Breaking: Donald Trump Announces US Will Withdraw from WHO

Would any other President have taken such decisive action and removed the US from the World Health Organization (WHO)?

It’s certainly hard to imagine.

At this point, it’s becoming clearer that the WHO, with an ex-communist director, did little to stop the pandemic early on and perhaps even made it worse.

The organization condemned President Trump’s swift decision to close the US to Chinese travelers.

They twiddled their thumbs, while thousands died, and refused to term COVID a “pandemic.”

All because the WHO director, who was appointed with China’s backing, wanted to protect the Chinese government from scrutiny.

CNN reports the latest details on Trump’s decision to remove the US from the WHO:

President Donald Trump announced on Friday that the United States will terminate its relationship with the World Health Organization, a move he has threatened throughout the coronavirus pandemic.

“Because they have failed to make the requested and greatly needed reforms, we will be today terminating our relationship with the World Health Organization and redirecting those funds to other worldwide and deserving, urgent global public health needs,” Trump said.

The President said that the “world needs answers from China on the virus. We must have transparency.”

At the same event on Friday, Trump launched a blistering attack on China, including a slew of retaliatory measures that will plunge US-China relations deeper into crisis.

Earlier in his remarks, Trump said that China had not properly reported information it had about the coronavirus to the World Health Organization and said China had pressured the WHO to “mislead the world.”

“Chinese officials ignored their reporting obligations to the World Health Organization and pressured the World Health Organization to mislead the world when the virus was first discovered by Chinese authorities,” Trump said. “Countless lives have been taken and profound economic hardship has been inflicted all around the globe.”

The President had previously announced a temporary halt of funding to the WHO and sent a letter to the agency earlier in May saying that the US would permanently pull funding if the WHO did not “commit to major substantive improvements in the next 30 days.”

In that letter, Trump included a false description of when information about the virus was published in The Lancet, prompting the prestigious medical journal to publicly dispute his claims.

Trump’s decision to permanently terminate the US relationship with the WHO follows a years-long pattern of skepticism of world organizations, with the President claiming in nearly every circumstance that the US was being taken advantage of.

The President has questioned US funding to the United Nations and the Northern Atlantic Treaty Organization, withdrawn from the Paris climate accords and repeatedly criticized the World Trade Organization.

He’s also blamed China for taking advantage of the US, pointing the finger at the nation for taking US jobs and, now, failing to stop the spread of coronavirus into the US.

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Meanwhile, Trump has mostly given himself and his administration rave reviews for its handling of the pandemic, despite Covid-19 testing fumbles and a national stockpile short on supplies when they were needed most.

The WHO has been criticized for relying on official Chinese government figures relating to the virus, numbers which many officials doubt are accurate. It also received criticism for a January 14 tweet noting that preliminary investigation by Chinese authorities had found no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission of the coronavirus.

So not only did the WHO condemn closing borders to prevent transmission, they even proclaimed there was “no evidence” that human-to-human transmission of the disease could occur.

Even when evidence from China overwhelmingly showed that not to be the case.

Check out the latest Tweet’s on Trump’s decision:

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