Melania Trump, United Nations Security Council
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The United Nations says the United States has paid about $160 million of the nearly $4 billion it owes, and President Donald Trump is promising more money to the financially strapped world organization.
The U.S. had refused to pay off the huge debt owed to the United Nations, with additional debt for peacekeeping missions.
President Donald Trump hosted the first long-awaited Board of Peace meeting to address the next steps in the fragile ceasefire in Gaza, during which he gave a long, rambling speech about the United Nations, the Nobel Peace Prize, “young, handsome men” and more.
President Donald Trump took a victory lap in his 2026 State of the Union speech, during which he touted the economy, took jabs at Democrats and only briefly touched on foreign affairs.