Trump Says U.S. Will Commit $10 Billion to His Board of Peace

[dalton99a]

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/02/19/us/trump-news#section-792964749

President Says U.S. Will Commit $10 Billion to His Board of Peace

Trump just said the United States would pay $10 billion into the Board of Peace, which he created and leads.

He gave no details on where the money would come from or if the administration had even requested it from Congress, which would have to approve the funds.

Trump described the Board of Peace as an institution that would “strengthen up the United Nations,” perhaps answering those who questioned whether he was trying to set up a competitor to the U.N. But he also described the Board as a group that is “going to almost be looking over the United Nations and making sure it runs properly.”

The Charter of the United Nations, signed in San Francisco in 1945, does not provide for any oversight organization.

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Bessent will approve transfer of funds from U.S. Treasury

[durablend]

1. Oooh oooh oooh I know I know

He gave no details on where the money would come from

Three guesses!

[Prairie Gates]

6. Equally concerned about where it's GOING, if I'm honest

How are MAGAs not up in arms? $10 billion to build luxury hotels in fucking Gaza? And for payoffs to various oil sheiks and Knesset insiders?

Completely unallocated by any Congressional act of any kind, and funneled into an organization with no government standing that was simply made up whole cloth by Jared fucking Kushner? How is your average Oklahoman not in the damn barn looking for the pitchfork? Oh, yeah, I forgot, they're too busy fighting meth charges and trying to put out the wildfires.

[dalton99a]

8. .

[leftstreet]

2. If only we had 3 co-equal branches of govt

I guess I completely misunderstood the entire set up

[dalton99a]

3. We are witnessing rampant looting and thievery, in broad daylight.

[leftstreet]

11. It's like reform school with no teacher n/t

[markodochartaigh]

13. I think that it is more like a

wealthy boarding school whose staff are bought and paid for by the students' parents. Not coincidentally that is where many of our psychopathic oiligarchs went to school.

[oasis]

4. "Making sure U.N. runs properly".

Those words flow naturally from this self-centered, arrogant prick.

[Prairie Gates]

5. So a President can just invent an entity and then fund it out of the US Treasury?

Good to know for when the next President invents the Board of Ending Homelessness and gives it $100 billion to house the unhoused. After that, the Board of Eliminating Medical Debt, which the President will decided needs $600 billion over 4 years.

Tra la!

[kentuck]

7. Is this the $10 billion dollars he is going to take from the taxpayers...?

...when he sues the IRS?

Board of Peace?

Or Board of Corruption?

[dalton99a]

9. No, this is something new

It's for peace in Gaza, Trump style

[Traildogbob]

10. If we have

An alternative SOTU Dems must have a PowerPoint showing the spending dollar by dollar and demonstrate the hundreds billions of our dollars spent on Trump and his peeps and the dollars spent on us.
Plus show how damn far above approved budgets they already have gone. Include potential war, and the coast if deploying a huge fleet if we don’t have a shoot out.
Trump and his rapepubliCONS treat our taxes like and endless piggy bank, for them, fuck budget limits.
Also, list names and put up power points showing unredacted sex acts from the trumpstein files.
Put our best reps up to go through it all. Crocket and AOC would be a good start.
Who the fuck wants to see Trump, flanked by Moses and JD smirking as they lie their asses off. All pedi perves. Let Bruce and Bono offer some pre event music
Hell we could invite MTG in her big white coat take is through some of the secret.
Wanna bet who wins the ratings? It would be more embarrassing to GQP than the Super bowl halftime battle.
Just suggestions.

[purr-rat beauty]

12. But hey...Fuck the USA

Making every sheisty asshole richer through corruption again

[SamKnause]

14. That sick evil fuck sure likes to spend other people's money.

[sinkingfeeling]

15. Not with my tax dollars!

[C_U_L8R]

16. Impeachable self-dealing

What the fuck happened to the party of fiscal responsibility???!!! It was a lies, a myth… right?

[progressoid]

20. They gave up on that during one of the Gulf wars.

[Ray Bruns]

17. $10 billion dollars from whom?

[progressoid]

19. And too whom?

[maxsolomon]

18. Taking a wrecking ball to the entire planet

Trying to occupy the thoughts of every person on the planet.

His narcissism knows no bounds.

[Puppyjive]

21. Does Trump hold the power of the purse?

I thought that was the job of Congress.

[Martin Eden]

22. The head of the "Board of Peace" is about to launch a major war against Iran

Neither of which has been authorized by Congress.