawal of the U.S. from the United Nations Human Rights Council and from taking part in the UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees.

Trump's third executive order on Tuesday, February 4, ordered the withdrawal of the US from participating in the UN’s Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO). The body uses history and culture to serve as a bridge-building mechanism among nations.

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Donald Trump has announced the withdrawal of the United States from two U.N. bodies and ordered the review of UNESCO.
Donald Trump has signed three new executive orders. Photo Credit: Getty Images
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At the signing of the executive orders, Trump said he assumed that the United Nations has lots of potential but has not been living up to expectations for a long time.

The US president remarked:

“There are great hopes for it, but it’s not being well-run, to be honest.”

Why Trump withdrew the US from UN bodies

The orders were said to have been billed as pushing back on “anti-American bias” at the UN. However, they were also signed shortly before the US president met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel.

Before now, the U.S. and Israel have accused the UN Human Rights Council of maligning and unfairly targeting Israel. The two countries withdrew from UNESCO in 2019 when Israel criticised the global agency as erasing the Jewish history within Israel's borders.

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When was Donald Trump sworn in?

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Donald Trump was sworn in as the 47th President of the United States (POTUS). The 78-year-old politician made a major comeback in the November presidential election, four years after Joe Biden defeated him.

Trump has also ordered the deployment of the military to work with the immigration and the US culture war as he resumed office for the second term.

Recall that Trump was a political outsider at his first-term inauguration in 2017. However, taking the oath of office on Monday, January 20, the US president said wealthy and powerful Americans surrounded him.

The second-term US president was flanked by the gang of Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Elon Musk, the world's richest man, and Amazon chief Jeff Bezos. The billionaires were said to have gotten a prime seat alongside Trump's cabinet members at the Capitol.

How Trump's order could help Nigeria

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Legit.ng earlier reported that President Trump's executive order to withdraw the US from the World Health Organisation (WHO) had been welcomed with mixed reactions.

Some experts claimed that the withdrawal would affect the international health group's activities in Nigeria and Africa because the US is the largest funder of the WHO.

However, Dr Ronke Agoro, a health expert, explained that the development might be an advantage for Nigeria to look inward and develop internal solutions to its internal health challenges.

Proofreading by Nkem Ikeke, journalist and copy editor at Legit.ng.

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Bada Yusuf (Politics and Current Affairs Editor) Yusuf Amoo Bada is an accomplished writer with 7 years of experience in journalism and writing, he is also politics and current affairs editor with Legit.ng. He holds B.A in Literature from OAU, and Diploma in Mass Comm. He has obtained certificates in Google's Advance Digital Reporting, News Lab workshop. He previously worked as an Editor with OperaNews. Legit’s Best Editor of the Year for Politics and Current Affairs Desk (2023). Contact: bada.yusuf.amoo@corp.legit.ng