Nadene Goldfoot
President Trump launched his Board of Peace at the Davos economic forum today. About 35 countries have committed to join, according to U.S. officials. Countries represented at the launch included Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Turkey, Belarus, Bahrain and Morocco, as well as Argentina, Indonesia, Pakistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan and Paraguay.
Israel and Hungary have also said they will join.
France, Great Britain aren't joining and
China and Russia are thinking about it, although Trump said that Putin had already agreed to join.
Trump has said permanent members would be required to contribute $1 billion each to help fund the board.
It is to be governed by its own private charter which only names one person, "Chairman Trump," who may adopt resolutions or initiatives on its behalf without consulting the board, and who is a member for life.
Experts said Trump is trying to make the organization into an alternative to the United Nations Security Council where only he has veto power.
Trump said on 20 January 2026 that "the United Nations never helped me" as a reason for his creation of the "Board of Peace," claiming his board "might" replace the United Nations.
It has been described as a vanity project. After not getting the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize, Trump said he no longer feels an "obligation to think purely of Peace". The Guardian called it "a Trump-dominated pay-to-play club: a global version of his Mar-a-Lago court aimed at supplanting the UN itself," arguing that the body ultimately outlined bore little resemblance to what the United Nations Security Council believed it was endorsing.
The UN has failed Israel, so I have given up on it bringing any peace to Israel or the rest of the world. This Board of Peace is not suitable, either. It's an extension of an emperor's plans to rule the world. Trump's not the world's idea of the Messiah who is to bring peace to this crazy world.
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