The United States’ administration under President Donald Trump voted against 90 per cent of the resolutions passed with a vote by the United Nations General Assembly in 2025, says a report by a leading Japanese news channel.
Out of 187 such resolutions passed, the United States voted “no” on 170, being the only country to take such action on 43 occasions.
The UN General Assembly passed over 300 resolutions since Trump took office for the second term in January 2025, including the 187 mentioned above.
Earlier last month, during a General Assembly meeting, a US representative said many of the resolutions passed by the assembly last year were “nothing more than a globalist wishlist of divisive cultural causes”, including climate and gender issues.
“Such resolutions are completely at odds with the Trump administration’s bold, defiant, and pragmatic foreign policy. The US has and will continue to vote against such resolutions,” said Jonathan Shrier, the US Deputy Representative to the United Nations.
According to official statistics, the US, under the Joe Biden administration, had not voted against a UN resolution in 2024.
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Experts say foreign policy changes under the Trump administration clearly reflect the US government’s aim to reshape the world’s policy and international affairs over the next three years.
Richard Gowan, programme director at International Crisis Group, a think tank, said, “US allies, including EU nations, are frustrated and shocked to discover that the US will oppose resolutions that everyone else thinks are normal and acceptable.”
“The US has sacrificed a lot of influence in the UN system simply by being a spoiler and a very negative player,” he said, adding that “the Chinese see an opportunity in US behaviour”.
The US administration has been breaking away from an international rules-based order, as evident in the army attack on Venezuela and Trump’s brazen wish to take over Greenland.
The US President signed a memorandum earlier this month that authorises the withdrawal of his country from 66 international organisations, conventions and treaties, a sign of the country’s waning belief in an organisation it established after witnessing devastation in World War II.
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