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Trump says the U.S. will cut ties with World Health Organization

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Trump says the U.S. will cut ties with World Health Organization

President Donald Trump announced Friday that the United States will cut ties with the World Health Organization.

“China has total control over the World Health Organization despite only paying $40 million per year compared to what the United States has been paying, which is approximately $450 million a year,” Trump said during a press conference from the White House Rose Garden.

This is not a good idea.
 
Not a word about the pandemic or Minneapolis..........or a question taken.
 
He needs a new enemy. In 2016 it was Mexico.

He can't go back to making Russia the enemy (recall, when it served the GOP's purpose in calling Obama "weak", Russia was "our greatest geopolitical foe"). He's been struggling to cover up his massive COVID-19 fails, that got tens and tens of thousands of people who needn't have died killed. His first round of trade war idiocy with China resulted in stupid failure. All he knows how to do is double-down (with other people's money).

So he needs yet again to take the spotlight off his failures and give the base something to be rabid about. He's been working the "blame China for all my failures" angle a while now, and you must remember the ugliness is the point with these people. So he'll escalate things with China, make a bad situation worse, and then make "aren't you mad at China (for what I caused)" part of the campaign.
 
Trump: Withdrawing from WHO because they were too accommodating to the Chinese in covering up the spread of the virus
Trump: Supporting republican politicians who cover up the spread of the virus
 
WHO is a total joke and what's wrong with putting Africans in charge. If you like giving money to Nigerian princes do it from your own account.
 
Good for President Trump. Unlike Biden who openly will make the USA a subordinate province of China, Trump is pro USA. The WHO lied, telling us that humans can' even contract covid-19 and did everything possible to insure it spread across the entire world. That he isn't seeking the arrest of the officials of WHO for crimes against humanity is a lucky break for them.
 
WHO is a total joke and what's wrong with putting Africans in charge. If you like giving money to Nigerian princes do it from your own account.

Open racism is kinda new. Thanks for letting me experience it.
 
WHO is a total joke and what's wrong with putting Africans in charge. If you like giving money to Nigerian princes do it from your own account.

I hadn't seen a racist angle but okay.
 
WHO is a total joke and what's wrong with putting Africans in charge. If you like giving money to Nigerian princes do it from your own account.

How goes your great quest, lemmiwinx? You certainly seem to have gotten comfortable in there.
 
I am going to be in the minority on this one, but I no longer trust that bureaucratic nightmare of dubious actions that WHO has become.
 
I hadn't seen a racist angle but okay.


When the UN gets involved usually white people get blamed. Sorry I thought somebody was blaming us for the covid19 outbreak in Detroit.
 

It's a horrible idea, one that can potentially be absolutely devastating in our battle with this virus. Trump is laying all the blame for his mishandling of this pandemic on the foot of China and the W.H.O.

In response to charges that the W.H.O. sat on information coming out of China about coronavirus and did not act quickly enough,both assertions are wrong on their face.

There is no conceivable reason the W.H.O. would sit on information as Trump accused them of. No interest of the W.H.O. would be served by doing so. The interest of the World Health Organization is to sound the alarms when they should be sounded. China has repeatedly bashed the U.S. and Trump's allegations as a cover-up for Trump’s own mishandling of the outbreak in the United States. And the right would say; "so, you believe the word of China over the word of the USA?" YES, I do because he's a liar, he can't accept any responsibility, and he ****ed up big time. The W.H.O has played a leading role in public health crises, from smallpox to Ebola, which could not be done without support from its members, notably the U.S.
 
This misguided severance will last approximately seven months.
 
This misguided severance will last approximately seven months.

It does appear to be one more nail in the coffin of his presidency. I agree.
 
Good for President Trump. Unlike Biden who openly will make the USA a subordinate province of China, Trump is pro USA. The WHO lied, telling us that humans can' even contract covid-19 and did everything possible to insure it spread across the entire world. That he isn't seeking the arrest of the officials of WHO for crimes against humanity is a lucky break for them.

The WHO is nothing more than a globalist front for communist China. They should be dismantled for parroting China's lies, causing untold number of deaths.
What China did is clear for all the world to see, and Trump is part of a growing chorus of countries who've had it with China's b.s.
 
After witnessing their colossal failures on covid-19 I dont see much benefit in continuing to finance those type of results. Its nothing personal and not about assigning blame or punishment on anyone. It just does not make sense to continue investing in something without getting a return benefit. We dont need the WHO, we have the CDC.

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It's a horrible idea, one that can potentially be absolutely devastating in our battle with this virus. Trump is laying all the blame for his mishandling of this pandemic on the foot of China and the W.H.O.

In response to charges that the W.H.O. sat on information coming out of China about coronavirus and did not act quickly enough,both assertions are wrong on their face.

There is no conceivable reason the W.H.O. would sit on information as Trump accused them of. No interest of the W.H.O. would be served by doing so. The interest of the World Health Organization is to sound the alarms when they should be sounded. China has repeatedly bashed the U.S. and Trump's allegations as a cover-up for Trump’s own mishandling of the outbreak in the United States. And the right would say; "so, you believe the word of China over the word of the USA?" YES, I do because he's a liar, he can't accept any responsibility, and he ****ed up big time. The W.H.O has played a leading role in public health crises, from smallpox to Ebola, which could not be done without support from its members, notably the U.S.

WHO just said that healthy people dont need to wear masks. Sounds like they agree with the evil right wingers so I suspect you will soon be coming out against the WHO.
 
The WHO is nothing more than a globalist front for communist China. They should be dismantled for parroting China's lies, causing untold number of deaths.
What China did is clear for all the world to see, and Trump is part of a growing chorus of countries who've had it with China's b.s.

That's a lie, the W.H.O. has nothing to benefit from being a 'front for China'. Trump is separating the United States from the rest of the world. We knew that was going to happen. We saw the signs from the very beginning at this U.N. speech. Every single country in the world heard him speak of his America first agenda and policies, arguing that the future belongs to “patriots” over “globalists.” For those of us who understood the meanings of those words, the real meaning, it was absolutely frightening. But you heard only the dog whistles and believed his lies that he was going to put 'Make America Great Again' which by the way, was Ronald Reagan's slogan that Trump plagiarized for his own slogan because he's a man devoid of any original though and doesn't have enough intelligence to come up with his own.

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WHO just said that healthy people dont need to wear masks. Sounds like they agree with the evil right wingers so I suspect you will soon be coming out against the WHO.

I listen to our CDC who advises that everyone should be wearing a mask.

The W.H.O. says masks should be saved for healthcare workers, caretakers, and sick people — everyone else should just stay home
 
That's a lie, the W.H.O. has nothing to benefit from being a 'front for China'. Trump is separating the United States from the rest of the world. We knew that was going to happen. We saw the signs from the very beginning at this U.N. speech. Every single country in the world heard him speak of his America first agenda and policies, arguing that the future belongs to “patriots” over “globalists.” For those of us who understood the meanings of those words, the real meaning, it was absolutely frightening. But you heard only the dog whistles and believed his lies that he was going to put 'Make America Great Again' which by the way, was Ronald Reagan's slogan that Trump plagiarized for his own slogan because he's a man devoid of any original though and doesn't have enough intelligence to come up with his own.

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The WHO has utterly and completely failed the world with regards to this pandemic. They are a political body with a globalist agenda.
I hope we take the money and directly fund healthcare for poor, all around the globe, without it being filtered through powerful people who wield entirely too much power.
 
The WHO has utterly and completely failed the world with regards to this pandemic. They are a political body with a globalist agenda.
I hope we take the money and directly fund healthcare for poor, all around the globe, without it being filtered through powerful people who wield entirely too much power.

Whether or not WHO is a pawn of China or just another useless international body, the truth is that the WHO runs in the most efficient way they can possibly do. We have to remember that there are over 200 nations all across the globe with different political systems and organizations. What the WHO can do is to coordinate with those existing political entities and from there, figure out the best solution from the given crisis. We have to remember that the WHO is, yet again, a specialized agency under the UN, so it only recognizes the sovereignty of nations that are under the UN charter. We also have to keep in mind that not all nations are transparent in their data as well, and all the WHO can do is to work based on the data that was given by those nations. They have no right to force other nations to be more transparent or bring about political changes. WHO monitors and coordinates with health organizations across the globe, and the health organizations help WHO by giving them the data and help they can offer.

That's the way WHO works and even though it sounds pretty unfair that WHO can be politically manipulated, it is the only body we have to rely upon when a global pandemic happens. How reliable they are differs from person to person and from whatever propaganda political parties put out. Of course it would be best if people could simply disseminate information and not be politically motivated. It does no good continuously blaming each other. Cooperation between all nations is the only way we can conquer a global pandemic.
 
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