International relationships through Trump’s Executive Order lens…
Trump’s Executive Orders - A deep dive: Episode 3
Date recorded: Feb 20, 2025
Description:
Join Terra and Peter in the final episode of Trump’s Executive Orders where they’ll walk you through what’s going on with the World Health Organization ‘withdrawal’, what the renewed membership in the Geneva Consensus Declaration means and the White House’s Israel influence (hint: it runs deep).
Show notes:
Update on World Health Organization withdrawal:
Five days after signing the EO to leave the WHO, Trump stated to reporters:
“I withdrew from the World Health Organization…. But maybe we would consider doing it again. I don’t know. Maybe we would. They have to clean it up a little bit.”
Congressional Research Service report, Jan 29, 2025:
https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IN/IN12496
PUTTING AMERICA FIRST IN INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL AGREEMENTS, Jan. 20, 2025:
Renewed Membership in the Geneva Consensus Declaration press statement, Jan. 24, 2025:
https://documents.un.org/doc/undoc/gen/n20/344/30/pdf/n2034430.pdf
United States Renewed Membership in the Geneva Consensus Declaration on Promoting Women’s Health and Strengthening the Family:
Additional measures to combat anti-semitism, January 29, 2025:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/additional-measures-to-combat-anti-semitism/
Withdrawing funding from certain UN agencies and reviewing support of international organizations, February 4, 2025:
IMPOSING SANCTIONS ON THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT, February 6, 2025:
Overview of the “Situation in the State of Palestine” case:
https://www.icc-cpi.int/palestine
US Senator Lindsey Graham chimed in too (Aug 2024):
https://www.icc-cpi.int/sites/default/files/CourtRecords/0902ebd180923d41.pdf