Trump has long been critical of how the Geneva-based institution handled the Covid-19 pandemic.

Summary

Donald Trump signed an executive order to withdraw the US from the World Health Organization (WHO) on his first day back in office.

This marks the second time Trump has initiated this process, citing the WHO’s “mishandling of the Covid-19 pandemic,” failure to reform, political influence, and “unfairly onerous payments” by the US.

Public health experts warn the move could harm global disease control efforts and US leadership in health innovation.

Under Biden, the US was the WHO’s largest funder, contributing nearly 20% of its $6.8 billion budget in 2023.

  • the_crotch@sh.itjust.works
    41·
    20 hours ago

    I watched it live. Biden was actively sunsetting in front of us. If he was my grandpa I would have been calling nursing homes that afternoon.

    • NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip
      6·
      19 hours ago

      And trump and vance said shit as insane as “concept of a plan”.

      The key is that (social) media keyed in on biden spending the first half of his debate passing out from chugging nyquil and just laughed at the “joys” of turmp saying stupid shit.

      Social media is what won this. It is comparable to JFK vs Nixon back in the day where people who listened like Nixon and people who watched loved JFK. Except it is instead that people mostly just waited for someone else to tell them how to feel period.

        • NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip
          6·
          19 hours ago

          Except it was only a disaster for one candidate.

          Which is the point. trump can be literally dismantling the country from day one and people STILL talk about biden because twitter and their favorite compromised twitch streamers do.

          THAT is the problem. In a rational world, we would have had the “turd and a douche sandwich” stupidity with how horrible both candidates were. Instead? BIDEN OLD!!! FUCK YOU BIDEN!!!

          And if you don’t think you are susceptible to being manipulated? Look in a damned mirror and do some soul searching because we all are.

          • the_crotch@sh.itjust.works
            2·
            14 hours ago

            Trump wasn’t rambling on more than usual. He seemed reasonably alert. Biden was sleepwalking, talking nonsense and repeating “and by the way” a thousand times. If we’re talking only about the debate, trump put on a much better performance and won by a wide margin. I don’t need social media to tell me that, I saw it with my own eyes