Trump Withdraws U.S. from World Health Organization
Source: NYT
President Trump moved quickly on Monday to withdraw the United States from the World Health Organization, a move that public health experts say will undermine the nation’s standing as a global health leader and make it harder to fight the next pandemic.
The move was not unexpected. Mr. Trump has been railing against the W.H.O. since 2020, when he attacked the agency over its approach to the coronavirus pandemic and threatened to withhold United States funding from it. But after he lost the 2020 election the threat did not materialize.
Leaving the W.H.O. would mean, among other things, that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention would have no access to the global data that the agency provides. When China characterized the genetic sequence of the novel coronavirus in 2020, it released the information to W.H.O., which shared it with other nations.
More recently, the W.H.O. has become a target of conservatives over its work on a “pandemic treaty” ato strengthen pandemic preparedness and set legally binding policies for member countries on surveillance of pathogens, rapid sharing of outbreak data, and building up local manufacturing and supply chains for vaccines and treatments, among others.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/20/us/politics/trump-world-health-organization.html

DURHAM D
(32,889 posts)Irish_Dem
(67,192 posts)Orrex
(64,940 posts)Almost.
BonnieJW
(2,838 posts)For the Ukraine war. Get the clown elected and make his cabinet absurd. Get someone like Pig Hegseth as secretary of defense so our country is defenseless, and then wait and see what Russia does.
BonnieJW
(2,838 posts)"Mr. Holland's Opus" is on Hulu. Love that movie.
travelingthrulife
(1,945 posts)Blue_Tires
(57,596 posts)There were just enough halfway sane people in Donnie's first term to prevent him from breaking up NATO, but not anymore now...
And for those useful idiots out there who were sick and tired of the U.S. being a global hegemon, they're going to absolutely love life once Red China fully inherits the role...
Irish_Dem
(67,192 posts)Then the Pacific democratic alliance.
He is already working on destroying the North America democratic alliances.
patphil
(7,600 posts)Ocelot II
(123,948 posts)we've got all that leftover bleach and ivermectin.
DENVERPOPS
(11,584 posts)with huge inventories of long dildo's with bright lights on the tip............
Blues Heron
(6,680 posts)dflprincess
(28,738 posts)but not with the current make up of Congress.
PortTack
(35,452 posts)FloridaBlues
(4,498 posts)He will never learn.
Dave Bowman
(4,886 posts)
Frank D. Lincoln
(894 posts)erodriguez
(856 posts)Frank D. Lincoln
(894 posts)KitFox
(267 posts)an Ebola related virus.
jls4561
(2,145 posts)dutch777
(4,172 posts)Also may have ramifications for US medical and pharma businesses if those who countries stay in the WHO steer future vaccine and other work to non US companies as a result.
surfered
(5,870 posts)…and we withdraw from the WHO. Bozo the clown couldn’t do any worse.
LudwigPastorius
(12,033 posts)Trump will put up a tiny, beautiful wall to keep the viruses out...and China will pay for it!
yellow dahlia
(2,110 posts)bucolic_frolic
(49,513 posts)FakeNoose
(37,054 posts)Chump's beef with W.H.O. goes back to his previous term when he was blamed for the deaths of almost a million Americans (give or take). Chump needs to find a believable scapegoat, and for some crazy reason, nobody is willing to blame Dr. Fauci.
So it must be the fault of the World Health Organization. Yeah, that's the ticket!
littlemissmartypants
(27,069 posts)Blue_Tires
(57,596 posts)FakeNoose
(37,054 posts)... against anyone who puts a dent in his ego. And he won't stop until he gets it.
That's why I say this isn't about money
Wiz Imp
(4,579 posts)because if there is, we are totally screwed.
hadEnuf
(3,073 posts)Or to the American public?
rubbersole
(9,615 posts)And if dear leader says it's bad, it's gotta be bad.
travelingthrulife
(1,945 posts)Plus, they do sciencey stuff that they don't understand so they hate it.
dchill
(41,799 posts)We're all gonna die.
OMGWTF
(4,631 posts)live love laugh
(15,103 posts)endless summer
(55 posts)an idiot.
lonely bird
(2,190 posts)Is a mental illness.
Joinfortmill
(17,700 posts)mountain grammy
(27,639 posts)travelingthrulife
(1,945 posts)He's a mass murderer and MAGA, good christians all, cheer!
poli-junkie
(1,236 posts)in2herbs
(3,625 posts)countries that belong to WHO and provide the info to US (blue states) in that way.
Linda ladeewolf
(814 posts)I’d better order some face masks then.
barbtries
(30,281 posts)have no plans to.
Linda ladeewolf
(814 posts)For a while. I seem to have been sick since I had Covid the first time in 2020. So it didn’t seem to matter.
NoMoreRepugs
(11,138 posts)get the 2025 agenda up to ludicrous speed. You will know we are totally fucked when he directs the U.S. treasury to get involved in crypto.
YoshidaYui
(43,431 posts)We will be working with Putin after that
Ursus Rex
(352 posts)There can be only One - Putin only works with others until he gets them in a position of subservience and/or dependence.
barbtries
(30,281 posts)they want us to die.
LPBBEAR
(511 posts)the job of killing us all that he couldn't complete in 2020 when he lost that election.
Coolgoober
(28 posts)What about his approach to the corona virus? Didn't he say only 13 or 15 people have the virus and it will go away soon? He's trying to lay blame on anyone else other than him because his response to covid was the worst possible. A 12 year old could have done better.
hunter
(39,438 posts)
moondust
(20,833 posts)
MissouriDem47
(138 posts)We have, as of today, 1,459 more days of his destruction.
Paladin
(29,965 posts)Before trump and RFK jr. outlaw them.
CousinIT
(11,185 posts)I had to make a video appt. Pfft.
I need to know - if vaccines are no longer mandatory for kids entering school or for pandemics and spreading infectious disease - do I need things such as Hep B and/or a polio booster?
We had these as kids (polio, measles, mumps, rubella, whooping cough) but that shit is going to be spreading again. How do the sane people who vaccinate their kids and believe in vaccines protect themselves? Were the vaccines we got as children intended to last a lifetime? What about elderly people exposed to that crap from people's kids?
???
Paladin
(29,965 posts)He needed it because of the effects of the polio he had as a child. trump and rfk jr. don't give a flying fuck about our kids and grandkids being decimated by polio and other diseases we all thought were a thing of the past. Confer with your doctors and get your kids and yourselves some vaccination protection. And while you're at it, cut off all contact with any friends and relatives who helped put these crazy motherfuckers back in power.
CousinIT
(11,185 posts)I haven't spoken to them since November 5th except to let them know I'm OK and still alive. Other than that, nothing. I have nothing to say to them.
How do I even talk to these hatemongers?
Paladin
(29,965 posts)Botany
(73,699 posts)The Chinese sequenced the Coronavirus genome which they sent to the W.H.O. the W.H.O.
sent that data to Germany and a German firm made the first test for the C-19 virus and disease
which Trump rejected and tried to sell his on testing operation which didn’t work and the world
now has 14 million less people.
I think Vlad Putin wants diseases to spread to bring down Western Democracies and Trump
is helping him.
Of the love of God we have an illiterate psychopath as President who wants to kill people.
Blue_Tires
(57,596 posts)My blind rage is reserved for those who continue to support and enable this lunacy...
Johnny999r
(117 posts)Another ignorant and fool move by Trump. Anybody that he perceives as a threat to his school yard bully mentality is on the revenge list. I can't believe he's the President of this great country, but now, he's the laughing target of the world. I was a Republican for many years, but now the party is spineless and compromised. It's sickening to watch how they kiss his ass, what a joke.