According to recent reports, President-elect Donald Trump is looking to withdraw the United States from the World Health Organization (WHO) on the first day he returns to power. Conservatives, including Trump, have continually criticized the organization, which many claim drains unnecessary tax dollars from the United States, the biggest donor. The president-elect has described the WHO as a “globalist scam” controlled by China.
As Trump’s transition team prepares for the transfer of power at next month’s inauguration, officials within the administration have made claims that the U.S. will immediately withdraw from the global organization on day one. Such a move would present a substantial problem for the WHO, as America constitutes roughly 16 percent of its total funding.
Trump recently released a video statement voicing his criticism of the WHO. “The World Health Organization has become nothing more than a corrupt globalist scam paid for by the United States, but owned and controlled by China,” he began. “When the China virus reached our shores three years ago, the World Health Organization disgracefully covered the tracks of the Chinese Communist Party every single step of the way.”
Trump explained that he ended the U.S.’s involvement in the organization for this reason. “For this reason, it was my great honor to terminate America’s relationship with the World Health Organization. The United States was paying the World Health Organization almost $500 million a year when I dropped out, I took it out of there and for 330 million people, even though China was paying only $40 million for 1.4 billion people,” he continued.
However, Trump added, “Unfortunately, crooked Joe Biden foolishly re entered the World Health Organization at the full price and without any negotiations or reforms, and now Biden is pushing to bypass the United States Senate to enter a pandemic treaty that would surrender American sovereignty to the World Health Organization, again controlled by China.”
Blasting the requirements of participating the WHO, the president-elect said, “The draft treaty would require the United States to send vast quantities of medical supplies to other countries in the event of another pandemic, and it would push aggressive censorship of free speech on issues of public health, just like they censored the truth about the Wuhan Lab, which I said that’s where it came from.”
Vowing to pull the U.S. from the organization for a second time, Trump noted, “Remember, under the next Trump administration, that treaty will be immediately terminated. I would not allow public health to be used as a pretext to advance the march of global government. That’s what they’re doing. Globalists, the United States will withdraw from the corrupt world health organization, which, in light of its utter failure and COVID, they had a tremendous disaster on COVID deserves to be completely abolished and replaced.”
Watch Trump below:
President Trump has decided to withdraw the USA from the World Health Organisation and the Pandemic Preparedness Treaty, criticising them as corrupt entities that threaten free speech and national sovereignty. Our nation should consider taking similar action. pic.twitter.com/4OiwpFcLnX
— Bob M 🇬🇧💫 (@bobmca1) November 13, 2024
Trump concluded his video statement, “Then I will work to forge a new coalition of nations that are strongly committed to protecting health while also upholding sovereignty and freedom. I want to thank you very much. But I also want to say this, I could have renegotiated the deal. I could have gone into the World Health Organization for $25 million Biden. Didn’t take that deal. He’s paying almost $500 million they were so anxious to get the United States back after I terminated the agreement, they were so anxious to get it back that they offered me a deal 25 to $30 million and I said, No, I’ll wait. Could have gotten it for less, but I didn’t want less. At that point, we were paying almost 500 million. he knew he could have gotten back in for less. So why did he pay so much? But that’s just one of many things that are wrong with our country. Thank you very much.”
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