New Zealand declines invite to join Board of Peace

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/new-zealand-declines-invite-join-board-peace-2026-01-29/

50 Comments

  1. Nobody is joining the Board of Piss except corrupt second and third world countries that want to buy Trump. Russia and China would never join something with Trump as Chairman and neither would other world powers in Europe.

  2. thesweeterpeter on

    The list of countries that have agreed is shorter than the list who have declined.

    They’ve got Hungary and most of the ‘Stans, Egypt, the oil rich middle eastern monarchies – but then this board really runs out of steam. Russia seems halfway in on the idea.

    I mean if North Korea signs up, it could be a good party. But I don’t think they can afford the cover charge right now.

  3. Earthpig_Johnson on

    Luthor is gonna be pissed when he finds out they don’t wanna join the Legion of Doom.

  4. The biggest let down here, especially for NZers, is the time it took to decline it, should have been an instant ‘thanks but No thanks’

  5. Please, World:

    Tell Trump to go fuck himself with this organization. You’d be stupid to join.

  6. Hammock_Swinging on

    LOL even though FM Winston Peters is generally a Trump apologist even he had to turn this s*** show down. That’s saying something considering no NZ government, Labour included, would have joined this clearly and obviously corrupt “board.”

  7. Honestly, I’m quite interested in seeing how this plays out.

    It’s obvious that the “Board of Piss” is just a scam run by Trump, and I don’t see him holding much interest for it after he has been snubbed by all the serious countries (and after he has already received his bribe from the rest), so it will be fun to see if it even takes off and for how long will he keep it “functioning”.

  8. This actually took longer than you’d expect for our PM to rule out, and he added “in its current state”. We have an election this year so hopefully the muppet is voted out for some common sense

  9. onlyonequickquestion on

    Lots of peaceful countries that don’t want to join this board of peace. Interesting 

  10. So we got us, North Korea, Turkmenistan, Saudi Arabia, the Borg, the Nazis from Iron Sky, and…

    “Are we the baddies?”

  11. New Zealand’s official response was “Shit, the cunt is looking this way, everyone hide.”

  12. Responsible_Skill957 on

    He’s the biggest grifter in the world. You know he’ll just pocket the money they pay if they join. And they know it.

  13. Glittering-Age-9549 on

    Everybody knows that seat is worthless. They pay
    1 billion to Kiss Trump’s ass…

  14. Appropriate-Bank-883 on

    Yeah, wtf would we join? If it was me getting the invite I would have just left on read

  15. Look at all the Republicans weighing in on this decision by New Zealand. All none of you. Trump is an international embarrassment, and you are all going to pay the bill for it.

  16. Afraid-Taro1911 on

    None of this makes sense…. Trump is an idiot, I really can’t understand why people get behind his imperialism and claim to be patriotic Americans. Apparently the breakdown of checks and balances And making a mockery of our fake democracy functioning Republic makes you more American…..f..k we’re stupid

  17. Beautiful_Lie7367 on

    I say if a country has an extra billion hanging around to buy a seat at that table, they don’t need any aid from the US.

  18. ryhaltswhiskey on

    What the hell is this thing anyway? Is it just some sort of money laundering operation? Is it a way for countries to pay Trump off for favors? I still don’t understand where this money goes.

  19. New Zealand is a beautiful place with some of the nicest people you could hope to meet. Everyone I met there was also educated and intellectually capable of using that knowledge. I don’t doubt that this nonsense group of trump ass kissers is not something that they want to be a part of. It good to see that some of the good qualities that America used to possess are still a part of the world and valued by some.

  20. Justnotstressed on

    It was never about peace. It was about a new power structure that Trump could be at the top of. It’s a Ponzi scheme on steroids.

    And now none of Europe power are joining apart from the nobodies and lunatics, no other significant global player has joined, and Trump now fronts up a board that has no real global influence apart from the part of the world he despises most, the Middle East, and where he cannot bully the Qatari’s or the Saudi’s because they’re richer than he is.

    It’s a monumental failure.

  21. Kind of awkward that Australia has not yet formally declined, given it has a centre left government and NZ has a centre right one.

    Though I’m pretty sure Australia is trying the standard corporate tactic of ignoring a request and hoping that it goes away.

  22. BuryTheFacists on

    The NZ govt do not respond willingly. They would have happily said nothing but other political parties repeatedly applied pressure. Even then the response was soft as fuck

  23. Australia still “considering the offer” ie. desperately hoping that Trump forgets about it and moves on to his next fantasy.