[News] Donald Trump accuses the WHO of being a "puppet of China" and threatens to abandon it

[Dr.Drako]

The ultimatum has been interpreted by his opponents as part of a strategy to find an external enemy to blame for his mistakes in managing the pandemic

Donald Trump today threatened to shut off the tap permanently to the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations agency that the US president again accused of being a "puppet" serving the interests of China. An ultimatum that has been interpreted by his opponents as part of a strategy to find an external enemy to blame for his mistakes in managing the coronavirus pandemic.
 

"They are a puppet from China," denounced the president during a meeting with the press at the White House in which he recalled that the United States is the largest contributor with an annual contribution of $ 450 million to the WHO budget, compared to 38 million that Beijing allocates. Despite this disparity, the United Nations agency "is too focused on China, to say the least," said Trump.
 

Washington already suspended its contributions to the WHO in mid-April, but then it was only temporarily for a period of 60 days while investigating the organization's management of the coronavirus pandemic. But now the US president has raised the tone of his threats and issued an ultimatum with specific dates for a possible final US withdrawal from the United Nations agency.
 

"If the WHO does not carry out substantial substantial improvements in the next thirty days, the temporary freezing that I ordered of our contributions to the organization it leads will be permanent and I will also reconsider our membership in the organization," the president warned in a letter from four pages addressed to its CEO, the Ethiopian Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, which he made public through his Twitter account.
 

Among other allegations, the White House chief wrote that "repeatedly" the WHO has made claims about the coronavirus that were "inaccurate" or, at worst, "misleading" and directly criticized Tedros for not having declared the pandemic before January 30. The UN agency limited itself to acknowledging the letter from Donald Trump and through a spokesman in Geneva explained that they are "evaluating its content."
 

China has already responded in its own way, announcing another $ 2 billion to fight the coronavirus and accusing Washington of creating a smokescreen to avoid making mistakes. An argument shared by Trump's opponents, who have been accusing him for weeks of throwing balls outside and looking for an external enemy to not accept his responsibility in this crisis that has already left 90,000 dead in his country.
 

The president is six months away from having to revalidate his mandate at the polls, and he needs to convince not only his supporters, some of whom have taken their loyalty to the extreme of taking seriously the suggestion he made in late April of using bleach to "cleanse their lungs", but to the large mass of undecided people who need them to vote for him in next November's elections in order to continue for another four years in the White House.
 

Trump's ultimatum to the WHO came the same day that the New York magnate publicly admitted that he has been taking a pill of hydroxychloroquine, the antimalarial drug, combined with zinc for more than a week to prevent possible Covid infection. -19. All despite the fact that doctors and experts and even his own administration have repeatedly said that its effectiveness is not proven.
 

The United States Medicines Agency (FDA) already issued last April an alert in which it advised against its use because it is not demonstrating that hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine are "safe or effective" to treat Covid-19, while The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has also clarified that there is still no drug to prevent or treat coronavirus-related diseases.

That Nancy Pelosi took advantage almost immediately to attack Trump again was within the expected range, which is why it hardly surprised anyone that the Speaker of the House of Representatives said shortly afterwards before the CNN chamber that the "people of her old and morbidly obese "you shouldn't be taking a medication that has not been approved by doctors. "You are the President of the United States," he reminded him.

But the stupefaction also came from other areas close to the president, such as the conservative Fox News channel. One of its star presenters, Neil Cavuto, was alarmed by the statements the White House chief made about hydroxychloroquine. "If you are part of the po[CENSORED]tion at risk, and you are going to take this medicine as a preventive measure, you have to know something and that is that this can lead to death," he warned.