Trump amplifies ambassador’s vow to force NATO-style reforms on the UN

Trump shares a report on U.N. Ambassador Mike Waltz's pledge to cut bureaucracy, slash peacekeeping and defund UNRWA over ties to the Oct. 7 attack.

First Published: September 6, 2026, 8:56 PM ET

WASHINGTON D.C. — Donald J. Trump amplified a pledge from his ambassador to the United Nations to force NATO-style reforms on the global body after revelations that a U.N. relief agency funded workers tied to the 2023 terrorist attack in Israel.

The post pointed to remarks by U.N. Ambassador Mike Waltz, who vowed to slim the organization through privatization and accountability measures, according to Just the News. Waltz said the effort mirrors the pressure campaign Trump waged on NATO to make allies shoulder a greater share of costs, according to justthenews. “What President Trump has done with NATO, we’re looking to do to the United Nations,” he said in an interview on the Just the News, No Noise television show, according to justthenews.

“The charge from the president is to clean this place up and get it working for the American people,” Waltz said, according to Just the News.

Here is the full post on truthsocial: “Trump ambassador vows NATO-like reforms to UN after terror scandal: “Clean this place up”: https://Just the News/government/federal-agencies/clean-place-trump-ambassador-vows-nato-reforms-un-after-terror-scandal” on September 6, 2026 at 8:49 PM ET.

This is Trump’s 39th message released today, and the last post was 19 minutes ago, and it is not part of a thread. On average, Trump produces 18 posts per day since his inauguration on January 20, 2025. The move fits a broader pattern in Trump’s recent messaging, with 81 of his 641 posts over the last 30 days classified as Foreign Policy posts.

47th President of the United States Donald J. Trump amplified his ambassador's vow to force NATO-style reforms on the United Nations at WASHINGTON D.C.

Waltz tied the reform drive to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, which he criticized for close ties to the terror group Hamas, according to Just the News. Trump ended funding for UNRWA after taking office in 2025, according to justthenews. The USAID inspector general revealed last month that more than 100 workers funded by the agency have been identified as having participated in the Oct. seven, 2023, Hamas atrocities in Israel, according to justthenews.

The administration has already forced changes at the world body. “We forced them to take their first budget cut ever in their 80-year history,” Waltz said, according to Just the News. He said the U.N. plans to fire 3,000 bureaucrats out of its headquarters building in New York, according to justthenews.

Waltz described a broader effort to shrink the organization’s global footprint. “And then there’s 90,000 U.N. peacekeepers around the world. We’ve cut 25% of them. So we put the U.N. on a diet,” he said, according to Just the News. As the largest contributor to the U.N., the United States plans a next round of reforms modeled after Trump’s push to make European allies pick up a greater share of the NATO burden, according to justthenews.

Waltz framed the changes as an effort to make American aid leaner and more accountable. “The American people are generous people when it comes to tsunamis or earthquakes, like we just had in Venezuela, or other types of famine,” he said, according to Just the News. “But we need to know that it’s not filtering through a bloated bureaucracy; that it’s actually getting to people in need,” he added, according to justthenews. Trump directed readers to the report by mentioning the source (see justthenews).