美国总统唐纳德·特朗普(Donald Trump)周二宣布，美国政府将暂停对世界卫生组织(World Health Organization)的资助，同时他的政府将进行一项审查，以确定该组织是否“掩盖”了COVID-19的最初传播。
1月24日，特朗普称赞中国习近平主席政府在遏制非典方面的“努力和透明度”，并声称由于Xi的努力，“一切都会好的”。他说，美国将暂停对该组织的资助，因为官员们反对他在1月底对来自中国的外国公民实施的部分旅行禁令，还因为世卫组织官员“为中国政府的行动辩护，甚至称赞中国的所谓透明度。”
自上任以来，特朗普经常抨击国际多边组织，在这些组织中，美国受到与其他大国一样的待遇，尤其是中国。在世界卫生组织的案例中，特朗普声称美国“没有得到公平对待”，因为该组织“非常以中国为中心”，并引用了中国官员的话。去年12月，中国官员表示，没有证据表明非典-CoV-2可以在人与人之间传播。
特朗普在白宫冠状病毒特别工作组的每日简报中表示:“世界依赖世卫组织与各国合作，确保及时分享关于国际健康威胁的准确信息。”。他补充说，如果该组织没有“独立地说出正在发生的事情的真相”，它“必须承担责任”
2020年4月14日，在DC首都华盛顿的白宫玫瑰园，美国总统唐纳德·特朗普在关于新型冠状病毒的每日简报上发表讲话。
尽管美国今年迄今已向世卫组织捐赠了约5800万美元，但特朗普表示，该组织对COVID-19的处理引发了对“美国的慷慨是否得到了最佳利用”的“深切担忧”，并指责其未能“及时、透明地充分获得审查和分享信息”。"
特朗普表示，世卫组织反对使用旅行限制来对抗COVID-19——许多流行病学家都持有这一观点——这是该组织领导层做出的“最危险、最昂贵的决定之一”。
当被问及他之前赞扬中国和Xi的言论时，特朗普批评了世界卫生组织关于中国的言论，他说他一直“尊重”中国，因为他希望与中国达成贸易协议。接着，他重复了一个经常出现的错误说法，即中国正在支付“数十亿美元”的关税，尽管关税是美国公司和消费者支付的税款。
就此事进一步追问，他否认曾称赞Xi或中国的透明度，并声称自己是“一个国家的唯一领导人”，对中国“严格关闭了我们的边境”，尽管事实上他的旅行限制有11个单独的豁免纽约时报自实施制裁以来，已经允许4万多人从中国入境。
TRUMP HALTS U.S. FUNDING FOR WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION AS U.S. PLANS REVIEW INTO 'MISMANAGEMENT' OF CORONAVIRUS
President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced that the U.S. government would suspend funding for the World Health Organization while his administration conducts a review to determine whether the organization "covered up" the initial spread of COVID-19.
Trump, who on January 24 praised Chinese President Xi Jinping for his government's "efforts and transparency" in containing SARS-CoV-2 and claimed that "it will all work out well" because of Xi's efforts, said the U.S. would be suspending funding to the organization because officials opposed the partial travel ban he imposed on foreign nationals coming from China in late January, and because WHO officials "defended the actions of the Chinese government even praising China for its so called transparency."
Since taking office, Trump has regularly railed against international, multilateral organizations in which the United States is treated the same as other large countries, particularly China. In the case of the WHO, Trump claimed that the U.S. was "not treated fairly" because the group is "very China-centric" and took the word of Chinese officials who, in December, said there was no evidence that SARS-CoV-2 could be transmitted between people.
"The world depends on the WHO to work with countries to ensure that accurate information about international health threats is shared in a timely manner," Trump said during the White House Coronavirus Task Force's daily briefing. He added that the organization "must be held accountable" if it did not "independently tell the truth about what is happening."
US President Donald Trump speaks during the daily briefing on the novel coronavirus, which causes COVID-19, in the Rose Garden of the White House on April 14, 2020, in Washington, DC.
While the U.S. has given the WHO approximately $58 million so far this year, Trump said the group's handling of COVID-19 has raised "deep concerns" over "whether America's generosity has been put to the best use possible, and accused it of failing to "adequately obtain vet and share information in a timely and transparent fashion."
Trump said the WHO's opposition to the use of travel restrictions to fight COVID-19—a view shared by many epidemiologists—"one of the most dangerous and costly decisions" the group's leadership has made.
When confronted on his previous statements praising China and Mr. Xi for the same things he criticized the WHO for saying about China, Trump said he had been "respectful" because of his desire to complete a trade deal with China. He then repeated a frequently-made false claim that China is paying "billions of dollars" in tariffs, despite the fact that tariffs are taxes paid by American companies and consumers.
Pressed further on the matter, he denied having praised Xi or China for being transparent and claimed to have been "the only leader of a country" to have "closed our borders tightly against China," despite the fact that his travel restrictions had 11 separate exemptions and according to The New York Times, have permitted over 40,000 people to enter the country from China since they were imposed.
