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
(32,904 posts)Irish_Dem
(70,197 posts)Orrex
(65,242 posts)Almost.
BonnieJW
(2,901 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
(2,901 posts)"Mr. Holland's Opus" is on Hulu. Love that movie.
travelingthrulife
(2,406 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
(70,197 posts)Then the Pacific democratic alliance.
He is already working on destroying the North America democratic alliances.
patphil
(7,872 posts)Ocelot II
(124,953 posts)we've got all that leftover bleach and ivermectin.
DENVERPOPS
(12,371 posts)with huge inventories of long dildo's with bright lights on the tip............
Blues Heron
(7,043 posts)dflprincess
(28,830 posts)but not with the current make up of Congress.
PortTack
(35,640 posts)FloridaBlues
(4,557 posts)He will never learn.
Dave Bowman
(5,229 posts)
Frank D. Lincoln
(894 posts)erodriguez
(871 posts)Frank D. Lincoln
(894 posts)KitFox
(308 posts)an Ebola related virus.
jls4561
(2,378 posts)dutch777
(4,526 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
(7,022 posts)…and we withdraw from the WHO. Bozo the clown couldn’t do any worse.
LudwigPastorius
(12,536 posts)Trump will put up a tiny, beautiful wall to keep the viruses out...and China will pay for it!
yellow dahlia
(2,453 posts)bucolic_frolic
(50,596 posts)FakeNoose
(37,486 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
(27,797 posts)Blue_Tires
(57,596 posts)FakeNoose
(37,486 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
(5,201 posts)because if there is, we are totally screwed.
hadEnuf
(3,215 posts)Or to the American public?
rubbersole
(9,877 posts)And if dear leader says it's bad, it's gotta be bad.
travelingthrulife
(2,406 posts)Plus, they do sciencey stuff that they don't understand so they hate it.
dchill
(42,441 posts)We're all gonna die.
OMGWTF
(4,733 posts)live love laugh
(15,374 posts)endless summer
(55 posts)an idiot.
lonely bird
(2,332 posts)Is a mental illness.
Joinfortmill
(18,130 posts)mountain grammy
(27,841 posts)travelingthrulife
(2,406 posts)He's a mass murderer and MAGA, good christians all, cheer!
poli-junkie
(1,282 posts)in2herbs
(3,722 posts)countries that belong to WHO and provide the info to US (blue states) in that way.
Linda ladeewolf
(906 posts)I’d better order some face masks then.
barbtries
(30,449 posts)have no plans to.
Linda ladeewolf
(906 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
(11,359 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
(43,776 posts)We will be working with Putin after that
Ursus Rex
(379 posts)There can be only One - Putin only works with others until he gets them in a position of subservience and/or dependence.
barbtries
(30,449 posts)they want us to die.
LPBBEAR
(538 posts)the job of killing us all that he couldn't complete in 2020 when he lost that election.
Coolgoober
(102 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
(39,520 posts)
moondust
(20,881 posts)
MissouriDem47
(170 posts)We have, as of today, 1,459 more days of his destruction.
Paladin
(30,570 posts)Before trump and RFK jr. outlaw them.
CousinIT
(11,413 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
(30,570 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
(11,413 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
(30,570 posts)Botany
(74,276 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
(119 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.