Don’t expect Nikki Haley to leave the United Nations quietly.

The former Lexington resident, SC governor and now UN ambassador took other countries to task for again failing to support human rights in Cuba.

In last week’s 189-2 vote against the trade embargo, Cuba apologists blamed the embargoes for many of the communist island’s problems.

Israel alone sided with the United States.

Ambassador Haley noted who bears the real costs of this high-minded preening.

“It’s one more time that countries feel they can poke the United States in the eye, but you’re not hurting the United States,” she said.

“You’re literally hurting the Cuban people by telling the regime that their treatment of their people is acceptable.”

Haley proposed amendments about the Cuban regime’s denial of fundamental freedoms of assembly and expression, harassment and intimidation of government opponents and the jailing of citizens who dare complain about human-rights violations.

All 8 amendments failed by overwhelming margins.

Only Israel and Ukraine voted with the US.

Earlier last week, it was reported that President Trump will nominate a former Fox News journalist to replace Haley when she steps down next month.

Heather Nauert is to become US ambassador to the United Nations, a White House official said.

Nauert is the State Department’s chief communications official.

Nauert will have big shoes to fill. Haley has been a forceful and outspoken critic of UN policies and a staunch defender of Israel.

She has not yet announced what she will do when she leaves the UN.

Republican insiders consider Haley a future presidential candidate.