...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships...
confab of world leaders in September usually starts with a push on some lofty goal, such as tackling poverty or climate change.
That is not on the cards for the first UN General Assembly (UNGA) for United States President Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
Instead, the focus on Monday will be the dour topic of UN reform - part of Washington's drive to cut some flab off the world body and reduce the multi-billion dollar price tag it pays each year to keep the blue flag flying in midtown Manhattan.
Trump proposes cuts in UN funding
Trump has previously written off the UN as a "club" for "people to have a good time", prompting fears that tightening purse strings would leave needy people in South Sudan, Congo, and other hotspots without aid and blue-helmet backup.
Though UN reform is the centrepiece, delegates will inevitably get side-tracked by more urgent headaches: the ethnic cleansing of Rohingya in Myanmar,
North Korean nuclear arms, and the rift between Qatar...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates...
and its Arab neighbours.
All the while, paparazzi will hunt Trump and his counterparts from La Belle France, Emmanuel Macron, and
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him...
Every eye-roll will be captured, not least when Paleostinian President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial...
and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu share the room.
A lot hangs on how Trump behaves, said Courtney Smith, a New Jersey-based UN specialist at Seton Hall University.
The billionaire's "unpredictable" and "inconsistent" diplomacy has left foreign statesmen wondering whether "America First" puts them last.
"Will it be a Trump who wants to engage the UN and talk about issues that can be solved together, or a Trump who's confrontational and critical?" Smith told Al Jazeera.