A Really Big Shoe

Once upon a time, there was a guy named Nikita. He was in charge of a really big country. He came to visit us in our really big country. While he was here, he took the opportunity to stop by the place where a bunch of other world leaders hang out and talk about whatever it is that world leaders talk about. Instead of sitting quietly and listening attentively, Nikita decided to disrupt things while others were trying to speak. He banged his fist on his table. He even took off his shoe and banged it on his table. Nikita was not working and playing nice with the other world leaders.
Did he lose petals off his courtesy daisy? Well, no. Eventually a guy named Leonid with great big eyebrows replaced him, but he wasn't kicked out of this or any other country for his behavior. As it turns out, this kind behavior is encouraged at the United Nations. 
That is the only thing I can figure out after watching this guy named Donny John stand up in that same place and rail on about whatever seemed to be stuck in his voluminous craw. Specifically, there was this: "The United States has great strength and patience, but if it is forced to defend itself and its allies, we will have no choice but to totally destroy North Korea. 'Rocket Man' is on a suicide mission for himself and for his regime." Anyone who has been hanging around poolside and reading the "President's" Twitter feed probably wasn't shocked at the saber-rattling rhetoric, but this was the United Nations. Couldn't he at least have taken off a shoe or something? 
He didn't keep all his venom for North Korea. He had harsh words for Venezuela as well. “The problem in Venezuela is not that socialism has been poorly implemented but that socialism has been faithfully implemented. I ask every country represented here today to be prepared to do more to address this very real crisis. We call for the full restoration of democracy and political freedoms in Venezuela.” 
We? The other delegates from nations across the globe looked at each other in wonder. We who? Not that the powers that be in North Korea and Venezuela are innocent victims of our pompous Cheeto of a leader. There are human rights violations and deplorable conditions that deserve attention by a body like the United Nations. Specifically: "to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, which twice in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to mankind, and to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person, in the equal rights of men and women and of nations large and small, and to establish conditions under which justice and respect for the obligations arising from treaties and other sources of international law can be maintained, and to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom."
And see if we can't keep our shoes on while we do it. 

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