Donald Trump announced he is halting funding to the World Health Organization.

While a review is conducted to cover the WHO’s “role in severely mismanaging and covering up the spread of coronavirus,” President Donald Trump said he will be halting funding to the World Health Organization in the middle of the worst global pandemic in decades.

While angrily defending his own handling of the outbreak in the United States, has sought to assign blame elsewhere, including the media. His decision to withdraw funding from the WHO, CNN reports, follows a pattern of skepticism of world organizations that began well before the coronavirus pandemic. Trump has questioned US funding to the United Nations, withdrawn from global climate agreements and lambasted the World Trade Organization — claiming all were ripping off the United States.

Trump said Tuesday if the WHO had acted appropriately, he could have instituted a travel ban on people coming from China sooner. On January 24, Trump tweeted: “China has been working very hard to contain the Coronavirus. The United States greatly appreciates their efforts and transparency. It will all work out well. In particular, on behalf of the American People, I want to thank President Xi!”
Billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates says Trump’s decision to halt funding for WHO ‘as dangerous as it sounds.