“The Greatest and Most Prestigious Board ever assembled,” Says Trump
Trump’s Board of Peace
Time reports Trump Sets Price Tag for Peace Board Membership
Donald Trump has described his proposed “Board of Peace”—the body that will oversee the transition and reconstruction of the war-wrought Gaza Strip—as “the Greatest and Most Prestigious Board ever assembled at any time, any place.” But that prestige apparently comes with a hefty price tag.
Countries will have to cough up at least $1 billion in order to secure a permanent seat on the board, according to a draft charter, while other members will have three-year terms. Bloomberg first reported on the high fee, and The Times of Israel posted a copy of the draft charter text.
“Each Member State shall serve a term of no more than three years from this Charter’s entry into force, subject to renewal by the Chairman. The three-year membership term shall not apply to Member States that contribute more than USD $1,000,000,000 in cash funds to the Board of Peace within the first year of the Charter’s entry into force,” the draft reportedly says.
Putin invited to join Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ for Gaza
CNN Reports Putin invited to join Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ for Gaza
Russian President Vladimir Putin has been invited to join US President Donald Trump’s “Board of Peace,” the committee that will oversee the reconstruction of Gaza, his spokesman said on Monday.
Speaking to reporters during a regular media briefing, Dmitry Peskov said: “President Putin also received through diplomatic channels an invitation to join this Board of Peace.”
He said the Kremlin is now reviewing the invitation and “hoping to get more details from the US side.”
‘Greatest Board Ever’
Described by Trump as the “the Greatest and Most Prestigious Board ever assembled,” the committee will include former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio. [Note: Carney is not no board and has set conditions]
Trump has also invited Israel to join the board as a founding member state, a senior Israeli official told CNN on Monday. According to the official, the invitation was extended to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu or another Israeli representative on his behalf.
Members of the committee will receive a permanent seat if they pay $1 billion, according to a US official, who told CNN that, while there was no requirement to contribute funds to the board, members who do not make the $1 billion payment will have a three-year term.
Trump Wants His Peace Board Signed in Davos. Macron Declines
Bloomberg comments Trump Wants His Peace Board Signed in Davos. Macron Declines
France’s Emmanuel Macron, for one, has come right out of the gate to decline an invitation that was also extended to strongmen such as Belarus’s autocratic leader Alexander Lukashenko. Several liberal democracies are squirming, uncertain how to respond and not wanting to offend Trump.
They don’t have long to decide.
Trump wants the full constitution and remit of the committee signed in Davos on Thursday, according to people familiar with the matter. But some elements of the small print have left invitees wondering whether to accept.
Much of the concern centers on the wording of the peace board’s charter, seen by Bloomberg, which appears to place its ultimate decision-making power with Trump. That raises many questions — not least over where the payments for long-term membership would go, the people said.
So far, only Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has publicly pushed back against the proposal. While he’s in favor of the Board of Peace as a concept, his office said the make-up of a separate Gaza committee serving under the board, was “not coordinated with Israel and runs contrary to its policy,” after officials from Qatar and Turkey were included.
Others suggested they’d seek changes. Carney said that while he’s up for joining the board, “in principle,” the terms would need to be discussed. A person familiar with the matter made clear Canada would not pay the fee. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer declined to endorse the board, saying only that he’d talk with allies about a response.
Former British premier Tony Blair, who was appointed as an executive to the board, is playing a key role behind the scenes along with Trump’s envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, the people familiar with the situation added.
Privately, senior European officials are more strongly critical. Several told Bloomberg they saw it as a clear attempt by Trump to set up a rival or replacement for the United Nations, a body of which he has been a long-standing critic. They said the board was about far more than the reconstruction of Gaza and that Trump sees it as a vehicle to resolve other conflicts and control international events.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has been invited by Trump to join the peace board, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Monday. Moscow aims to contact the US side to clarify all the details of the proposal, he said.
A European official called that move farcical in light of Putin’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine and said they had no doubt that the Russian leader would be delighted to accept. They warned it confirmed the dilemma for the continent: go along with what Trump wants or risk further splitting apart the transatlantic alliance.
Trump’s $1 Billion-a-Seat Diplomacy Club Takes Aim at the U.N.
The Wall Street Journal reports Trump’s $1 Billion-a-Seat Diplomacy Club Takes Aim at the U.N.
President Trump has expanded the mission of his proposed Gaza Board of Peace into a global body that would take on the role mediating conflicts currently held by the United Nations and carry a $1 billion fee for a permanent seat, according to a charter sent to prospective members.
The expansive mandate underscored Trump’s accelerating push to replace the international system established by the U.S. after World War II, which he has attacked for years as ineffective, with a new structure built around himself that bypasses existing multilateral institutions. Earlier this month he pulled the U.S. out of 31 U.N. agencies and bodies, saying they operated “contrary to U.S. national interests.”
“It’s hard not to read this as an attempt to establish a precedent in Gaza that could be used elsewhere in terms of saying that Trump is going to be calling the global shots here, and you either fall in line or you’re not part of the process,” said Julien Barnes-Dacey, director of the Middle East and North Africa program at the European Council on Foreign Relations.
Around 60 governments have received invitations to join the board, but the reaction from most has been cautious so far. Asked Monday about the Trump plan, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer told reporters: “We’re talking to allies about the terms of the Board of Peace.”
In an invitation sent Friday to Egypt’s president, Abdel Fattah Al Sisi, Trump described the board as “a distinguished group of nations ready to shoulder the noble responsibility of building LASTING PEACE.” Sisi hasn’t responded to the invitation.
Several Arab countries object to involving the board in other conflicts, saying it should be exclusively focused on carrying out the Gaza peace plan at first, officials said. It is risky to create an alternative global peace and security architecture under Trump’s control, they added.
As chairman, Trump would have wide authority over the new organization, with the power to appoint and remove member states, as well as a veto over its decisions. The charter specifies that the board’s decisions will be “made by a majority of the member states present and voting, subject to the approval of the chairman, who may also cast a vote in his capacity as chairman in the event of a tie.”
It also reserves for the chairman the “exclusive authority” to create other entities to carry out the board’s mission.
You have to be truly brain dead to give $1 billion to Trump, controlled by Trump, Steve Witkoff, and Jared Kushner.
I doubt any country will donate, except perhaps the US (the latter not appropriated by Congress).
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Who cares?
Board of peace or maybe Bored of Peace.
Quoting Jo from Jerz. Mish, come on.
New horizons in grifting!
Will the membership fees be held offshore in the Venezuela oil account that Trump personally custodies?
A billion dollars?????????????
Mrs Adelson got her wars for only $150 million.
The price of US Hessians is going up! Talk about inflation!
Just read from Reuters Trump is trying to blackmail the French to join up to his money racket scam by threatening 200% tariffs on Champaign etc if they don’t join up! The whole tariff thing has just entered a new level of farce
The level is called “F your dollar denominated debt”
Petulant child POTUS
Well depends. Maybe that $1 billion can get you some benefits, like the US waging a war on your behalf.
The Republican party has been taken over by Putin. Literally doing nothing as NATO falls apart is exactly what Putin wanted.
Bullshit. The Republican party has been taken over by grifters beholden to Israeli, corporatist, MIC interests, and DJT bootlickers. NATO ought to fall apart as it should have been abandoned after the USSR collapse, and has brought us closer than ever to WW3.
”Hey, give me your lunch money and I won’t invade your nation. I don’t care where it comes from, just hand it over to Kushner. I can’t get my hands dirty. In return you get to join my exclusive club and my personal guarantee and no one else with mess with you!”
This guy is bat shit crazy
As an American, this is is so embarrassing.
The orange narcissus is destroying our beautiful country and the unique culture experiment started 250 years ago. Shame on all the ignorant morons who continue to support this a-hole, including the congress
Is that more embarrassing or the fact that 30% or more of Americans see him as the closest thing to Jesus since the Jesus story originated?
How is Trump making a board of peace when he has no authority over Gaza?
israel is an amerikan colony and useful idiot, in our mafia style petrodollar protection racket on a critical geographic land bridge to 3 continents.
There’s no international laws these days – he can do whatever he wants, who’s offering any impactful resistance?
The mad king continues his lunacy. This IS his specialty. Create a sense of exclusivity and FOMO. Note the personal invitations and deadline. How many casinos did he run into the ground? Who gets the billion dollars? And why even a billion dollars. Oh, that’s right. It’s the billionaire’s boys club. He must have just watched the movie and got himself another “brilliant” idea. Anyone who associates himself with total BS thinking they’ll gain his favor is a sucker and a chump. The only people I see interested are Putin, because he knows how to play mind games, and some 2 bit dictators who want some clout.
Becoming a member of that board is as real as becoming a banker in Monopoly.
You get to touch money as banker in Monopoly
Title–Trump Sets $1 Billion Price for Peace Board Membership…….But I wonder if someone made a typo error? Piece, (not Peace) –Membership for a Piece of the Spoils?
Should it be Piece Board – I have this piece, you have that piece ……..
The peace and stability barometer is the gold and silver market. If global leadership is faltering? They both go up…
Gold is at a record high and so is silver. Any questions?
Got mining shares and a couple little stacks?
Trump selling board seats is very similar to selling a senate nomination, no wonder he pardoned Blagovitch
As President/Dictator of Venezuela, does Trump get a second seat?
Why would anyone want to be associated with Trump? Epstein for sure… but seriously, who would be low enough to take this asshole seriously?
hello Frosty ? where have you been the past 50 years in amerika. democracy works. trump is amerikan as apple pie
Nope, he is far worse… IMO…
But to answer your question from the other thread. I prefer real farmland and do not have any insight into Farmland REIT’s. If I have time I will take a look at the market and get back to you.
thanks so much…..hat tip to you. per trump, of course he is the worst. but amerikans are getting worse and worse with each decade the past 60 years. shit happens to evil empires. we have been invading foreign lands under the sword since at least 1898 when Teddy invaded Cuba…………plato and socrates explained it best in “the republic”. democracy works. don’t do it if you have assholes in your city state. guess what. we are loaded with a majority of assholes in the amerikan empire for decades. an ugly truth. glad i figured this out as a young fella decades ago. much easier to face reality with no delusions, whatever the reality is. hat tip the, lao tzu of the tao te ching and buddha.
Ok, piggies… defend this. Show your love for daddypig.
This is just a mafia-style protection racket.
Just another grifter scam. Gold spray paint on a pig…
amerika has been doing that mafia style protection with petro dollar warfare since old henry and tricky dick. for fucks sake kids, this is elementary school level shit.
what the petro dollar has been since kissenger invented that scheme.
Going to bed now (in Europe), REALLY scared to wake up in the morning…. Will the world be even more surreal in 8 hours?
if you need a hug, get a sex worker to make it feel better.
ivokar doesn’t need to stoop to your methods
My father told me never to screw with Vikings. Please Don, don’t poke those dudes.
the scandanavian parade in my hood in brooklyn each year was the best. the highlight was a few hundred tall blonde gals strutting in bathing suits and viking helmets………..summer time blues go away………
Please wake me up from this nightmare or hallucination. My nerves are becoming frayed. I’m confused and seem to have more enemies by the day. My cousin even stopped talking to me. Mish, what’s happening to us?
pax dumbfuckistan has been waging nonstop warfare since 1898. nothing new. the modern amerikan men are truly ignorant. too may stupid movies and sportsball growing up in the past 70 years is my take on why this is so. for fucks sake girls and boys, in the 1800s and early 1900s amerikan politicians and ruling class of businessmen publicly called us an empire. the dumbing down of amerikans since the 1950s has been staggering. it’s all just greedy assholes who talk about how much money they have or don’t have. long live pax dumbfuckistan.
please give me more down votes………..to prove how fucking ignorant amerikans really are about their history. FFS it’s an empire. you idiots.
“the all mighty dollar” as we are fond of saying here. It’s been America’s strength until now as it’s become all encompassing. Now everyone wants their share of the pie whatever the cost. Greed built us and greed will destroy us, from the inside. Trump is the Commander in Grift. And the people he’s hurting the most are the ones who put him charge. He wonders why Norwegians don’t want to immigrate here. He really is so Fing stupid.
It’s too bad PeeWee Herman has passed on. He’s truly worthy of some Trump appointments – say going to some movies with Trump. Loser has to sit in the row at front!
It’s to make an alternative to the UN Mish. Kind of obvious.
Well, you get a point for effort, I guess.
Ah, a private UN where EVERY vote is bought with cash, beautiful cash!
Putin and Trump on a peace board?
Zero Credibility!! Likely negative credibility!
Like putting porn stars in charge of a virginity board.
Does no one have the guts to put this guy in the rubber room?
constant non-stop insanity and it’s escalating everyday.
Do republicans not see that they own this?
where exactly do they draw the line?
Does he have to go nuclear before they rein him in?
when good men ignore evil…..
Putin, yes. Trump, no. Putin tried to resolve Ukraine issues for many years before beginning the SMO, including last hour appeals to Biden / Blinken to pledge not to ever install missile systems in Ukraine, and try to resolve European “security architecture” issues. These are some of the same “root cause” issues which Russia continues to bring up. The problem is that EU leaders (aside from Orban) and the U.S. rebuff these serious diplomatic overtures, always playing diplomacy amongst themselves to work out proposals that meets few if any of Russia’s conditions which are table stakes for reaching an agreement. So the war continues…
Security architecture issues?
Mostly re: NATO expansion and more specifically certain weapon systems that have and are continuing be installed in Europe that put Moscow at some risk of being hit with a decapitating nuclear first strike. Ukraine neutrality of course must be guaranteed but Russia also wants to see a rollback of NATO military forces back to positions as they were prior to NATO expansion which began in the 90’s. As some analysts I watch have reported, this NATO rollback is a new formal demand made within the past week.
How is Putin peaceful when:
“Elections in Russia have not been free and fair under Putin’s rule. Political opponents are jailed and repressed, independent media is intimidated and suppressed, and electoral fraud is rampant.” – Wikipedia
Careful. You’re getting close to describing both Europe and the U.S. Wikipedia is hardly a neutral carrier of information.
What can I say? This is the country that Americans want.
I agree!
I expect during his speech on Wed.at Davos, he will simply state that he is now King of the World. Simplified version for Board of Peace.
This all clearly falls apart once Israel/U.S. attacks Iran again. Putting Gaza back together won’t be front and center when the priority becomes how to keep Israel from falling apart and launching a nuke on Tehran as a last ditch effort to stop its remote disassembly. That will be on top of U.S. military losses. The last ditch shot at coming up with a “victory” prior to the mid-terms may prove to at last be DJT’s swan song. Americans may finally have had enough (if not, help us all).
Does the $1 billion price tag include a pardon?
Trump’s antics just keep on getting more and more preposterous.
Not sure I want to see what comes next in this timeline.
The billionaires club divvying up the world. But it’ll be OK because Taco Donny will be the Chief Morality Officer. 😂
Watch Larry Ellison buy all the board seats.
shakedown of the world to the “permanent leader”
can it be any clearer
this is the “one world government” that the right wing fretted about over the years
lead by the worst people in the world which are the ones, who conveniently enough, stole a billion or two.
Ironically, this “board” sounds like the poster child of what was feared in certain fringe circles around 2012. In that timeline, libertarians feared a big unaccountable federal government, and the only thing scarier than that is a big unaccountable global government where membership is mandatory.
I don’t know how we ended up in this timeline, or more accurately, how this timeline started accelerating so rapidly, but now would be a great time for Congress to wake up and do their job.