The incoming Trump administration plans to withdraw the United States from membership in the World Health Organization (WHO) on Jan. 20, 2025—the first day of President Trump’s second term. The move was originally reported by the Financial Times on Dec. 22, 2024.1 2 3 4 5
“I have it on good authority that he plans to withdraw, probably on Day One or very early in his administration,” said Lawrence Gostin, JD, professor of global health at Georgetown University in Washington, DC and director of the WHO Collaborating Center on National and Global Health Law. Professor Gostin is a long time advocate of expanding the authority of U.S. and global public health officials. With CDC funding, he was chief architect of the Model State Emergency Health Powers Act (MSEHPA) that, in 2001-2002, re-wrote many state public health laws to give state health officials expanded authority during a public health emergency declaration. 1 2 5 6
“There are lots of people who are going to be part of the inner circle of the administration who do not trust the WHO and want to symbolically show on day one that they are out,” said Ashish Jha, MD, the White House’s COVID-19 response coordinator during the first Trump term.1 3
The intention to exit the WHO is not a new idea. In April 2020, President Trump temporarily froze U.S. funding for the WHO while his administration reviewed U.S. membership in the organization. The U.S. is a top funder of the WHO, and the move followed accusations by Trump that the WHO failed to sound the alarm about the emergence of the SARS-CoV-2 virus early enough for preventive action to be taken by the U.S. and other countries, and that WHO officials conspired with China to cover up the potential threat the virus posed.7 8
Trump followed up with a letter to WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus threatening to permanently freeze U.S. funding for the WHO if he did not implement “substantive changes” to his organization in the next 30 days. On May 29, 2020, Trump said publicly that the WHO reforms had not taken place and so he would withdraw the U.S. from the organization.7 Shortly afterword, an official at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reportedly said:
None of us in the administration is under the assumption that this is temporary or will be reversed. This is a fundamental repudiation of the WHO and its failed mission.7
U.S. Notified United Nations of Its Withdrawal from WHO in 2020
On July 7, 2020, the U.S. government officially notified the United Nations of the United States’ withdrawal from the WHO. The notice was submitted to Secretary-General António Guterres and to Congress. The withdrawal was to take effect on July 6, 2021.9 10 11
On Sept. 3, 2020, the White House issued a press statement providing an update on the U.S. transition away from the WHO. In addition to reiterating its reason for withdrawing from the organization and the date that it would take effect, the White House stated:
[S]ince the President’s announcement, the U.S. government has been working to identify partners to assume the activities previously undertaken by WHO. Today, the United States is announcing the next steps with respect to our withdrawal from the WHO and the redirection of American resources. This redirection includes reprogramming the remaining balance of its planned Fiscal Year 2020 assessed WHO contributions to partially pay other UN assessments.
In addition, through July 2021, the United States will scale down its engagement with the WHO, to include recalling the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) detailees from WHO headquarters, regional offices, and country offices, and reassigning these experts. U.S. participation in WHO technical meetings and events will be determined on a case-by-case basis.12
On Jan. 20, 2021, just hours after being sworn in as the 46th president of the United States, President Biden signed an executive order reversing Trump’s withdrawal from the WHO. The withdrawal that was to have been completed on July 6 of that year was nullified.13 14 15
Now, the expectation is that President Trump fully intends to revive his decision to withdraw from the WHO and proceed as quickly to implement it as President Biden did to cancel it.
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Click here to view References:1 Christie O. Trump looks to withdraw from WHO on first day of his administration after calling the health body a puppet of Beijing for failing to hold China accountable for COVID. Daily Mail Dec. 24, 2024.
2 Fick M, Aboulenein A. Trump transition team plans immediate WHO withdrawal, expert says. Reuters Dec. 24, 2024.
3 Kuchler H, Barnes O. Donald Trump’s transition team seeks to pull US out of WHO ‘on day one’. Financial Times Dec. 22, 2024.
4 Mukherjee V. Trump team revives 2020 plan for US exit from WHO on day one of new term. Business Standard Dec. 24, 2024.
5 TOI World Desk. Trump’s team plans immediate WHO exit during second term, expert warns: ‘US would lose influence’. The Times of India Dec. 24, 2024.
6 National Vaccine Information Center. Model State Health Emergency Powers Act. December 2001.
7 Ehley B, Ollstein AM. Trump announces U.S. withdrawal from the World Health Organization. Politico May 29, 2020.
8 Fisher BL. WHO, Pharma, Gates & Government: Who’s Calling the Shots? National Vaccine Information Center Jan. 27, 2019.
9 BBC. Coronavirus: Trump moves to pull US out of World Health Organization. July 20, 2020.
10 Cohen Z, Hansler J, Atwood K, Salama V, Murray A. Trump administration begins formal withdrawal from World Health Organization. CNN July 8, 2020.
11 Smith A, Perlmutter-Gumbiner E. Trump administration gives formal notice of withdrawal from WHO. NBC News July 7, 2020.
12 Press Statement. Update on U.S. Withdrawal from the World Health Organization. U.S. Department of State Sept. 3, 2020.
13 Keaten J. Biden’s US revives support for WHO, reversing Trump retreat. Associated Press Jan. 21, 2021.
14 Morales C. Biden restores ties with the World Health Organization that were cut by Trump. The New York Times Jan. 20, 2021.
15 Xinhua. Biden reverses US withdrawal from WHO. Global Times Jan. 21, 2021.
22 Responses
Good move, and it’s none of the UN’s business. We should be extracting ourselves from the WHO, UN, NATO, OAS, and the rest of the international organizations of blood suckers. Is it a surprise that the U.S. is “a top funder” of WHO? I guess when you pay the most, you can be called “a top funder”. It’s the same story with the rest of our foreign entanglements. Also, I’ve noticed that these groups have rules and a timetable for exiting them. The EU does, and they used it on the UK during Brexit, and the Brits actually followed the rules. That’s not how it’s done. When you leave a group, you just leave, and, well, that’s all. It’s time for us to get out, and stop funding everybody.
I sure HOPE so! I remember when Trump announced withdrawal from the WHO and when Biden reversed it. I think this time around Trump will also withdraw the U.S. from the U.N. This is good.
Its a private corporate entity, with no representation by the people, no oversite, no accountability, no real transparency and a toxic totalitarian agenda controlled by a handful of individuals.
Why did we join in the first place?
Good!
Of course, it’s great when nations and states make moves to regain some of their lost autonomy. Getting away from the U.N. and W.H.O. is important but this move, along with many others, appear to be smokescreens hiding an aggressive global economic demolition and takeover by private equity. P.E. has been steadily growing in size and centralizing power to include a lot of ‘vertical of integration’, growth through P3 privatization, mergers, purchasing small “mom and pop” construction and HVAC companies, grabbing natural resources, and much more. In the fog of war, so to speak, this last leg of the takeover is being obscured even. They’ve even bought up many large suppliers of supplements such as Swanson, for example. At some point there could be few options on where to work or buy things without having to face a medical mandate or some other draconian set of edicts. Please stay wary and cautious.
These are really good points! Thank you for this perspective and information.
This is really good news; withdrawal from the WHO is a must.
Thank goodness. This is one big reason why so many of us held our noses and voted for Trump.
Absolutely correct. A couple shots of whiskey helped, too.
No need to hold your nose. Go ahead and breathe in the fresh air.
The WHO is publicly and openly making a play for their one-world gov’t, via backdoor agreements with China Joe to do an end-around the US Senate, for taking full authority over all US Citizens, elected officials, hospitals, doctors- everyone- in another “pandemic”. A “pandemic” which they get to define. A real pandemic is supposed to be a world-wide serious threat. The BIOWEAPON created at the University of North Carolina and shipped to Wuhan, China under Hussein Obama- then released by Faustian Fauci, Creepy Collins, and the TREASONOUS Deep State working with China, had an overall death rate of .01%.
The TROJAN HORSE BIOWEAPON SHOTS- the REAL threat- looks like it has murdered 1.5 MILLION Americans alone, not to mention the tens of millions of Americans now permanently disable from the modRNA, DNA-altering shot. Microscope evidence is also showing self-assembling nanobots in the shots and blood of those who have taken them.
1. US should withdraw from EVERYTHING with the demonic, nazi/commie/fascist NWO Globalist UN.
2. Push the UN off our shores.
We need to distance ourselves from the WHO, UN, and the WEF. They are all unelected, globalist, communist billionaire ran organizations that want to rule the world while abolishing all nation states, and the freedoms we have today.
Totally agree.
The WHO is 100% corrupt!!! Get us the H out of it. They killed my two boys with there lies. Fauci should be stoned! He is a murderer ordering people to take the rotten shots that were never meant to heal anything; instead they were made to kill people. What a piece of s—! China Joe is just as guilty as Fauci. How did us Americans ever get so out of touch! Camel Harris is equally as bad as China Joe and Fauci. I heard her let depopulation slip out in one of her tyrants in her blow gut speechs when running for president.
Yes, that’s why I voted for Trump since I wanted Robert Kennedy Jr to be in the White House to clean up those corruptions. Most people don’t realize how inaccurate mainstream news media is, and I really wish they would do the research!!! WHO prioritizes profits over people. So are the CDC, FDA and other agencies. That’s the plan of World Economic Forum. It’s much more than Covid itself evidently. What a long haul challenge we’ve been enduring.
Absolutely FANTASTIC plan! Hopefully, withdrawal from the UN and the Paris Climate Agreement as well. NATO needs reforming, too. These letter agencies are all about the New World Order …take everything from the poor and middle class and line the pockets of the globalists. They succeed in their nefarious plans, and we won’t have any rights at all, while they spend everything and throw our country that they want to destroy directly in the mouth of the cabals for dessert, whilst also ending the United States financially.
yes you have all said it. ya why do we have to let the UN know we’re leaving the WHO.
the one biggest thing we see is how totally totally corrupt it all is. how we lived thru china joe ( like that one ). but oh thankful we have Trump back. we can breath for 4 years now!!
Trump also needs to rewrite Obama’s EO 13747 that gave the UN/WHO authority over a infectious disease threat saying “No single nation can be prepared if other nations remain unprepared to counter biological threats; therefore, it is the policy of the United States to advance the Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA), which is a multi-faceted, multi-country initiative intended to accelerate partner countries’ measurable capabilities to achieve specific targets to prevent, detect, and respond to infectious disease threats (GHSA targets), whether naturally occurring, deliberate, or accidental.”
Trump should erase pretty much anything regarding the many foreign entanglements that our founding fathers warned us against. One way or another the U.S. always pays the most, and gets the short end of the stick, particularly when fake presidents like Obama and Biden openly promote foreign countries, and foreign invaders, above U.S. citizens. Clinton and the Bushies didn’t help either. With the exception of Israel, the U.S. has no foreign allies, only foreign beneficiaries.
Gostin also needs to go. The Model State Emergency Health Powers Acts came in right after 911 and the Patriot Act [written with no amendments by Joe Biden in 1992!] and were passed in SECRET in every state. Some of the wording even says that the citizens were not be told about the MSEHPA wording or the fact that it had become law. The people never had a say in this and it opened the way for the CDC [unelected and owned by big pharma] to mandate not only experimental shots & treatments but curtail our Constitutional rights: speech, guns,right to travel,gather, seizing of assets including business,homes,food with no compensation and even quartering soldiers in your home. Look it up. I have NEVER met anybody that has read or even heard of their state’s MSEHPA; but I did and was shocked.
The WHO is a terrorist organization! Thank God for President Trump getting us out of that bogus organization, WHO. Their leader is a communist terrorist! Biden doesn’t have the brains to make good decisions. Of course, we should all know by now that Obomanation has been calling all the shots, and his goal has always been to bring this country down to a third world status! That’s why Obamanation has opened up all our borders to let millions in to bankrupt this country, and allow his ji-had buddies in to terrorize this country! Obamanation is a traitor, and is not even a citizen. He was born in Kenya!!!
This is definitely at least one bright spot in this new year of so many planned uncertainties and craziness!!