Donald Trump has threatened to withdraw all American funding for the World Health Organization and to leave the WHO altogether. The New York Times reports:
President Trump threatened to permanently cut off all funds to the World Health Organization Monday night, a dramatic escalation of his repeated attempts to deflect blame for his handling of the pandemic that has killed more than 90,000 people in the United States during the past several months.
In a late-night, four-page letter to the director-general of the W.H.O., Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Mr. Trump accused the global health group of failing to act quickly and aggressively enough against the virus in its early days, in effect denouncing the organization for the very missteps and failures that have been leveled at him and his administration.
It's a clear case of projection -- the sign of a diseased mind:
The president has railed against the W.H.O. for weeks as his own political and public health crisis at home has intensified, saying the group is in the thrall of China, where the virus originated. In the letter, he said the group was responsible for many deaths because it failed to challenge the version of events from Xi Jinping, the president of China, regarding the origin of the virus and its initial spread.
“On January 28, after meeting with President Xi in Beijing, you praised the Chinese government for its ‘transparency’ with respect to the coronavirus, announcing that China had set ‘a new standard for outbreak control’ and ‘bought the world time,’” Mr. Trump wrote in his letter, accusing the W.H.O. of failing to criticize China for cracking down on its own scientists and doctors.
But that criticism from Mr. Trump was particularly ironic given his own very similar comments about China early in the pandemic. On Jan. 24, four days before the W.H.O. comments, Mr. Trump tweeted his own praise of the Chinese leader.
The WHO has its flaws. All organizations do. But it is absolutely essential to protecting global public health. When it comes to public health, Mr. Trump is clearly a weapon of mass destruction. We've known for some time that he doesn't possess a conscience. His latest decision only proves that he is a complete waste of human tissue.
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