As a sign of friendship, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley invited those members of the United Nations that didn’t vote against the United States on Thursday to a special reception at the start of the new year. On Friday, MSNBC found it comical that the U.S. would thank those who respected its sovereignty and right to choose where to place its embassy and ridiculed the Ambassador and the Trump administration.

“’Exercise our right as a sovereign nation,’ used by Nikki Haley and used against, I guess, the United States. What do you make of all this,” host Chris Jansing asked former Obama State Department Under Secretary turned MSNBC Analyst Richard Stengel.

The Obama administration flack chided Ambassador Haley for attending what he called “the Tony Soprano School of Diplomacy.” “You extort people to get them to go along with your point of view,” he mocked.

Both Jansing and Stengel found the list of countries that supported the U.S. hysterical as they put the graphic on the screen. “That party she’s having, if you look at the nations that actually voted with us, I don’t know if folks have looked at that… Micronesia, Marshall Islands, most people have never heard of them. You can have the party in this room,” he joked as he motioned to their tiny set.

Stengel did admit that the U.N. does target Israel far more than other countries, but didn’t seem to have a problem with their systemic anti-Semitism. “I mean, the U.N. votes non-binding resolutions against Israel like three times a week, that happens all the time,” he quipped.

He also claimed that the U.S. was isolating itself within the elitist body and it could hurt us during critical votes against North Korea:

But what is also bad strategy is next week when Ambassador Haley has to go to the U.N. for support from North Korea, what are they going to do? “Hey, you took our name last week, why should I vote against North Korea?” When she goes to the U.N. in two weeks about, you know, we want to change policy about Iran.

“And by the way, this idea that we give the most money to the U.N., which, of course, we do, that will never stop that will never change that doesn’t change people's behavior,” Stengel sneered. And he wrote off the Trump administration’s threat of withholding foreign aid and some of the over $3 billion the U.S. pays in U.N. funding: “And this, kind of, mafia-esque way of saying we might withhold that money as a threat, people realize is an empty threat.”

Relevant portions of the transcript below: