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Trump: Board of Peace Will Make UN ‘Run Properly

President Donald Trump on Thursday said his Board of Peace not only will work with the United Nations on Gaza’s future, the board will make sure the international organization “runs properly.”

Speaking at the inaugural Board of Peace gathering at the Donald J. Trump U.S. Institute of Peace, Trump argued the U.N. has “tremendous potential” but has “not lived up to that potential.” 

He touted the new board as an action-oriented alternative to decades of what he portrayed as empty global talk.

“We’re going to be working with the United Nations very closely,” Trump said in opening remarks shown live on Newsmax, adding that the Board of Peace will “almost be looking over the United Nations and making sure it runs properly,” while the U.S. helps the U.N. “moneywise” and works to strengthen its facilities and operations.

Trump framed the board as a results-driven forum aimed at securing a durable postwar plan for Gaza after a ceasefire took hold last fall.

The board’s first meeting took place with major unresolved issues still looming, including Hamas disarmament, Israeli troop withdrawals, humanitarian aid distribution, and the size and structure of a reconstruction fund expected to require tens of billions of dollars.

Trump, however, portrayed momentum as building.

He said the war in Gaza “is over” and pointed to a growing list of member nations pledging funds, personnel, and training for an international stabilization effort, while warning Hamas that any refusal to disarm would be “harshly met.”

The president also used the gathering to praise his envoys and inner circle for what he called major diplomatic breakthroughs.

“I want to thank Steve and Jared for an amazing job,” he said, referring to special envoy Steve Witkoff and his son-in-law Jared Kushner, whom Trump credited with helping deliver the Abraham Accords in his first term.

Trump then appeared to elevate Kushner’s role even further, saying Kushner “will also now be an envoy for peace.”

But that claim quickly earned clarification. I24 News correspondent Mordechai Wagenheim posted on X that a State Department official told him Kushner “will not become ‘an envoy for peace’ in an official sense,” despite Trump’s remarks.

The broader initiative has drawn international attention and skepticism partly because it touches the U.N.’s traditional role as the world’s primary diplomatic platform.

Some U.S. allies have declined to join, while others have participated only as observers, raising questions about legitimacy and long-term structure.

Still, Trump’s message Thursday was that America is leading, demanding accountability, and pushing institutions like the U.N. to deliver measurable results — with the president insisting that peace, not endless bureaucracy, should be the international system’s bottom line.

Washington state spent MILLIONS on sex change surgeries for convicted criminals: report

The state of Washington has paid millions of taxpayer dollars to a surgeon who performed “gender-affirming” procedures on convicted criminals in prison. 

According to a report by The Daily Wire, Stiller Aesthetics, a cosmetic surgery practice led by Dr. Geoffrey Stiller, received more than $4.3 million from the Washington State Health Care Authority beginning in July 2019. The outlet noted that the database does not specify what each payment covered, but public records it reviewed indicated that some of the practice’s patients included individuals incarcerated in the Washington Department of Corrections.

Stiller Aesthetics promotes multiple “transgender” surgical offerings on its website, including facial feminization, a “non-binary” double mastectomy, and “bottom surgery.” The site also claims Dr. Stiller has performed more than 1,000 vaginoplasties and averages several procedures per week, describing him as highly sought after for male-to-female genital surgery.

The Daily Wire obtained public records linked to Washington’s corrections system showing that inmates deemed eligible for sex-change-related care could seek temporary coverage through Apple Health, the state’s Medicaid program, which provides coverage for certain transgender surgeries.

President Donald Trump issued a January 2025 executive order barring federal funds from being used for “any medical procedure, treatment, or drug” intended to change an inmate’s appearance to that of the opposite sex. However, Washington state joined a multi-state lawsuit in February 2025 challenging that order and obtained a preliminary injunction that allowed inmates in federal facilities to continue receiving such surgeries. The Daily Wire reported that payments to Dr. Stiller continued after Trump’s election, and that the state spending database showed he received more than $800,000 in 2025 alone.

Dr. Stiller drew national attention in 2017 after being allowed to perform vaginoplasties at a small-town hospital in Idaho amid community objections. It referenced a November 2017 Washington Post profile that portrayed him sympathetically and quoted him describing his work as “the right thing to do.” The article also stated that after “multiple controversies” in Idaho, Dr. Stiller later opened a new practice in Spokane, Washington, which his website described as a safer location to care for patients.