Trump rejects global taxes and urges ICC withdrawals

President Donald Trump used his address to the United Nations General Assembly in New York on September 22 to reject global taxes and urge countries to withdraw from the International Criminal Court, framing both positions as defenses of national sovereignty. He did not outline specific new steps to implement the pledge against global taxes or his call for ICC members to leave. There is no global government, and while I am president, there will be no global taxes, Trump said, according to accounts of his remarks. He argued that international bodies were exceeding their proper role and criticized what he described as the influence of unelected bureaucracies over sovereign nations. Trump also called the ICC out of control, said it had no authority over the United States and vowed that the country would not allow US service members or others to be investigated by the court. He urged all ICC member countries to withdraw. The remarks expressed his administration’s position; the speech reports did not identify a new policy action or describe any member country responding to the appeal.