Trump Withdraws U.S. from World Health Organization

[EarthFirst]

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]

1. Fuck

[Irish_Dem]

2. Dismantling US global power and influence.

[Orrex]

14. Almost as if he's acting in the interests of a hostile foreign power to whom he's in deep debt

Almost.

[BonnieJW]

22. This is putin's revenge against the US

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]

37. If you want to lift your spirits,

"Mr. Holland's Opus" is on Hulu. Love that movie.

[travelingthrulife]

49. We are so vulnerable right now.

[Blue_Tires]

62. NATO is next... That's always been on Donnie's list

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]

63. Yes NATO is next.

Then the Pacific democratic alliance.

He is already working on destroying the North America democratic alliances.

[patphil]

3. Yeah, expected that. Anything that's reasonable and worthwhile will be trashed.

[Ocelot II]

4. But bird flu is a hoax, and even if it isn't,

we've got all that leftover bleach and ivermectin.

[DENVERPOPS]

17. And warehouses overflowing

with huge inventories of long dildo's with bright lights on the tip............

[Blues Heron]

5. Can we impeach him yet?

[dflprincess]

24. Maybe after the midterms

but not with the current make up of Congress.

[PortTack]

28. Definitely after 5e midterms!

[FloridaBlues]

6. No surprise he did the first time as well as Paris Climate agreement

He will never learn.

[Dave Bowman]

7. This is total madness and puts everyone in danger. And not just in the U.S.

[Frank D. Lincoln]

18. He's even putting his own children in danger. nt

[erodriguez]

30. Hah his kids can afford any amount of healthcare.

[Frank D. Lincoln]

46. That's no guarantee. They could still die from a new pandemic. nt

[KitFox]

8. On the very day that Tanzania confirmed an outbreak of Marburg virus disease

an Ebola related virus.

[jls4561]

9. Send some to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

[dutch777]

10. Can't stop it but we can use it later when it comes and bites US in the a** and we can blame Trump.

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]

11. An outbreak of avian flu and Marburg disease..

…and we withdraw from the WHO. Bozo the clown couldn’t do any worse.

[LudwigPastorius]

27. Don't worry.

Trump will put up a tiny, beautiful wall to keep the viruses out...and China will pay for it!

[yellow dahlia]

12. Yeh - nothing scary about this...

[bucolic_frolic]

13. Trump is a one trick pony. End all government spending so he can steal the money with tax cuts. /nt

[FakeNoose]

25. I don't think this is about money

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. Everything is about money.

[Blue_Tires]

60. EVERYTHING is either about money, or service to his fragile ego...

[FakeNoose]

61. You forget one thing ... he craves revenge

... 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]

15. For those that believe, better pray there isn't another pandemic

because if there is, we are totally screwed.

[hadEnuf]

16. How do the MAGAnazis spin this as a help to the United States?

Or to the American public?

[rubbersole]

31. Magat initials paranoia.

And if dear leader says it's bad, it's gotta be bad.

[travelingthrulife]

50. They think WHO refuses to investigate Chyna for starting covid on purpose.

Plus, they do sciencey stuff that they don't understand so they hate it.

[dchill]

19. I don't think he should be able to do that.

We're all gonna die.

[OMGWTF]

20. The Rethuglicans want us sick, stupid, and poor.

[live love laugh]

29. And dead ☠️

[endless summer]

21. He's

an idiot.

[lonely bird]

23. U.s. conservatism...

Is a mental illness.

[Joinfortmill]

32. It begins

[mountain grammy]

33. Maybe he can kill another million people

[travelingthrulife]

52. We should be able to compare him to Pol Pot soon.

He's a mass murderer and MAGA, good christians all, cheer!

[poli-junkie]

34. Can blue states work with the WHO?

[in2herbs]

53. I did a quick search re this question and my answer would be no, but perhaps NGOs can partner with

countries that belong to WHO and provide the info to US (blue states) in that way.

[Linda ladeewolf]

35. Guess

I’d better order some face masks then.

[barbtries]

40. i never stopped masking.

have no plans to.

[Linda ladeewolf]

44. I haven't been

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]

36. A pandemic would provide great cover for the SlobFather to declare a national emergency and really

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]

38. NATO is next

We will be working with Putin after that

[Ursus Rex]

51. *For Putin.

There can be only One - Putin only works with others until he gets them in a position of subservience and/or dependence.

[barbtries]

39. this is really bad.

they want us to die.

[LPBBEAR]

41. He is just finishing....

the job of killing us all that he couldn't complete in 2020 when he lost that election.

[Coolgoober]

42. He attacked their approach to the corona virus

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]

43. So here we are, an idiocracy.

[moondust]

45. Slow genocide.

[MissouriDem47]

47. Trump's damage to the country has just started.

We have, as of today, 1,459 more days of his destruction.

[Paladin]

48. Get your vaccinations NOW.

Before trump and RFK jr. outlaw them.

[CousinIT]

54. I asked my doc's office about extra vaccinations (polio booster, etc) and they told me

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]

56. My best friend of 70 years just got a hip replacement.

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]

57. Yes. That cutting off the crazy mofos? I've done that.

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]

58. Don't talk to them. Save your efforts for something worthwhile. Best of luck to you. (nt)

[Botany]

55. The W.H.O. handled the C-19 outbreak as best they could

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]

59. I'm at the point where I can't even get mad at Donnie anymore because he is who he is...

My blind rage is reserved for those who continue to support and enable this lunacy...

[Johnny999r]

64. WHO

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.