We don't need no steenkeen UN

The U.N.’s migration agency snubbed the Trump administration’s candidate to lead it on Friday, a major blow to U.S. leadership of a body addressing one of the world’s most pressing issues — and only the second time that it won’t be run by an American since 1951.

Portuguese Socialist and former European Union commissioner Antonio Vitorino won a race to be the next director-general of the International Organization for Migration.

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Trump has also yanked the United States out of the Global Compact for Migration — a fact that several diplomats, who requested anonymity because they were not authorized to speak on the record about the balloting, cited as a worrying sign about U.S. policies on an issue that has vast implications around the world.

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“This IOM election really was not about Ken Isaacs, for whom I have a lot of respect as a humanitarian,” [Mark Hetfield, a self-described friend of Isaacs who heads the humanitarian group HIAS] said. “The election was an international referendum rejecting President Trump and his xenophobic, Islamophobic and isolationist policies.”

  TPM

That goes without saying that it's about Trump, but it's also about the US candidate: Ken Isaacs.

Isaacs himself had been on the defensive over retweets and other social media comments that some critics viewed as anti-Muslim, so much so that he shut down his Twitter account. After that, he carefully stage-managed his media appearances and kept to script — with State Department handlers advising him or in tow.

Isaacs, a vice president at the evangelical Christian humanitarian group Samaritan’s Purse led by Pastor Franklin Graham, met with dozens of government officials during his months-long bid — working diligently to put to rest suspicions and pointing to his track record in the field and as a manager.

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Playing in Isaacs’ favor, along with the legacy of U.S. leadership, was money: The United States is traditionally the single biggest donor to the IOM, followed closely by the European Union.

One diplomat said “the change is surprising,” before alluding to Trump: “Maybe he will get the message.”

The message he'll get is he has to hit back.

I'm waiting for the day Trump kicks the UN out of the US.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.