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raccoon

(31,128 posts)
Tue May 19, 2020, 10:38 AM May 2020

Trump threatens to halt WHO funding, review U.S. membership

Source: Reuters

MAY 19, 2020 / 03:27 AM / UPDATED 2 MINUTES AGO

(Reuters) -

U.S. President Donald Trump threatened on Monday to permanently halt funding for the World Health Organization (WHO) if it did not commit to improvements within within 30 days, and to reconsider his country’s membership of the agency.

My administration has already started discussions with you on how to reform the organization. But action is needed quickly. We do not have time to waste."

Monday's letter on official White House letterhead, screenshots of which were posted to Twitter, assails the WHO's stance toward China throughout the pandemic and lists a series of allegations that the organization overlooked warning signs.
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"If the WHO does not commit to major substantive improvements within the next 30 days, I will make my temporary freeze of United States funding to the WHO permanent and reconsider our membership," Trump told its chief, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, in a letter posted bit.ly/3bNB3R7 on Twitter.


Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-trump-who/trump-threatens-to-halt-who-funding-review-u-s-membership-idUSKBN22V0B0



It’s always somebody else’s fault.
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turbinetree

(24,735 posts)
1. Since "he" and "his cronies" have BLOOD ON THERE HANDS.................more fucking
Tue May 19, 2020, 10:41 AM
May 2020

deflection.............. .

dawg day

(7,947 posts)
2. And it's all to bolster his angry ego-
Tue May 19, 2020, 10:41 AM
May 2020

He doesn't give a sht about the WHO's internal problems. And he doesn't care that they are in the middle of a pandemic and trying feverishly to help 212 countries save people.

Oh, no, he got in a snit at some point and is now 'giving them 30 days".

I really don't understand how Trump can unilaterally renege on treaties and memberships and funding passed by Congress. Just because he DOES, I guess, and no one can stop him.

ananda

(28,887 posts)
4. "Reform" means break it to suit my desperate insanity.
Tue May 19, 2020, 10:46 AM
May 2020

WHO will not cave.

They have other sources of funding.

MineralMan

(146,338 posts)
5. Without the warnings from the WHO, the US would not have known
Tue May 19, 2020, 10:56 AM
May 2020

about the virus and Trump couldn't have ignored the warnings.

I'm not quite sure how that would have helped us, really. The WHO told the world about COVID-19. The world ignored that organization's warnings.

So, that's why we should stop funding the WHO? How does that make any sense?

 

ripcord

(5,553 posts)
11. China is deciding who attends the WHO Assembly
Tue May 19, 2020, 11:29 AM
May 2020

The Republic of China has done very well combating covid-19 and is having success with vaccine trials, keeping them away had nothing to do with dealing with this disease and everything to do with politics. If that is how the WHO is run why should we bother with it? I hope this spurs The Republic of China to flat out declare its self a free country, demand membership in the U.N. so we can end this ridiculous political theater.

 

Devil Child

(2,728 posts)
13. WHO was insisting no human to human spread of COVID in January
Tue May 19, 2020, 11:36 AM
May 2020

When there was plenty of evidence supporting the contrary. Trump is an evil fuck but the WHO is not without failings and shouldn’t be held up on a pedestal IMO.

machoneman

(4,016 posts)
8. Said elsewhere, he may be afraid WHO is 1st in developing a real vaccine. And giving it away free!
Tue May 19, 2020, 11:00 AM
May 2020

WHO is the leading edge btw in monitoring the world-wide effort to develop a proven vaccine. If for example a WHO member government or private WHO member lab rolls out even limited dosages of said vaccine by say October, they will first send it to any country, China included, before we in America would get it, let alone for free. This would kill Trumpy as WHO can claim that well, since you blocked all aid and dropped your membership in our organization, why should we give you any doses?

Only Trumpy, in the middle of a world-wide pandemic, would shut off all relations with the only world-class and world-wide health organization that has helped all countries since 1946 in fighting all kinds of diseases. Read all about it below.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Health_Organization

Only the Orange Menace............dufus!

 

greenjar_01

(6,477 posts)
10. Honestly, WHO should tell the US to pound sand at this point
Tue May 19, 2020, 11:19 AM
May 2020

No cooperation, no positions for US nationals, no info sharing with US labs, industry, or universities. Finis. Come back when you feel like acting like adults.

notdarkyet

(2,226 posts)
14. There was an announcement the other day, don't remember where that who has already decided they
Tue May 19, 2020, 11:50 AM
May 2020

Will do it without trump. Maybe that’s what trump is mad about. That and the free vaccine.

TomCADem

(17,390 posts)
12. Trump Is Trying to Bully WHO Into Being a Scapegoat
Tue May 19, 2020, 11:31 AM
May 2020

it is always all about avoiding blame for Trump. So, Trump is threatening funding until the WHO agrees to accept responsibility for Trump's incompetence.

The problem is you also can't trust Trump. So, if you accept the deal with Trump, he will still withhold funding because the WHO has now accepted the blame directed at Trump.

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