The United States will leave the World Health Organization, President Donald Trump said on Monday, saying the global health agency had mishandled the COVID-19 pandemic and other international health crises.

President Donald Trump used one of the executive actions that he issued on his first day back in the White House to begin the process of withdrawing the U.S. from the World Health Organization for the second time in less than five years.

One of President Trump’s first executive orders removes the U.S. from the global health organization, which experts say is “cataclysmic.”

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"It will exacerbate global health inequalities and put at risk advances made over decades," say experts. Among the measures that Donald Trump has taken right after assuming the presidency of the United States is the intention to make his country no longer a member of the World Health Organization (WHO).

Good riddance to the World Health Organization — more aptly called the Woke Health Oligarchy. On his first day, President Trump withdrew the United States from WHO, a necessary step in putting the health of Americans first.

Donald Trump’s plan to withdraw the United States from the World Health Organization (WHO) has been met with dismay in the public health field. Some have called one of the US president’s first executive orders “a grave error” and “absolutely bad news”.