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President Trump has mentioned the names of two people he thinks would be suitable replacements for Elise Stefanik. One is David Friedman, the former American ambassador to Israel, and the second is Ric Grenell, who was formerly the head of National Intelligence and the American ambassador to Germany. More on those possible choices, and others who might be considered, can be found here: “Trump considers former ambassadors Grenell, Friedman for U.N. role,” by Jeff Mason, Reuters, April 1, 2025:
President Donald Trump said on Monday he had several potential candidates for U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, including Richard Grenell, a former ambassador to Germany, and David Friedman, a former envoy to Israel.
Last week Trump withdrew the nomination of Representative Elise Stefanik for the job over concerns that her exit from the House of Representatives could threaten Republicans’ narrow majority.
Asked on Monday who he was considering instead, Trump said as many as 30 people were interested in the job.
He listed Grenell, now a special envoy for his administration, as well as the interim president of the Kennedy Center, and Friedman, the ambassador to Israel during Trump’s first term in office.
Grenell, a homosexual who believes his appointment by Trump proves that there is no anti-homosexual bias in the administration, does have many detractors. Susan E. Rice, a Democrat who served as the American ambassador to the UN from 2009 to 2013, has described Grenell as “one of the most nasty, dishonest people I’ve ever encountered.” The senior journalist Irwin Arieff, who worked for Reuters, has also come down hard on Grenell as “the most dishonest and deceptive press person I ever worked with.” The Democrats would certainly bring up these judgments in any Senate hearing on his appointment, and the administration might want to spare itself another difficult confirmation.
“We have a lot of good people that want it,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office.
“We have a lot of people that have asked about it, would like to do it: David Friedman, Ric Grenell, and maybe 30 other people. Everyone loves that position. That’s a star-making position.”
Some have suggested as a possible candidate the former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, who already served as the US ambassador to the United Nations during the first part of Trump’s first term. She ran against Trump for the Republican presidential nomination last year and lost. Trump is unlikely to appoint Nikki Haley because of her comments about him during the race for the Republican presidential nomination. He certainly has not mentioned her as a possible candidate.
What about David Friedman? He is Jewish, and a former American ambassador to Israel. He is perhaps too closely identified with the Likud Party for Israel’s own good; in the General Assembly, he will be seen by many as a handmaiden to the Israeli UN Mission. He was confirmed by the Senate as ambassador by a slim margin; only two Democrats — Menendez and Manchin — voted for him. But he has argued eloquently for dropping what he sees as the dangerous “two-state solution” in favor of a modified “one-state solution.” He wants Israel to hold onto Judea and Samaria, and seems to share Netanyahu’s view: that Israel should provide the Palestinian Arabs with “all of the power to govern themselves but none of the power to harm Israel.”
However, there are other candidates whom I hope President Trump will consider. One is Ritchie Torres, the Democratic Congressman from New York’s 15th Congressional district, the poorest district in the United States. Both of his parents were Puerto Rican. Torres was raised in the Bronx projects; he never completed college, but holds his eloquent own in debates. He calls himself a Zionist, saying that a 2015 visit to Israel was “eye-opening,” and he has been described as “aggressively pro-Israel.” However, he still believes in that will-o’-the-wisp, a “two-state solution,” which, after the attacks carried out by Hamas on October 7, 2023, very few Israelis now support. Perhaps Torres will change his mind once he talks to enough Israelis, and discovers the depth of their opposition, and after he has considered, too, what it would mean for Israel’s survival, if every plan for a two-state-solution proposed so far has required it to be squeezed back, with very slight adjustments, within the 1949 armistice lines, with a nine-mile-wide waist from Qalqilya to the sea.
There is one candidate, so far not mentioned by anyone, who could be the ideal American ambassador to the UN. That is Ayaan Hirsi Ali, born in Somalia and raised as a Muslim. When growing up, she lived in Somalia, Saudi Arabia, Ethiopia, and Kenya, and as a young woman moved to the Netherlands where she became fluent in Dutch and was elected to the Dutch Parliament. She now lives in California, married to the historian Niall Ferguson.. She has converted to Christianity. Ayaan Hirsi Ali knows, from the inside, what Islam teaches, including the hatred of non-Muslims, and the many Qur’anic verses, and the hundreds of Hadith that exhort Muslims to commit violence against Infidels. At the UN, she would be the Muslim ambassadors’ nightmare. Imagine her quoting from the Qur’an in the General Assembly, noting the verse proclaiming that Muslims are “the best of peoples”(3:110) and non-Muslims are “the most vile of created beings” (98:6). Or think of her quoting the verses instructing Muslims to “strike at the necks” of the unbelievers (47:4) and several dozen other Qur’anic passages of similar homicidal import.
Should the treatment of women be under discussion at the General Assembly, Hirsi Ali can describe the conditions that she endured growing up as a Muslim in three Muslim countries. She can explain that a Muslim husband can “beat” his wife if he even suspects her of disobedience; that he can divorce her by uttering the “triple-talaq,” that he has the power of life and death over his wife and children; that Muslim daughters inherit only half of what Muslim sons are provided; that the testimony of Muslim women is worth only half that of Muslim men. She can tell the General Assembly about little Aisha being betrothed to Muhammad when she was six, and how that “marriage” was consummated when she was nine and he was 54. And because of Muhammad’s example, she can explain, there are Muslims today who want to reduce the marriageable age of girls in their countries to nine, or if not nine, then as close to nine as possible. After the Iranian revolution, Ayaan Hirsi Ali can say, the marriageable age for girls was reduced from 18 to 13. She can explain that Muhammad is the Model of Conduct (“uswa hasana”) and the Perfect Man (“al-insan al-kamil”), to be emulated by Muslims today. Ayaan Hirsi Ali is formidable in debate. One example can be found here.
The squirming and embarrassment and fury among the Muslim delegates in the General Assembly would be a sight to behold. What can they say? How dare she quote from the Qur’an which, they will claim, “the American ambassador simply does not understand”? And if some delegate from a Muslim land attempts to suggest that Ayaan Hirsi Ali “does not know the Hadith and therefore cannot fully understand Islam,” she will be quick to respond with the two most embarrassing of the ahadith, as found in the sahih collections of both Bukhari and Muslim, when Muhammad says “I have been made victorious through terror,” and when he claims “War is deceit.” She will, at every debate in the General Assembly, contribute from her bully pulpit at the U.N. to the non-Muslim world’s understanding of Islam. She’ll be a one-woman multitude, impossible either to silence or refute.
Please consider her, President Trump. Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a beautiful, articulate black woman who, as an ex-Muslim who has lived in Africa, Europe, and the United States, can present the case against Islam and for Western civilization better than anyone else.
Yes, that seems like a good choice 🙂
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Excellent choice!
I highly recommend her book Infidel. The UN had better provide extra security. There are no doubt many Muslims that would like to see her killed since she left Islam. Lan Astalem
Her book “Prey” is also a great read. The woman is a living legend.
That would be so awesome!!!! So brilliant, so strong, so heroic.
I’ve seen her on various news programs and right off, you could easily see how courageous and impressive she is.
I think it was Columbia University that rescinded her honorary degree due to outside pressure.. Bad on them.
Like the first commenter, I think she is an excellent choice too.
It was Brandeis University which withdrew her degree.
I told a liberal niece that Jewish Republicans are morally superior to any and all “Reform Cult ‘Rabbis’ because it is WE who support Ayaan Hirsi Ali……even as liberal ‘rabbi’s call her a “self-hating” Muslim.
What was she supposed to do to make a lib happy with her? Marry an old guy before she turned 14?
Giving the President a Blow Job seems to gain approval.
I have had tremendous respect for Ayan Hirsi Ali for many years. She would be the best Ambassador to the UN since US Ambassador Jean Kirkpatrick who was the first woman appointed to that position and served from 1981 -1985. She is known for her famous ‘Blame America First’ Speech at the GOP Convention in 1984. She NEVER clutched her pearls. She was an inspiring advocate FOR America and she would endorse Ayan Hirsi Ali in a heartbeat ! We could not have a better or more brilliant Ambassador to the UN or as a perfect Successor to Jean Kirkpatrick. Ayan has survived a lifetime of death threats and round the clock Body Guards and is tough as nails and a true Warrior for Human Rights. I include Ayan in my prayers always. She is a Great American.
Jean Kirkpatrick was the ultimate Reagan Democrat….one of the last great Democrats. It is hard to fathom that such Democrats as she and Delaniel Patrick Moynihan ever even existed.
As an aside, when the likes of Susan Rice (Susan Rice? remember her ridiculous weekly appearances telling “ Bagdad Bob: level lies on TV?) calls Grenell a liar, I conclude that he is 100% honest. How can you quote her and others like her with a straight face?
The opposite of a straight face is a shit-eating grin.
I’m not a fan of Rice, but I believe her remarks about Grenell. If appointed to any position having authority he will colonize everything around him with more homosexuals.
Trump needs to dump him along with Paula White.
Anyone supported by Trump will be opposed by the Dems and therefore thats more reasons why Trumps Choices will work out for America
Saw the picture. Agreed.
It would be better to simply leave the UN altogether and send the whole corrupt organisation out of the US.
Evict the whole UN and turn the place into a Homeless Shelter run by a the Church and Train them to live in a Home and hold a job and move Coffee Cup Annan back to where he came from in the first place
Susan Rice calling someone nasty and dishonest. That’s funny.
Is this writer for real? Spreading rumors about Mr. Grenell, #1.
I for one, if Susan Rice can’t stand him, would make him move to the front of the line.
His 1st choice recommendation is a Democrat. Are you flipping crazy. NO DEMOCRATS, EVER! If you are a Democrat today, you ARE NOT, in anyway a person Trump voters wants representing them at the UN. I don’t care if Rep. Torres, is the nicest guy in the world. He is still a Democrat, which means, the nicest guy in the world, thinks killing an 9 month old baby in the womb is exceptable. That mutilating children under 18 is acceptable. That is the Democrat party platform, not my opinion. You are fundamentally, evil if you support those positions, and will have have to answer to God, IMO.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali on the other hand, would be a wonderful pick, for the UN. I have been a fan for many years. She has a calm, articulate and resolute disposition. She would be an excellent choice.
Richard Grenell is a homosexual? I guess I do remember that being brought up but easily forgotten because he keeps his personal life out of his professional duties as opposed to homosexual Democrats in government making their preferences a part of their agenda to shove their lifestyle in our faces and demanding we accept it.
I’m not sure if Trump reads FrontPage. So this post needs to be gotten to him somehow. She most definitely is far and away the best and only candidate for the job.
Although she would be awesome at the UN and drive Islamists crazier than they already are, I prefer that President Trump gets the USA out of that vile, stinking pile of sewage and put American $$$$’s much better uses. Like, buying Kanada 🙂 🙂 C’mon now. We are all North Americans, aren’t we?
He could give every Canadian family that is pro 51st State and been a Canadian citizen more than 20 years $100,000.00, more than 10 yrs. but less than 20 $50,000.00 and more than 5 yrs. but less than 10, $10,000.00 and fine all those Kanadians who are against 51st Statehood an initial $1,000.00 and increasing it by 5% every month they delay. If they still don’t get aboard the ‘Trump Train’ by the end of 6 months, deport them all to Bangladesh for 12 months so they can experience what Trump is trying to save them from.
The Art of the Deal !!!!!!!
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Typical Canadians are leftists, All of the chickens who ran from the U.S. draft during the Viet Nam conflict went to Canada.. The majority of Canadians don’t want us, and I don’t want them.
An excellent choice and what an education on real Islam she would give the world.
Mr.Fitzgerald, Please Call President Trump…this is a 911 call for the world!!!
May G-d Almighty aid in both her nomination, acceptance and approval!
Expanding light into the UN darkness!!!
She would be outstanding!
Thank you!
No doubt she would be the foremost US representative in the UN in the last 76 years
Best choice: Female, African, Articulate, fully knowledgeable and no one in the USA political arena is equal to her
Someone should bring her to the attention of Trump, Lara or Eric
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Ali Hirsi? Hear! Hear!
Wonderful idea! I hope he sees this!
I have watched her from afar since her time in the Netherlands and read all of her Books and America would be well served if she accepted that Post at the UN.
However having written that I would be happier if the UN was kicked out of NYC and they can have a building in Geneva, after all Switzerland is always playing the neutral game.
OPEC is in control of the UN since many years and that’s why so many countries vote against Israel every chance they get otherwise their supply of Oil will change as OPEC tells them which way to vote.