5 times Nikki Haley has put her heels up the U.N.’s backside

Our new U.N. ambassador is kicking butt and taking names

“I wear heels, but it’s not a fashion statement,” U.N Ambassador Nikki Haley told the crowd at last week’s AIPAC meeting in D.C. “It’s because if I see something wrong, I’m gonna kick ’em every single time.”

And kick ’em she has.

Haley, former governor of South Carolina and, by some accounts, President Trump’s initial pick to be his Secretary of State, has embraced her new foreign policy role in a dramatic and public way. As she entered U.N. headquarters in New York City last January for the first time as U.S. ambassador, Haley told the press assembled there: “You’re going to see a change in the way we do business.”

She was just getting started. Here are five examples of Nikki Haley taking her heels and putting them directly up the U.N.’s backside.

#1: We’re taking names.

Haley began her tenure at the U.N. by telling the media exactly how it was going to be under the new Trump administration.

“Our goal with the admin is to show value at the UN and the way that we will do that is to show strength, show our voice, have the backs of our allies and make sure our allies have our back as well. For those who don’t have our backs, we’re taking names.”

She continued:

“Everything that is working, we are going to make it better. Everything that is not working, we are going to try and fix. And anything that seems to be obsolete and not necessary, we are going to do away with.”.

#2: There’s a new sheriff in town.

The United States has long enjoyed a strong friendship with Israel, but that friendship frayed during the Obama administration. Ambassador Haley is committed to repairing our nation’s broken relationships, and described to the AIPAC crowd how she sees her role at the U.N.:

“I’m not there to play. And what I wanted to make sure of was that the United States started leading again,” Amb. Haley explained.

“So the goal was have the backs of our allies. Never again do what we saw happen with Resolution 2334,” she said, in reference to the Obama administration giving the U.N. the authority to pass resolutions delegitimizing the Jewish state.

Amb. Haley promised to hold the totalitarian regimes at the U.N. accountable for their actions.

“We’re going to watch them like a hawk,” she said of the nuclear-aspiring Iranian regime.

“I wear heels. It’s not for a fashion statement — it’s because if I see something wrong, we’re going to kick them every single time,” she warned.

“The days of Israel-bashing our over. You’re not going to take our number one democratic friend in the Middle East and beat up on them.”

“For anyone that says you can’t get anything done at the U.N., they need to know there’s a new sheriff in town,” she added, to thunderous applause.

#3: Bad actors.

The Ambassador led a walkout of nearly 40 nations from a U.N. meeting to discuss an international nuclear weapons ban. She made it clear that such a ban would only lead to law-abiding countries ridding themselves of their nuclear arsenals, only to see the “bad actors” increasing their nuclear weapons stores.

“There is nothing I want more for my family than a world with no nuclear weapons. But we have to be realistic. Is there anyone that believes that North Korea would agree to a ban on nuclear weapons?”

“In this day and time we can’t honestly that say we can protect our people by allowing the bad actors to have them [nuclear weapons] and those of us that are good, trying to keep peace and safety, not to have them,” Haley argued.

She went on to say that bad actors, such as North Korea and Iran, would cheer on such a weapons ban. And it’s not likely that her boss would ever agree to one, as he declared in February that he wanted the U.S.’s nuclear arsenal to be “the top of the pack.”

#4: First of all, Assad…he’s a war criminal.

Goodness, this woman does not mince words. She took over the reins yesterday as President of the U.N. Security Council (a role that lasts one month and rotates among its 15 members) and immediately called out Council members Russia and Iran for their roles in protecting Syrian president Bashar al-Assad. And she didn’t have kind words for the Obama administration, either:

“The previous administration needs to take responsibility for that, as well,” she said. “First of all, Assad…he’s a war criminal. He’s used chemical weapons on his own people. He’s not allowing aid to come in. He is very much a deterrence to peace. But then you look at the fact that the Security Council has to acknowledge when the chemical weapons — we had proof that he used it three times on his own people. Why aren’t we dealing with that?”

#5: South Carolina stands with Israel.

You might think all this tough foreign policy talk from Haley started when she took the oath of office as U.N. ambassador. You’d be wrong. As governor of South Carolina, Haley stuck it to the U.N. in 2015 by signing into law a bill to stop any efforts in her state to boycott, divest and sanction Israel. She then signed a resolution that told the U.N. in no uncertain terms that the Boycott, Divest and Sanction movement begun by Palestine was based on a false premise and that South Carolina would have no part it in.