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rc_mob | 7 months ago

What is with you people forgetting that Trump was president in 2018 and not Obama.

Why are you attributing Trumps actions to Obama. Stop it. Your comment is wholly dishonest.

Obama did not want to leave UNESCO. Period. Full stop.

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hersko|7 months ago

"The U.S. began defunding UNESCO under Obama..." what part about this is wrong?

robotnixon|7 months ago

It's misleading. Obama tried to maintain funding UNESCO:

"In 2011, the United States stopped funding Unesco because of what was then a forgotten, 15-year-old amendment mandating a complete cutoff of American financing to any United Nations agency that accepts Palestine as a full member. Various efforts by President Barack Obama to overturn the legal restriction narrowly failed in Congress, and the United States lost its vote at the organization after two years of nonpayment, in 2013."

https://web.archive.org/web/20220503183152/https://www.nytim...