As much as many people were happy with the news that President Donald Trump signed an executive order beginning the process of the country leaving the World Health Organization, that move may have been a gambit to a better deal for this nation.
During his Las Vegas rally over the weekend, Donald Trump said on Saturday he may consider rejoining the organization.
“Maybe we would consider doing it again, I don’t know. Maybe we would. They would have to clean it up,” Trump said at a rally in Las Vegas.The U.S. is scheduled to leave the WHO on Jan. 22, 2026. Trump announced the move on Monday after he was sworn in for a second term in the White House.The U.S. is by far the biggest financial backer of the WHO, contributing around 18% of its overall funding. The WHO’s most recent two-year budget, for 2024-2025, was $6.8 billion.Trump told the crowd in Las Vegas he was unhappy that the U.S. paid more into the WHO than China, which has a much bigger population.
Many Americans are unhappy being the cash cow for a group of globalists who try to force their liberty-crushing bureaucracies on this nation. Many think that the WHO should rethink both its mission and budget.
Sometimes a break-up is necessary to improve a relationship.
According to Trump, the US has been getting a bad deal for quite some time, and he is applying his new relationship rules to several other organizations.
“We paid $500 million a year and China paid $39 million a year despite a much larger population. Think of that. China’s paying $39 million to have 1.4 billion people, we pay $500 million we have – no one knows what the hell we have, does anyone know? We have so many people pouring in we have no idea,” Trump told rally goers on Saturday.”They offered me at $39 million, they said ‘We’ll let you back in for $39 million,’ they’re going to reduce it from [$500 million] to [$39 million], and I turned them down, because it became so popular I didn’t know if it would be well received even at [$39 million], but maybe we would consider doing it again, I don’t know, they have to clean it up a bit.”…The president’s complaints about the U.S. paying too much to the WHO mirror his complaints about U.S. participation in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), as well. During the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, last week, Trump said he was asking all NATO nations to contribute 5% of their gross domestic products to NATO defense spending.
Stay tuned, as with Trump at the wheel, the twists and turns of deal-making can be hard to predict.
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