Trump pulls US out of World Health Organization - claims China controls critical international group
Source: Raw Story
Published 6 mins ago on May 29, 2020
By David Badash, The New Civil Rights Movement
President Donald Trump has just announced he is pulling the United States out of the World Health Organization in the middle of a global pandemic. To support his move Trump claimed China controls the WHO.
Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/2020/05/trump-pulls-us-out-of-world-health-organization-claims-china-controls-critical-international-group/
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)unblock
(52,243 posts)SunSeeker
(51,564 posts)BittyJenkins
(411 posts)Our country just officially became a third world country. Pray for Joe.
Firestorm49
(4,035 posts)Devil Child
(2,728 posts)Once again, Trump squanders US strategic power.
Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)Trump would continually get his ass kicked in the game of Candy Land by a four-year-old. He would probably just sit there eating the colored cards.
LudwigPastorius
(9,150 posts)Absolutely brilliant move, considering we are in the middle of a pandemic, and we lead the world in total cases, total active cases, total serious or critical cases, and total deaths.
Blood on your hands, you stupid, evil son of a bitch!
Grokenstein
(5,723 posts)"I'm the only one hurting because of all this!"
gademocrat7
(10,659 posts)This is despicable.
Lock him up.
(6,929 posts)BlueIdaho
(13,582 posts)lastlib
(23,239 posts)BadGimp
(4,015 posts)A real leader would step up, step in, and take over.
TomCADem
(17,387 posts)It is sort of like Trump punishing Russia by pulling out of a treaty permitting oversight over testing.
Sucha NastyWoman
(2,749 posts)Wonder if theyll take us back?
nitpicker
(7,153 posts)""We will be today terminating our relationshi with the World Health Organization" and redirecting funds".
((My thoughts: To where? His cronies' pockets??))
EndlessWire
(6,536 posts)My first thought, too. I think he is fleecing us royal.
We have to get rid of this Orange Punk.
bucolic_frolic
(43,173 posts)He knows more than all the doctors, he's better than 500 years of Chinese herbal medicine, better than all the technology you can muster! Don't you think?
atreides1
(16,079 posts)His daughter/wife Ivanka, still has all of those business licenses through the Chinese government...
llmart
(15,540 posts)This is a VERY big deal. He truly wants to kill us.
I don't know very many Trump cultists personally because I just wouldn't allow someone that stupid and gullible in my life, but don't ever ask me to "work with them and understand where they're coming from". They are the imbeciles who enable this cretin to do these sorts of things.
I'm at a loss for words. The GOP sits back and allows this to happen. We absolutely MUST stand together and rid our country of this nightmare! And not just him. He's only able to do these things because of the GOP allowing it.
I'm just furious right now.
Maeve
(42,282 posts)Ball's in your court, China
EndlessWire
(6,536 posts)Was Hong Kong getting special treatment as it was associated with China, but he's now cutting them loose because he's mad at China? Or, is he helping China by pretending?
That was poorly written, and his flat reading of it made it worse. I was left with a feeling that we threw Hong Kong under the bus.
So, basically we withdrew from WHO, cut the jugular of Hong Hong, and bent over for Xi? How is this hurting China?
I smell a rat. He backed down from push back against China, ad left the UK dangling. What a fucker.
Maeve
(42,282 posts)Altho I imagine his "mind" as one of those ball puzzles where ever so often it lands in a hole if you shake his head juusssttt riiight.....
EndlessWire
(6,536 posts)Initech
(100,079 posts)EndlessWire
(6,536 posts)Did he not say that China had abused their agreement over Hong Kong, so now he is cutting all the special status that Hong Kong had? What does this mean, please?
He is a coward. Also, I think he just handed the South China Sea to China. That sea is shared with several nations, and it doesn't belong to China.
Hard to keep up with all this crap. While we follow the various riots, King Trump has handed us a chilling scenario.
I wish Hillary would come back and be VP. Also, I wouldn't mind two VPs. Yeah, I know, but I want someone to kick his ass.
hadEnuf
(2,191 posts)Thanks asshole Republicans!
Ford_Prefect
(7,901 posts)He's threatened to do many things like this in the past only to find out there's no legal basis for him to do it. Either because the organization funding is controlled by Congress or because he can't by himself terminate the relationship. He can tell ambassadors what to say, recall them, and set policy goals. But I don't quite see how he does this one.
Yes, I know dumbfbrain usually barks before he knows what he's saying, and the big bully cry-baby likes to strut his anger. This one makes no sense at all from what I can see. The news only shows him pontificating on how he'll hurt China with no details and no followup about how the W.H.O. withdrawal actually occurs. I know he ducked out without questions but the treaty involving the USA in W.H.O. must have some details about how it is administered and what methods exist for termination.
Anyone else have an explanation?