Trump calls for all ICC members to resign immediately

US President Donald Trump used his address to the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Tuesday to call on all member states of the International Criminal Court to resign from the institution immediately. He described the ICC as an "out of control institution" and "an evil group of people," and labeled it a "rogue institution" with no jurisdiction over the United States. Trump said Washington would "never allow US service members or anyone else to be investigated or given show-trials by an anti-American tribunal." The remarks follow a series of US sanctions imposed on ICC officials after the court issued an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The call represents an escalation of the Trump administration's confrontation with the Hague-based court, which the US has never joined as a state party. The speech was delivered at UN headquarters and was carried by multiple international outlets.

Global Impact

Politically, the call deepens the rift between Washington and the ICC's member states, most of which are US allies in Europe and beyond, and could accelerate debates in those capitals about the court's viability. Geopolitically, it strengthens the hand of governments already hostile to international tribunals and weakens the enforcement of arrest warrants, including against Israeli and Russian officials.