A senior United Nations leader with a long history of attacking President Donald Trump is now lobbying for influence in the administration’s new Trump Gaza peace plan, raising serious questions about the integrity of U.S. policy implementation in the region. Tom Fletcher, the U.N.’s undersecretary general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief coordinator in Gaza, has posted dozens of anti-Trump messages over the years, calling the president a “dictator” and claiming the world has “a Trump problem.”
Fletcher is now “waging a charm offensive on Trump officials trying to reboot himself from pro-Hamas propagandist to reliable U.S. partner for humanitarian aid in Gaza,” a White House source told the Washington Free Beacon. Despite defending the U.N. Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA)—whose employees participated in Hamas’s October 7 attack—Fletcher has argued the agency is “the only organization capable of handling aid in Gaza.”
Fletcher has repeatedly smeared the United States and Israel, accusing Israel of “forced starvation” in Gaza and falsely claiming that “14,000 Gazan babies would die in 48 hours” without more aid.
Former Trump national security official Richard Goldberg warned that Fletcher’s involvement could undermine U.S. goals. “This self-aggrandizing, raging anti-Trump leftist U.N. leader will be the downfall of the Trump plan for Gaza if he’s allowed inside the decision-making tent,” Goldberg said.
