Ambassador Nikki Haley has submitted her resignation on Tuesday, and says she will be leaving the post by the end of the year. President Trump praised Haley, saying they’d solved a lot of problems together.
In his comments, President Trump said that Haley had told him about six months ago that she wanted to take some time off. He says he will be naming a successor to the post of Ambassador to the UN on the coming weeks.
Haley’s stint as ambassador, like other recent US envoys to the UN, was heavily defined by US hostility toward the UN in general, reacting furiously to every UN attempt to rein in Israel, and condemning Russia and Iran every time the UN didn’t back a US position on Syria.
Her hawkish, bellicose tone had a lot of Western media outlets spinning her as a “voice of reason” resisting President Trump’s occasional peace-making impulses, and presenting her as a comparative moderate.
Though Haley at times clashed with Trump on policy matters, her resignation appears not to be the result of any specific disagreements, but rather just that she feels the two years she will have served by year’s end is enough.
Her post memorable spat with the White House has to be from April of this year, when she announced a round of sanctions against Russia, over Syria. The sanctions were not imposed, and officials suggested she got confused, leading her to fire back that “I don’t get confused.”
Because of her tone at the UN, Haley will be remembered as the face of surly, diplomacy-averse wing of the Trump Administration, whose first, second, and third impulses are all vvarious ways of confronting perceived international rivals.
That this is the way Ambassadors have played the UN post for years made her the media’s comfortable face of the status quo, during a time when the administration was broaching the subject of rapprochement with long-standing enemies.
Walking away from the Paris agreement, walking away from the Iran agreement and walking out of a UN commission is “solving problems”? If it is that easy I can now solve all of my problems.
I’m anxious to see who her replacement will be. I was told all these neocon appointees are just Trump appeasing a certain segment of the GOP. So now let us see if Trump starts appointing anti-war types, like himself, or will he fill the post with another Haley/Bolton/Pompeo clone.
And yes, that was a joke.
I’m thinking Haley’s replacement will be Jarvanka. It will get them out of D.C. and back to New York and will build their resumes. Not sure whether it will be Jared or Ivanka. Either one would be a disaster for peace.
Ivanka just tweeted that she is not interested in the UN slot.
Thank god.
Bon voyage, snarling Nikki.
I cannot say I am sorry to see her leaving, she was just as big a liar as her predecessor. It will be difficult to find another bald face liar completely devoid of shame, but I am sure they will even if they need to import one from Telaviv.
People appointed to UN can only be excellent liers. The top qualification for this job. UK has onother such female usefull idiot. Samantha Powers was another clone of the same female archetype of obedience to the powers in whose name they shamelessly lie. Please, Trump, appoint a good male lier. We need diversity!
I’m betting her replacement will either be Bolton or Cotton. The more one-eyed apoplexy they demonstrate on behalf of israel, the more likely it is they will be chosen.
No, Cotton wants to remain in the Senate. It is his dream to run for President, and the Senate is the best place to do that from. An appointment to the UN is too temporary.
“It is his dream to run for President, and the Senate is the best place to do that from.”
Not really. The US has elected only one US president direct from the Senate in the last 50 years (Barack Obama), and only three in its entire history (the other two were JFK and Warren G. Harding).
I stand corrected!
Eh, she probably didn’t embrace Kavanaugh properly.
Don’t get too happy, her stepping aside is only to give U.S. a facelift for a fresh negotiations. Haley was a Bolton stooge and unless Bolton is gone with her, the rhetoric in U.N will continue.
Nikki Haley, A Faithful to WAR CRIMINAL HINDU RSS’s TERRORISTS’ CONTROLLED INDIA, UP’s Chief Minister, besides Murder like Butchering The Minorities; Whose Official Policy Supported by India’s PM Modi, is to Rape India’s Girls, Women doesn’t matter young or old and Nikki is Quite about These and Other Atrocities by India’s Government: But Traitor to Her Own People, i.e., SIKH NATION etc., etc. For her own Benefit, Nikki, will Do Any Thing even Worse. So, Americans, Please, be Careful from People like her (NIKKI).
Good riddance to the screeching harpy.
Dang, for a sec there I thought I’d be reading an obit 🙂
I heard Lindsay Graham was on the list of potential candidates to replace her.We need someone strong on foreign policy, she was to nice for the job in my opinion.
Congratulations Americans for Nikki Haley’s resignation, being also Faithful to Murderer Narinder Modi, who Once was Denied American Visa for Modi’s Genocidal Policies towards India’s Minorities: Nikki was A Real Curse on U.S.A.
If Nikki Haley was mouthing all of those ridiculous threats to Russia, Iran, and N. Korea; and getting so sentimentally sloppy about that murderous, racist country of Israel because she was directed to and not because they weren’t her own foolish ideas – well then she deserves this year’s Best Actress from the Academy Awards because she sure fooled me. She had the sound and mannerisms at the UN of a neocon of the first order.
Good riddance but she will likely pop up somewhere else to push more insanity.