Freeman Daily: Well into his second week in office, President Donald Trump continues to score win after win after win … while simultaneously calling bluffs as he sees them.
First, Trump called the bluff of Colombia President Gustavo Petro with regards to migrant flights, threatening immense tariffs if Petro did not comply.
Petro folded in under three hours.
Secondly, Trump has now called the bluff of critics who said he would either not withdraw from the World Health Organization (WHO), or he would withdraw in a spectacularly slow fashion.
Indeed, one of Trump’s more controversial executive orders – “Withdrawing the United States from the World Health Organization” – made it abundantly clear that Trump would be wasting exactly zero time in removing the United States from a deeply political, ultra-globalist organization.
“The United States noticed its withdrawal from the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2020 due to the organization’s mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic that arose out of Wuhan, China, and other global health crises, its failure to adopt urgently needed reforms, and its inability to demonstrate independence from the inappropriate political influence of WHO member states,” the order declared.
About time.
Who could forget China blocking the WHO from conducting its own investigation … which is especially problematic when considering how many intelligence agencies have grudgingly admitted that the virus did, in all likelihood, emerge from a lab.
The executive order may be reviewed in its entirety here.
And while critics did their typical naysaying, Trump and his team, as usual, were quite busy behind the scenes.
And that business resulted in action, with the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) formally ordered to sever all ties with the WHO.
According to a report from CBS News, “multiple federal health officials” were reportedly ordered “to cut off all communications” with the WHO, starting immediately.
Naturally, various critics were upset, such as James LeDuc, who currently works as an adjunct professor at the University of Texas Medical Branch.
“As has been repeated many times, infectious diseases know no boundaries and in today’s world of rapid travel, an outbreak anywhere is a threat everywhere,” LeDuc declared.
Yes, it is. Along with political wrangling, threats, and other nonsense that the United States wants no part of until the WHO gets its act together.
After all, how absurd is it that China is widely “credited” with creating COVID in a lab, thereby sickening the planet … only to continue paying a fraction into the WHO that the United States pays?
While simultaneously blocking the WHO from investigating the real origins of the virus, no less.
Naturally, the aforementioned executive order also points out the gross disparity between what the United States pays and what China pays.
“In addition, the WHO continues to demand unfairly onerous payments from the United States, far out of proportion with other countries’ assessed payments. China, with a population of 1.4 billion, has 300 percent of the population of the United States, yet contributes nearly 90 percent less to the WHO,” the executive order added.
Absurd, no matter which way someone wants to analyze the facts of the WHO’s prejudice in favor of other nations.
That said, apparently the WHO, much like the Colombian president, is shuddering at the prospect of losing American greenbacks, as strongly implied by Trump.
According to Trump, the WHO had apparently offered to reduce the required funding commitment from the United States down to approximately amount currently given by China.
“Maybe we would consider doing it again. I don’t know. Maybe we would. They have to clean it up a little bit,” Trump mused.
Perhaps.
In the meantime, communications with the WHO are highly likely to remain cut until it gets its act together.
Author: Jane Jones
