‘We all have a Trump problem’: UN official angling for role in post-war Gaza has history of bashing Trump

Fletcher repeatedly accused Israel of committing war crimes during its two-year war in Gaza.

By Adam Kredo, The Washington Free Beacon

A senior U.N. official jockeying for a prominent role in implementing President Donald Trump’s Gaza peace plan has a history of bashing Trump on his personal X account.

Tom Fletcher, the United Nations’ undersecretary general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief coordinator in Gaza, has advocated for foreign leaders to boycott the president and warned the world has “a Trump problem,” among many other insults in more than two dozen social media posts reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon.

Fletcher has been working overtime in recent weeks to present himself to the Trump administration as a key figure in the humanitarian aid portion of Trump’s 20-point plan.

The U.S.- and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation—which delivered aid from this spring until the recent ceasefire—says it is ready to resume its role, but Fletcher is angling to restore the Hamas-tied U.N. Relief and Works Agency’s (UNRWA) image and ensure it plays a critical role in post-war Gaza.

The British-born U.N. official has argued to the Trump administration that UNRWA is the only organization capable of handling aid in Gaza, even though dozens of its employees participated in Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, attack and remain affiliated with the terror group, White House insiders told the Free Beacon.

“Fletcher is 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,” said one source, speaking on background about the active discussions. “The British accent covers up a pernicious agenda.”

Fletcher repeatedly accused Israel of committing war crimes during its two-year war in Gaza, claiming in multiple interviews the Jewish state subjected Gazan civilians to “forced starvation,” an allegation Hamas and its media allies also promoted.

Earlier this year, Fletcher parroted false claims that more than 14,000 Gazan babies would die in 48 hours if Israel did not boost aid deliveries in Gaza, comments he later walked back.

As recently as August, though, Fletcher was still pushing inaccurate claims that Israel intentionally created a famine in Gaza.

Though Fletcher is now positioning himself as a Trump ally and confidant who can help enforce the White House’s 20-point peace plan in Gaza, further social media posts demonstrate he spent years opposing the president’s “extremist” agenda.

In January 2024, for instance, Fletcher wrote that a Trump victory in that year’s presidential election would mean victories for Russian president Vladimir Putin and Chinese president Xi Jinping.

In his first term, Trump “replaced shining city on hill with tacky gold tower,” Fletcher continued.

Less than a month earlier, Fletcher approvingly shared an op-ed by U.N. special envoy for global education and former U.K. prime minister Gordon Brown in which Brown argued “American democracy” would be “on the ballot in 2024.”

Fletcher has shared his anti-Trump views on social media for years.

At the tail end of Trump’s first term, after the House of Representatives voted to impeach him, Fletcher offered a draft of the statement he thought then-U.K. prime minister Boris Johnson should have issued.

The U.N. official said after the 2020 presidential election that Trump’s base supports him because of his “extremism, bullying, [and] denial of reason.”

During Trump’s first term, Fletcher referred to the president and Putin together as “Trumputin” and accused Trump of having “vandalized our shared values.”

Fletcher wrote a 2017 op-ed for Prospect magazine in which he implored then-new U.N. secretary general António Guterres to “stand up to Trump,” bemoaning the “vandalism” of his presidency in a subsequent tweet.

Even before Trump’s election in 2016, Fletcher wrote a blog post in which he described the then-GOP nominee as a “dictator.”

Richard Goldberg, who served as a senior national security official in both Trump White Houses and now directs the Foundation for Defense of Democracies’ international organizations program, told the Free Beacon that, if allowed to participate, Fletcher will derail the U.S. peace plan.

“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. “Mark my words.”