Exclusive | Trump will call out ridiculous UN for claims US commits war crimes: Ambassador Waltz

TURTLE BAY — Last year, it was “a bad escalator and a bad teleprompter.”This year, expect “a healthy dose of continuing to call out the ridiculous” from President Trump during his address at the United Nations General Assembly, US Ambassador to the UN Mike Waltz told The Post in an exclusive interview.Trump chided members of the international peacekeeping body in his 2025 speech for providing only “empty words” that “don’t solve war” and is expected to rebuke the UN on Tuesday for accusing the US of war crimes.“The Human Rights Council, which is a separate part of the UN in Geneva, but still part of it … years ago had a George Floyd commission, and then just released a report … saying that US service members may have allegedly engaged in war crimes in Iran,” Waltz explained.“We have to remind people that, even when we have civilian casualties — and I’m not saying that’s the case, I think it’s still under investigation by the Pentagon — but even when we have them, it’s unintentional and it’s incidental as part of a conflict, as opposed to the Iranian regime machine-gunning 40,000 of its own people in the span of three or four days,” he said.“The fact that these parts of the UN continue to make that kind of ridiculous moral equivalence just overshadows in some cases the good work that it’s doing,” added Waltz.The US ambassador to the UN is also anticipating that Trump will discuss the importance of preserving the nation’s sovereignty, the “out of control” judiciaries like the International Criminal Court, and an “America First” foreign policy that’s led to reforms of the UN budget.“And then back to basics, right?” Waltz said.“He’s trying to cut these peace deals around the world.

It’s not easy, whether it’s on Ukraine or Azerbaijan or Armenia, and he needs the UN to focus on that.… That’s what the UN was invented for.”There’s also going to be UN Security Council meetings on the Ukrai...