Here Are The 128 Countries Who Are Now Dead To Nikki Haley Ambassador Haley threatened on Wednesday that Trump would be closely watching to see who voted in favor of a UN resolution on Trump's Jerusalem decision. It didn't work.
Break out the burn book: US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley now has more than half of the world on her shit list after a less-than-great vote at the UN General Assembly.
Thursday's meeting at the General Assembly was called after Haley used the US's position as a permanent member of the UN Security Council to veto a resolution in condemning Trump's decision earlier this month to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital.
All 14 other Security Council members, including the other four permanent members the United Kingdom, China, Russia, and France and US allies like Japan and Sweden, voted in favor of the resolution.
Thanks to a US-led move more than 50 years ago, the General Assembly has the ability to take up issues of matters of international peace and security normally the Security Council's gig if there's no agreement between the Council's permanent members. So that's a bit of a "whoops" for the US there.
In the run-up to Thursday's vote, Haley sent a letter around to all 192 members of the UN, warning that the US is "taking names" of those who vote against the US's decision.
"The president will be watching this vote carefully and has requested I report back on those who voted against us," read the letter, obtained by Israeli newspaper Haaretz.
While not quite as lopsided as predicted beforehand, the final result was a clear condemnation of the Trump decision. Many diplomats were reportedly unswayed by the vision of Trump as some kind of bizarro Santa Claus as depicted in Haley's letter. The Canadian delegation actually reportedly changed their vote from a "no" in support of the US to abstaining from the vote.
To give Ambassador Haley a hand in keeping track, here's everyone who's now totally on notice:
- Afghanistan - Albania - Algeria - Andorra - Angola - Armenia - Austria - Azerbaijan - Bahrain - Bangladesh - Barbados - Belarus - Belgium - Belize - Bolivia - Botswana - Brazil - Brunei Darussalam - Bulgaria - Burkina Faso - Burundi - Cambodia - Chad - Chile - China - Comoros - Congo - Costa Rica - Cote d'Ivoire - Cuba - Cyprus - Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) - Denmark - Djibouti - Doinica - Ecuador - Egypt - Eritrea - Estonia - Ethiopia - Finland - France - Gabon - Gambia - Germany - Ghana - Greece - Greneda - Guinea - Guyana - Iceland - India - Indonesia - Iran - Iraq - Ireland - Italy - Japan - Jordan - Kazakhstan - Kuwait - Kyrgyzstan - Laos - Lebanon - Liberia - Libya - Lichtenstein - Luxembourg - Madagascar - Malaysia - Maldives - Mali - Malta - Mauritania - Mauritius - Monaco - Montenegro - Morocco - Mozambique - Namibia - Nepal - Netherlands - New Zealand - Nicaragua - Niger - Nigeria - Norway - Oman - Pakistan - Papua New Guinea - Peru - Portugal
