UN Rights Chief Opens UN "Human Rights" Council with Not So Subtle Swipe at Trump Administration: "Reckless Political Profiteers"

In his remarks at the opening of the 34th session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on February 27, 2017, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Jordanian Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, said the following:

"The unprecedented marches of 21 January this year were not, I believe, about a particular individual or government – although many saw them as such....To those political actors who, as in the days of the League, threaten the multilateral system or intend to withdraw from parts of it, the sirens of historical experience ought to ring clear. We will not sit idly by. For we have much to lose, so much to protect. And our rights, the rights of others, the very future of our planet cannot, must not be thrown aside by these reckless political profiteers."