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NY Post Editorial September 24, 2025

Nepo baby* Violet Affleck proves Trump right about the United Nations’ uselessness

UN officials couldn’t have done more to prove President Donald Trump right about the world body’s deep worthlessness when they put nepo baby Violet Affleck on the global stage to blather about the need to filter air.

That’s right: At the UN’s Healthy Indoor Air session Tuesday, Violet Affleck — just 19 and with no qualification beyond being the daughter of actors Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner — railed about the dangers of airborne viruses and the importance of mask mandates amid the “ongoing pandemic.”

“Adults,” she huffed (through a KN95 mask), are “ignoring, downplaying and concealing both the prevalence of airborne transmission and the threat of Long COVID.”

It’s pure lunacy. 

The pandemic ended years ago. Figures from New York’s Health Department show the infection rate in the city is 1 in 100,000 and often less. COVID no longer ranks as a major cause of death in the US.

Even if COVID was still a threat, the best science determined that masks aren’t effective at stopping the coronavirus’ spread: The definitive Cochrane review found they made “little to no difference” in curbing its contagiousness.

Heck, even the left’s COVID idol, Anthony Fauci, admitted that “from a broad public-health standpoint,” masks work only “at the margins”; he and other US public-health authorities dishonestly exaggerated their effectiveness all along.

Hilariously, the UN had promised “high-level speakers” at the “healthy air” event, implying those with deep expertise and published, peer-reviewed research.

Not a woman not yet 20, with an obvious germ obsession, after having suffered a post-viral condition in 2019 — pre-pandemic!

What a joke. 

On the same day. Trump was rightly asking if United Nations does anything of value.

And, no, hosting dog-and-pony shows symbolically rewarding Hamas’ terrorism by recognizing a Palestinian state doesn’t pass the bar. 

The institution has “such tremendous potential,” insisted Trump, yet not only is it “not solving” problems, it’s “actually creating new” ones.

Such as inflicting young Miss Affleck’s nonsense on a global audience. 

* “A nepo baby is an informal, often derogatory, term for a person, particularly in the entertainment industry, whose career and success are believed to be significantly aided by family connections and privilege rather than solely by talent or hard work. The term is a portmanteau of "nepotism" and "baby," referring to the practice of using family connections to gain preferential treatment or opportunities. While the term can be used to describe anyone who benefits from nepotism, it gained significant popularity through social media discussions about Hollywood and celebrity culture.”  

This poor little hysteric is a freshman at Yale — it appears that nepo babies are rewarded with more than just film roles.