Once again President Trump has withdrawn the United States from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization after it rejoined two years ago in 2023, with The U.S. Department of State stating that “UNESCO works to advance divisive social and cultural causes and maintains an outsized focus on the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, a globalist, ideological agenda for international development at odds with our America First foreign policy. UNESCO’s decision to admit the ‘State of Palestine’ as a Member State is highly problematic, contrary to U.S. policy and contributed to the proliferation of anti-Israel rhetoric within the organization” and that “Pursuant to Article II(6) of the UNESCO Constitution, U.S. withdrawal will take effect on Dec. 31, 2026. The United States will remain a full member of UNESCO until that time.”
It seems with conflicting interests that Trump has with UNESCO and his executive order to withdraw earlier this year, he has gotten the United States to take its leave as, according to Politico, White House Deputy Press Secretary Anna Kelley has stated that “President Trump has decided to withdraw the United States from UNESCO — which supports woke, divisive cultural and social causes that are totally out-of-step with the commonsense policies that Americans voted for in November.”
People seem to be split on Trump’s decision, as some support Trump’s decision to withdraw while many others disagree with Trump’s decision to do so as, according to The Guardian, “A US withdrawal, to take effect in Dec. 2026, will be a blow to UNESCO’s work on education, culture and combating hate speech. But officials at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris had been braced for a potential US departure during Trump’s second term.”
