The United Nations has frequently stood at odds with America’s best interests, but with an upcoming election to replace that organization’s leader, there’s a chance an ally of President Donald Trump could be sitting at the helm. Breitbart recently reported on remarks from former President of Senegal Macky Sall, who delivered an eloquent endorsement of the Trump foreign policy agenda: “My first message to President Trump is first to congratulate him for his action on peace,” Sall said in a phone interview ahead of a recent trip to Washington. “He’s a peace builder, even if sometimes we have some problems today with Iran, but what he did is huge on one year of peace in the world, around the world, and he has to continue this process to be and to stay a peace builder. The second is United States are the first power in the world to be with the UN, they need to be with the UN, but the UN also should be reformed to be efficient and with other member states together we can build a better UN, or to MUNGA — we can Make the UN Great Again.” Sall is one of several candidates to succeed António Guterres as Secretary General of the United Nations. The election will happen in the fall at the UN General Assembly (UNGA) in September and is a complicated process by which candidates will need to survive any vetoes from U.N. Security Council members and then gain enough support from leaders around the world to win. Whoever wins will take over in January and serve a five-year term. Sall, whose nation Senegal is very close with France, has support from the French and makes clear he has close relations from his time as president with all of the major world leaders especially the permanent Security Council members, which are the called the P5 of the United States, Russia, China, France, and the United Kingdom. The fact that Sall is openly embracing the idea of “MUNGA,” or “Make the UN Great Again,” is a significant development that closely mirrors what Trump and his team are trying to do at the behemoth world diplomacy forum that they argue has lost its way. Late last year, Trump’s U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz sat for a lengthy exclusive interview with Breitbart News on the floor of the UNGA to detail the vision for MUNGA — Making the UN Great Again — in which he explained a lot of this has to do with spending cuts and eliminating woke or redundant mandates. Sall, in his interview with Breitbart News, openly embraced that vision. Sall, who was president of Senegal for 12 years and previously served in key positions throughout his country’s government and also served as President of the African Union and of ECOWAS, argues that the United States’s warnings must be heeded by the United Nations if the UN is to survive. Later in the same report: Sall also said he hopes Trump continues to have the United States at the forefront of the UN. “President Trump, I think he can with our capacity, with the capacity of his colleagues, together—because we need to have this worldwide platform, universal platform, and we should be angry and he has to be here of course,” Sall said. “We have to take his concern because U.S. is the first country. So we have to listen to what the U.S. is telling, and we can work with open books and with clarity. I have no problem on that, and will work also with other countries to see how the UN can have also a predictable budget that has also a process to a country, and with accountability we can know exactly the money we spend and where it goes. Did we have the impact with the population in the world against hunger, against disease, against the war, and how to build the peace and development? I think President Trump should stay this leader. It is the way he will mark also not only United States but also the entire world.” Sall’s comments attracted some social media discussion: Could be a move in the right direction. — Patricia (@1109Patricia) June 22, 2026 Macky Sall backing Trump on reforming the UN and making it great again is interesting. The UN has been wasting money funding terrorists and overlapping mandates for too long. Good to see someone pushing for accountability and cuts. Hope it happens and the US stays a leader there.… — sandym (@Sandy1Texas) June 22, 2026 My guess is they are afraid that Trump will pull out and kick them out. That being said … they are only making reforms to appease Trump, while they hide their time until another Democrat gets the presidency so they can fleece us more! — C-Reason (@CreasonJana) June 22, 2026 Meanwhile, the broader field of candidates appear to be making clear their disappointment in Guterres’ tenure, as Devex reported: The race to lead the world body over the next five or 10 years has developed into something of a referendum on Guterres’ decade-long tenure, and not always in a good way, as the candidates draw attention, without mentioning his name, to the U.N. leader’s reluctance to use his office more proactively to end conflicts. Those looking to succeed Guterres have underscored the need to take diplomatic risks for peace, even when there is little prospect of success, rather than sitting on the sidelines while others pursue international mediation efforts from Gaza to Iran and  Ukraine. The U.N., they contend, must learn to fail at peace before it can succeed.  “We have become too risk averse,” former Costa Rican Vice President Rebeca Grynspan said in a debate hosted in Geneva by GWL Voices, an organization that advocates for appointing the U.N.’s first female secretary-general, and the U.N. Foundation, a U.N. advocacy group. “Our only failure is not to try, and in many cases, we have stopped trying.”  “We have to navigate many no’s to get a yes,” she said.  “When conflicts arise, I will be there, offering mediation, insisting on respect for international law,” Michelle Bachelet, former two-time president of Chile, said at the same event.  Rafael Grossi, the peripatetic director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, has built his campaign around his willingness to fly into harm’s way to resolve nuclear standoffs from Iran to Ukraine. He said he doesn’t wait for permission to engage in high-stakes, high-risk diplomatic missions. “Supporters and critics of the U.N. say, ‘well, the U.N. doesn’t count,’” Grossi said in a briefing at the Council on Foreign Relations. “Where is the U.N. in the war between Ukraine and the Russian Federation? Where is the U.N.in current negotiation in Pakistan, between Iran and the United States …Where was the U.N.in the war in the Great Lakes region between Rwanda and Congo? Where was the U.N.? It was not there. It was not there.” A spokesperson for the secretary-general declined to comment on the candidates’ remarks, saying his office would not weigh on the selection process for a new secretary-general. The need to focus on peacemaking echoes the calls from key governments, particularly the United States, that the U.N. needs to get “back to basics,” meaning back in the peacemaking game.   In his address to the U.N. General Assembly last September, President Donald Trump excoriated the world body for what he claimed was a failure to offer support for his own peacemaking efforts. ”The United Nations wasn’t there for us,” he complained. Here’s the full video of Trump’s UN speech: What are your thoughts? TAP HERE TO ADD YOUR VOTE This is a Guest Post from our friends over at WLTReport. 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