Trump halts World Health Organization funding over handling of coronavirus outbreak

[Mr. Sparkle]

Source: CNN

President Donald Trump announced Tuesday he is halting funding to the World Health Organization while a review is conducted. Trump said the review would cover the WHO's "role in severely mismanaging and covering up the spread of coronavirus." Trump's announcement comes in the middle of the worst global pandemic in decades and as he angrily defends his own handling of the outbreak in the United States.

Amid swirling questions about whether he downplayed the crisis or ignored warnings from members of his administration about its potential severity, Trump has sought to assign blame elsewhere, including at the WHO and in the news media. His decision to withdraw funding from the WHO follows a pattern of skepticism of world organizations that began well before the coronavirus pandemic. Trump has questioned US funding to the United Nations, withdrew from global climate agreements and lambasted the World Trade Organization -- claiming all were ripping off the United States.

Read more: https://edition.cnn.com/2020/04/14/politics/donald-trump-world-health-organization-funding-coronavirus/index.html

[tblue37]

1. What an idiot stick. nt

[George II]

2. So he's blaming his abject ineptitude on WHO?

[paleotn]

4. Yes....

looking far and wide for scapegoats.

[Botany]

10. So the WHO made him say the following?

[Lock him up.]

19. For everything the Orangeviru$ says, the opposite is true.

Anything he 'assure you' of will never happen.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

32. Anyone but himself is fair game

He never takes responsibility for anything.

[Iliyah]

3. Hasn't the USA already paid WHO's dues . . .

for the year? I'm pretty sure they have already cashed the check.

[Botany]

5. We are drowning and Trump wants to get rid of the rescue boats?

The WHO did tell Trump early on about the C-19 pandemic and he blew them off and
he refused to use their C-19 test kits. Those kits have worked very well in every other
country that have used them. See S. Korea & New Zealand.


And why did Trump refuse the WHO's test kits? So he could "wet his beak" and sell
his own model to the US Government.

Trump is the biggest fuck up in history. He should lose every state this fall.

[AtheistCrusader]

11. AND alienate us from our allies by ceasing PPE supplies that they need at the worst time.

[Backseat Driver]

6. WTF!

[AtheistCrusader]

7. Well, that'll fix it. Right?

The WHO is by no means perfect, but it's a good investment. NO committee/org is *perfect*.

[global1]

8. Who Is Putting This Idea Of Stopping Funding To The WHO....

and why are his people and the Repugs letting him get away with this?

[AtheistCrusader]

12. Generally speaking, the only UN/WHO funding that conservatives support is

for a few greasy old bulldozers to push the headquarters into the East River.

[TrollBuster9090]

9. SQUIRREL!! Look! SQUIRREL!

That's terrible, but it's still just a pathetic ploy to distract attention from his own incompetence. It's a ploy that would've worked a year ago, like yanking Brennon and Clapper's security clearances. But yanking the WHO funding will account for 5 minutes of the next news cycle; and then back to the shit-show.

(And BTW, the United States donates $52 million to the WHO. I'd love to see Bill Gates or Mike Bloomberg make a $52 million donation to the WHO, just for spite.)

[bucolic_frolic]

13. "severely mismanaging and covering up the spread of coronavirus" - Isn't this what Trump did?

[JDC]

14. Typical blame-game, projection BS from this loser.

[alp227]

15. Sorry, we won't be fooled again in November.

[wendyb-NC]

16. He's doing what he can to punish the world for his own incompetence.

[Mersky]

17. Freakin awful decision.

Is such a pinheaded thing to do, that the incompetence of it all must be intentional. He’s getting off on killing people and is flaunting his power to make things worse.

Twenty fifth amendment needed to happen yesterday.

[pazzyanne]

18. What can we espect from a president that shuts down...

the White House pandemic task force and defunds the CDC. I have no words for this POS

[turbinetree]

20. What a dick.............

[bearssoapbox]

21. Can individual states pay into WHO and be covered by WHO policies

and have the advantages of being part of the WHO organization?

I would donate to that cause.

[machoneman]

22. Smart! The house is on fire, let's cut off the water supply!

[Thekaspervote]

23. Anyone...anyone who is thinking of not voting...please reconsider

[Haggis for Breakfast]

24. NEVER UNDERESTIMATE THE HYPOCRISY OF REPUBLICANS.

[Takket]

25. is there anything Pelosi can do to stop this? Pass a funding bill?

[LudwigPastorius]

26. Trump's a walking colostomy bag.

...just a foul excuse for a human being.

[EndlessWire]

27. Just a lowlife grifter

who wants to shift the blame for his own mishandling of the response to someone else.

He isn't to blame for the actual virus, but everything he's done since is extremely questionable. His attempts to weaponize the virus against his own citizens is despicable.

He has a classic narcissistic personality, and I think he isn't capable of being any different than he shows us. And, nobody but nobody is fooled.

Vote Blue. Get rid of this grifter and his evil spawn and buddies come November.

[SergeStorms]

28. LOOK! SQUIRREL!

Nothing to see here, but if you look OVER THERE you can plainly see it was the W.H.O. that made the United States government totally fuck this up. It certainly wasn't me!

[Warpy]

29. I think he blew a fit and wants to defund them

but of course the funding will be quietly replaced, hidden in something else.

He's a big baby and can't stand having people who know he dropped the ball pointing it out.

[duforsure]

30. trumps weak attempt trying to redirect blame

Away from his clear failures preventing this from being as bad exposes how he is incompetent, or intentionally evil and tied to putin for this..

[TomVilmer]

31. Trump does not have the authority to withhold lawfully appropriated funds

“The President DOES NOT have the authority to permanently withhold funds lawfully appropriated by Congress. You might think Donald Trump would have learned this important fact during the past 9 months!”
Rep. Don Beyer (D-Va.)

Link to tweet

[duforsure]

33. With corrupt trump he may consider doing this

Starting a "Trump World Health Fund" of course using the funds for himself. Pressuring countries into giving to it , or else.