Undermines Obama by demanding U.S. veto UN resolution on Israeli settlements

As the UN Security Council prepared to vote on a resolution condemning Israeli settlement construction in occupied Palestinian territory, Trump publicly called on President Obama to veto the measure, tweeting 'The resolution being considered at the United Nations Security Council regarding Israel should be vetoed' and warning it would put 'Israel in a very poor negotiating position.' Trump's transition team also worked with Israel to pressure Egypt (which had sponsored the resolution) to withdraw it. This marked an extraordinary breach of protocol: a president-elect actively undermining the sitting president's foreign policy and conducting shadow diplomacy in violation of the Logan Act principle that prohibits private citizens from interfering in U.S. foreign relations.

"The resolution being considered at the United Nations Security Council regarding Israel should be vetoed." — Twitter/Facebook statement on December 22