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Trump Pulls US Out of UN Cultural Agency UNESCO for Second Time
Reuters and Algemeiner Staff
July 22, 2025

President Donald Trump has decided to pull the United States out of the “woke” and “divisive” UN culture and education agency UNESCO, the White House said on Tuesday, repeating a move he took in his first term that was reversed by Joe Biden…White House spokeswoman Anna Kelly said UNESCO “supports woke, divisive cultural and social causes that are totally out-of-step with the commonsense policies that Americans voted for.” The State Department accused UNESCO of supporting “a globalist, ideological agenda for international development at odds with our America First foreign policy.” It said its decision to admit the Palestinians as a member state was “highly problematic, contrary to US policy, and contributed to the proliferation of anti-Israel rhetoric.” READ MORE