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Trump's board of peace is an imperial court completely unlike what was proposed [View all]
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/20/trumps-board-of-peace-is-an-imperial-court-completely-unlike-what-was-proposedAnalysis
Trump’s board of peace is an imperial court completely unlike what was proposed
Julian Borger
Senior international correspondent
The US president’s global club was endorsed by the security council on a false prospectus and seems aimed at displacing the United Nations
Tue 20 Jan 2026 13.20 EST
Like many punters who have tried to do business with Donald Trump in the past, the UN has found itself a victim of a classic bait-and-switch, thinking it was buying one thing, but getting quite another.
When they voted to endorse the board of peace in November, other members of the UN security council hoped they were binding Trump into a Gaza peace process, but it now appears they were hoodwinked into backing a Trump-dominated pay-to-play club: a global version of his Mar-a-Lago court aimed at supplanting the UN itself.
The outline of Trump’s “board of peace” which has emerged over the past few days is a long way from the body that the council thought it was endorsing. Resolution 2803 was passed 13-0, with Russia and China abstaining, as an attempt to give a UN imprimatur to a Trump-brokered ceasefire in Gaza. The discussions leading up to the vote on 18 November, and the text of the resolution, were all about the conflict.
Handing control of Gaza to a Trump-run “board” for two years cut across longstanding UN principles of self-determination and national sovereignty and against colonialism. It was also vaguer than any other UN peacekeeping resolution in modern times.
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Trump’s board of peace is an imperial court completely unlike what was proposed
Julian Borger
Senior international correspondent
The US president’s global club was endorsed by the security council on a false prospectus and seems aimed at displacing the United Nations
Tue 20 Jan 2026 13.20 EST
Like many punters who have tried to do business with Donald Trump in the past, the UN has found itself a victim of a classic bait-and-switch, thinking it was buying one thing, but getting quite another.
When they voted to endorse the board of peace in November, other members of the UN security council hoped they were binding Trump into a Gaza peace process, but it now appears they were hoodwinked into backing a Trump-dominated pay-to-play club: a global version of his Mar-a-Lago court aimed at supplanting the UN itself.
The outline of Trump’s “board of peace” which has emerged over the past few days is a long way from the body that the council thought it was endorsing. Resolution 2803 was passed 13-0, with Russia and China abstaining, as an attempt to give a UN imprimatur to a Trump-brokered ceasefire in Gaza. The discussions leading up to the vote on 18 November, and the text of the resolution, were all about the conflict.
Handing control of Gaza to a Trump-run “board” for two years cut across longstanding UN principles of self-determination and national sovereignty and against colonialism. It was also vaguer than any other UN peacekeeping resolution in modern times.
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Trump’s board of peace is an imperial court completely unlike what was proposed
— The Guardian (@theguardian.com) 2026-01-20T18:57:43.918Z
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