In a White House press briefing on Tuesday, President Trump criticized the World Health Organization's coronavirus response and threatened to cut its funding.In a White House press briefing on Tuesday, President Trump criticized the World Health Organization's coronavirus response and threatened to cut its funding.President Trump assailed the World Health Organization on Tuesday, and indicated that he will consider putting a hold on funding it.
In a media briefing at the White House, Trump twice stated that the United States funds the majority of the organization's budget. According to the WHO, the United StatesThe WHO has been the most prominent global organization leading the strategy to stem the spread of the novel coronavirus. But on Tuesday, Trump criticized the WHO as slow to respond to the crisis, and repeatedly said the organization has been"China-centric." He complained that the WHO"receives vast amounts of money from the United States" and that the organization"called it wrong."
"They could have called it months earlier," he said."They would have known and they should have known and they probably did not. So we'll be looking into that very carefully." Trump at one point said"we're gonna put a hold on money spent to the WHO," before backtracking later in the briefing and saying"we're going to take a look at it.""I don't know, they seem to come down on the side of China," Trump replied."'Don't close your borders to China,' they don't report what's really going on. They didn't see it, and yet they were there, they didn't see what was going on in Wuhan.
FACT: Bill Gates and his friends gave the WHO more funding than the US.
WHO is an extension of China’s communist propaganda machine. They did not support Trumps travel ban to protect the communist regime and put thousands of lives at risk. DrainTheDeepState COVID Covid2019TR coronavirus WHOLiedPeopleDied WalkAway DemocratsTheEnemyWithin
If the USA paid 14.6% of the WHO funding then I calculate China paid only 1.3%. China is a country of 4x the population of the USA so we paid 40X more per person than China! How is that fair when China wet markets are the source of so many emerging diseases - SARS and COVID19?
Let's see the all the countries percentages that contribute. Are you going to show them?
Stop covering this assclown
Good then the CHO won’t miss the 15%; cut it off now.
He’s absolutely inhumane
Of course... There always has to be some enemy of the ones hiding from accountability...
Another false allegation. Trump corrected himself. No wonder no one watches or reads your Hitler like propaganda.
No fun of Trump but he is right about WHO: they are against travel ban when it could have stoped the spreading in the world. They did not Issues strong warnings and declare pandemic until it’s too late...
He corrected himself you disingenuous hacks. FakeNews
You were saying....
So who's going to hold him accountable for dropping the ball too....
Donald Trump is 100% all-around creep. Clueless & self-important
Is it me, or is he getting angrier and angrier? Who wants to watch that?
NPR just lying about silly things now. He corrects himself one second after he says majority and switches it to “we provide the most money to them of any country”. I mean literally mid sentence. Trump lies all the time and yet you burn your credibility on things like this? Why?
There are the only org doing a good job right now
JDNewEngland As usual, just another lie. Does anyone believe anything he says anymore?
Geez, you make it sound like he has no idea what he’s talking about.
Does America have any allies left?
Point all the fingers you want, you lying SOB. Don't forget that YOU downplayed it as well, realDonaldTrump. You should resign. Today. BloodOnTrumpsHands COVID19 NegligentHomicide VoteBlue, dammit!
The bully in chief
Hey watch the press conference and get your facts straight
realDonaldTrump please defund this is a completely misleading headline. Anyone with half a brain know the US contributes by far more than any other country. WHO lied to us in January and still cover for CCP.
Cover up not working with the hair anymore, either.
AdosGrievances I independently blamed the WHO earlier than most for failing to be the early warning system people expected. Many died. WHO was doing more politics than science. Eg: It claimed out of thin air no H-H transmission. It went on to lecture countries on travel ban; Trump did one.
Numbers are HUGE!!!
So realDonaldTrump supporters blame WHO and not Trump for being completely ill prepared? O fucking K
Could you clarify what is the total contribution from China? I can only see $6M, but not sure I'm reading their docs correctly. Would love to hear more, also if this number is correct, why is China not spending more?
RepAdamSchiff RepJerryNadler SpeakerPelosi SenSchumer This might be an impeachable offense. I think you can spin it like this...defunding the WHO could put US health in danger, weaken us as a country, and thus endanger our national security. You’re welcome! WHO impeachment
He then corrected his statement to say that the US is the biggest contributor.
realDonaldTrump Finally a world leader who is calling out China and WHO... For all his shortcomings this is so important that someone calls out China, this dispicable cover up and subsequent failings of WHO
Remove your post. It’s a lie.
This is a blantant lie and if you don’t remove correct with full apology you are creating a hoax a criminal offense and held accountable. You put our country in danger every lie you make.
The WHO is to blame? NO!!!! At that time you said the pademic was a 'hoax', Mr. T!!!! Stop looking for others you can blame! You are the only one who brought the highest death tolls😤😤😤😤
He should pull funding from them, just like any contributors you have should pull yours.
WHO January 2020: 'The Committee believes that it is still possible to interrupt virus spread, provided that countries put in place strong measures to detect disease early, isolate and treat cases, trace contacts, and promote social distancing measures commensurate with the risk'
15% clearly the majority of anything, all you need to do is not understand percentages as Trump seems to have trouble doing
Another lie Demento.
RemoveTrumpNow CutTrump
U.S can not fight a Pandemic alone: cutting the WHO fund is not a solution. A thoughtful and bright leader would have recommended ways to well equip WHO in fighting a pandemic like COVID-19.
Both are at fault.
Defund them! 👍👍
Little a... the WHO provided you functional testkits you rejected them for your own shity one! Your are a mass murder by this. And now you try to take other in responsibility and save again money. Well we will see on the next pandemic
You forgot to mention he corrected himself but you don’t do journalism you do garbage
WHO was right there warning everyone as soon as the virus hit Wuhan. Trump, otoh, called it a democratic hoax and said it's just one person from China and it will disappear with the warm weather. Projection much, Trump?
Hmm, so he doesn't know what 'majority' means either.
Yes. Out of all the countries in the world no country gives the WHO more money than the US. You know that’s what he meant and it’s disgraceful how you’re pretending otherwise.
Outrageous!
😱😱😱
NPR, fake news and funded by tax dollars... sickening
Watch media carry water now for horrible WHO. Dunking on Trump is not more important than exposing the corruption of this agency.
'The U.S. is the single largest contributor to the WHO. Its assessed contribution is 22% of the total members' assessed contributions.' From the actual article.
This is the same man who took the epidemiologist working on behalf of America out of the Chinese CDC. Every time he tries to make a cut he cuts the country.
WHO let the dogs 🐕 out? Trump! Trump! Trump! Trump! Trump!
How can NPR be a bunch of liars
Jagoff
He should. The WHO completely botched this response.
That’s good then they won’t miss the US’s money as much.
Wh are we talking about that fugwit trump when he makes stuff up. His threats should mean a prison sentence. His actions even more so.
In order: US $57m China $28m Japan $20m Uk $10m So US funds as much as the next 3 countries combined
This is incorrect. He did say majority but then corrected himself immediately. He obviously meant and corrected himself to reflect that the US is the largest contributor. You should delete this post.
npr really this is why you are not trusted as a news source. I get it you don’t like Trump, but you report something that you know be corrected literally in the next sentence.
We should start with npr
Yet his base still chooses to believe him. I can't wait until we know longer have to see his bloated face or hear his whiny voice
Good defund WHO
Yes, out of over 200 countries, do the maths. There are not only 2 contributors.
China chooses only to pay 0.21% in the front door. While the US pays 14.67%. WHO as long as it does not recognize Taiwan, I say stop. We've learned enough here to go on our own. We need to manufacture here and stockpile needed supplies We pay 70 times more then China? Stop!
As usual, well informed!
I guess when trump does not claim any responsibility everyone else is at fault lol.
Since when is 14.67% a majority of WHO's funding 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂. Trump is a JACKASS !!!!!
We give all the monies... so we right!
Jackass
That man...
These are world security threats there needs to be a Central Manager`.
Information is much appreciated. I hope finding and posting real facts catches on:) Are you able to see what % China funded to the WHO as well from same time frame? Im guessing even lower than US?
He’s criticizing THEIR response?!?!?
I know the “cool” thing to do in the media circles is to try to make Trump look bad but the truth is that the US pays way more than any other country. So far this year the WHO has invoiced the US about $59m which is way more than the second leading country China at $28m
Hopefully yours is second!
So... plurality? Or does another country contribute a higher percentage?
Well in trumps defense he dosent know what majority means.
Idiot
Maybe by majority he meant 'the most of any individual nation'. Reinforces his appearance of ineptitude.
I’m sure he meant that the US is the biggest contributor.
It amazes me how someone continues to be so wrong so often.
He has a mental defect.
END all U.S. funding for WHO! TrumpWarRoom 💟🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸💟
What countries contribute more than we do?
WHO is still saying that masks don’t work 🙄 They also said back in January that the virus wasn’t transmittable from person to person. They also still won’t mention that Taiwan exists. Just an all around petty and pathetic organization that’s worthless and inept to the core
Good we will keep our 14.67%. AmericaFirst
In tRUmpese threatening - even promising- is not doing, as Americans are reminded DAILY.
JeezusFuck. I hate him so much. I wish terrible things on him. I shamefully admit.
Sociopath.
There are lies, damned lies and then there are Trump statistics.
What, cutting one organization devoted to controlling pandemics wasn’t enough he now wants to move on to being an asshole on a global scale?
He’s got plans to funnel the money to friendlies.
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