So Long, Globalist Agenda: Trump Can End Bad International Agreements With the Stroke of a Pen
Could President Trump, with the simple stroke of a pen, unilaterally remove the United States from freedom-crushing international agreements when he assumes the presidency on Jan. 20? He’s done it before, and yes, he can, and has said he will, do it again.
During Trump’s first term, his administration withdrew from international agreements and treaties that subjected America to concerning agendas and excessive financial burdens. Now that he is returning to the White House, the opportunity is ripe for him to disentangle the U.S. from overbearing arrangements that threaten our constitutional freedoms and infringe on our American interests.
Historical Precedent
Presidents on both sides of the aisle have advanced their agendas through “executive agreements,” which essentially consist of the president adding his signature to international agreements and treaties without congressional approval. Executive agreements give the president more control over foreign policy by helping him get around the factors that might otherwise complicate or constrain his decisions.
The mirror principle gives the president the power to terminate, without congressional participation, executive agreements that have been made unilaterally. Simply put, it requires that the same degree of executive and congressional participation legally necessary to exit an agreement should mirror what was required to enter that agreement in the first place.
When this issue came before the Supreme Court in Goldwater v. Carter, the court declined to review President Jimmy Carter’s unilateral termination of a bilateral treaty with Taiwan. Since the Constitution doesn’t specify under what circumstances and which branch of government has the power of treaty withdrawal, the justices left the issue undecided.
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In Trump’s first term, he dissolved nonbinding arrangements, exited international organizations and withdrew from three prominent executive agreements. He even revoked Article II treaties that are negotiated by the president and then submitted to the Senate for “advice and consent,” including the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, Treaty on Open Skies, Optional Protocol to the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations and the Treaty of Amity, Economic Relations and Consular Rights with Iran––with seemingly no consequences.
The Reality of International Treaties
The truth is, most international treaties prove to be ineffective and even harmful.
In a landmark study titled “International Treaties Have Mostly Failed to Produce Their Intended Effects,” York University professor Mathieu J.P. Poirier noted, “Not only did many treaties have no measurable impact, but some treaties may have even led to unintended harmful impacts.”
Poirier, co-director of York University’s Global Strategy Lab, went on to explain that the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child was associated with harmful effects, such as “worsened human rights practices, no improvements in health outcomes and, paradoxically, increases in child labour.”
With the immense concerns around the agenda of global elites and international government, financial burdens and effectiveness of international agreements, it is imperative that Congress hold all presidents accountable to the proper process for entering foreign treaties according to Article II, Section 2 of the U.S. Constitution to prevent presidents from arbitrarily and unilaterally signing the country on to any binding foreign agreement. Furthermore, when considering the abuse of power of past administrations and the exposed agenda of global government, legislation should be passed to require two-thirds Senate approval to amend agreements and treaties like the International Health Regulations to protect U.S. sovereignty.
Rejecting a Globalist Agenda
The strings attached to executive agreements and international treaties often tether the United States to a globalist agenda that opens the door to compromising national sovereignty and weakening guaranteed freedoms under the U.S. Constitution. Look no further than the emergence of totalitarian agendas of global governance coming out of the United Nations and the World Health Organization, which is a U.N. agency.
In these international agencies, global leaders and their strategic partners in the public and private sectors are in the process of co-opting the largest global power grab of a lifetime through the Pact of the Future, International Health Regulations and the Pandemic Treaty (should it pass in some form).
Each of these agreements acts as a Trojan horse for the globalist agenda and tyrannical officials such as the leadership of the World Health Organization to have jurisdiction over our health care and much more. Think COVID pandemic overreach and vaccine mandates, but on a much broader scale. And it doesn’t stop there. A new form of gulag is threatening Americans and freedom worldwide—a digital gulag imposed by a global surveillance state with mandatory digital identification and many more implications.
Even now, international government entities are scrambling to advance their globalist agenda before Inauguration Day or by the World Health Assembly in May of 2025.
It is of utmost importance that the United States defund and exit these globalist institutions and renege on international agreements and treaties that undermine our constitutional republic, American liberty, national sovereignty and human dignity. Why remain beholden to foreign agreements that only limit our freedom, prosperity and security? This is why President-elect Trump should make it a priority on Day One to remove the U.S. from such binding agreements the same way we were signed on to them—with the stroke of a pen.
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Summer Ingram is vice president of strategic affairs at Liberty Counsel and Liberty Counsel Action.
