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 nations 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
(32,862 posts)Irish_Dem
(61,396 posts)Orrex
(64,466 posts)Almost.
BonnieJW
(2,667 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
(2,667 posts)"Mr. Holland's Opus" is on Hulu. Love that movie.
travelingthrulife
(1,213 posts)Blue_Tires
(57,536 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
(61,396 posts)Then the Pacific democratic alliance.
He is already working on destroying the North America democratic alliances.
patphil
(7,235 posts)Ocelot II
(122,067 posts)we've got all that leftover bleach and ivermectin.
DENVERPOPS
(10,431 posts)with huge inventories of long dildo's with bright lights on the tip............
Blues Heron
(6,264 posts)dflprincess
(28,595 posts)but not with the current make up of Congress.
PortTack
(35,039 posts)FloridaBlues
(4,415 posts)He will never learn.
Dave Bowman
(4,180 posts)Frank D. Lincoln
(769 posts)erodriguez
(802 posts)Frank D. Lincoln
(769 posts)KitFox
(138 posts)an Ebola related virus.
jls4561
(1,692 posts)dutch777
(3,729 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
(4,248 posts)and we withdraw from the WHO. Bozo the clown couldnt do any worse.
LudwigPastorius
(11,311 posts)Trump will put up a tiny, beautiful wall to keep the viruses out...and China will pay for it!
yellow dahlia
(547 posts)bucolic_frolic
(48,045 posts)FakeNoose
(36,284 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
(26,175 posts)Blue_Tires
(57,536 posts)FakeNoose
(36,284 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
(2,844 posts)because if there is, we are totally screwed.
hadEnuf
(2,871 posts)Or to the American public?
rubbersole
(8,846 posts)And if dear leader says it's bad, it's gotta be bad.
travelingthrulife
(1,213 posts)Plus, they do sciencey stuff that they don't understand so they hate it.
dchill
(40,962 posts)We're all gonna die.
OMGWTF
(4,508 posts)live love laugh
(14,739 posts)endless summer
(55 posts)an idiot.
lonely bird
(2,025 posts)Is a mental illness.
Joinfortmill
(16,881 posts)mountain grammy
(27,458 posts)travelingthrulife
(1,213 posts)He's a mass murderer and MAGA, good christians all, cheer!
poli-junkie
(1,162 posts)in2herbs
(3,289 posts)countries that belong to WHO and provide the info to US (blue states) in that way.
Linda ladeewolf
(542 posts)Id better order some face masks then.
barbtries
(30,074 posts)have no plans to.
Linda ladeewolf
(542 posts)For a while. I seem to have been sick since I had Covid the first time in 2020. So it didnt seem to matter.
NoMoreRepugs
(10,761 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
(43,068 posts)We will be working with Putin after that
Ursus Rex
(303 posts)There can be only One - Putin only works with others until he gets them in a position of subservience and/or dependence.
barbtries
(30,074 posts)they want us to die.
LPBBEAR
(414 posts)the job of killing us all that he couldn't complete in 2020 when he lost that election.
Coolgoober
(11 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
(39,146 posts)moondust
(20,608 posts)MissouriDem47
(67 posts)We have, as of today, 1,459 more days of his destruction.
Paladin
(29,147 posts)Before trump and RFK jr. outlaw them.
CousinIT
(10,680 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
(29,147 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
(10,680 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
(29,147 posts)Botany
(72,850 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 didnt 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
(57,536 posts)My blind rage is reserved for those who continue to support and enable this lunacy...