Trump pulls out for the second time:

The first time the US withdrew from the Paris Agreement: The Virgin

The US had formally withdrawn from the Paris Agreement before; the US was the first nation in the world to do so. President Donald Trump was determined to leave in June 2017, but UN regulations had delayed it. In the three years before 2020, US negotiators had been present, but the administration had ultimately used these events at UN climate conferences to promote fossil fuels.

Andrew Light, who was a former senior climate change official in the administration of Obama had said, “Being out formally obviously hurts the US reputation.”

“This will be the second time that the United States has been the primary force behind negotiating a new climate deal - with the Kyoto Protocol we never ratified it, in the case of the Paris Agreement, we left it."

"So, I think it's obviously a problem."

In contrast, the decision to leave the Paris agreement then, was met with responses such as “I’m not sure what Paris actually accomplishes”, said Katie Tubb, who had been a senior policy analyst at the Heritage Foundation.

"In terms of getting to the end of the century, if the goal is to reduce global temperatures, it just can't be done on the backs of the industrialised world."

"No matter what you think about global warming, and the nature of it, the pace of it, you have to take these growing economies seriously, and help them and I just didn't see Paris getting to that end, in any efficient or constructive manner."

The US withdraws from the Paris Agreement, for the second time: The Ex-pert.

Trump has ordered a withdrawal from the Paris Agreement for the second time. Through this withdrawal, the US will be joining Iran, Libya, and Yemen as the only nations that are not party to this agreement. With barely anytime to waste (but with energy to waste), President Trump signed a grave collection of executive orders to fuel his new administrative powers to promote fossil fuels and to take away support for renewable energy, indicating that the US will not contribute to the fight against climate change.

“We’re going to drill, baby, drill and do all of the things that we wanted to,” Donald Trump said before signing the orders. President Trump declared a national emergency as well, “despite the fact that the United States is currently producing more oil and natural gas than any other country”, stated by The New York Times.

“We have no gas lines, we have no widespread electricity blackouts”, said Michael Gerrard, director of the Sabin Centre for Climate Change Law at Columbia University. He referred to the emergency order as, “mostly performative”.

Trump to exit WHO?

President Donald Trump said that the US will be withdrawing from the World Health Organisation, additionally saying that the agency had failed to handle the COVID-19 Pandemic as well as other global health crises. The US is the WHO’s biggest donor, it contributes to almost 18% of its funding. And from 2024-2025, its funding was up to 22%.

Trump said the WHO had failed to act independently from the "inappropriate political influence of WHO member states" and required "unfairly onerous payments" from the U.S. that were disproportionate to the sums provided by other, larger countries, such as China- Reuters.

"World Health ripped us off, everybody rips off the United States. It's not going to happen anymore," Trump said during the signing of an executive order on the withdrawal.

When China was asked about Trump’s executive decision to withdraw from the WHO, their foreign ministry spoke to a press briefing that the role of the WHO in “global health governance should only be strengthened not weakened.

“Trump's withdrawal from the WHO is not unexpected. He took steps to quit the body in 2020, during his first term as president, accusing the WHO of aiding China's efforts to "mislead the world" about the origins of COVID” - Reuters.

This is the second time Trump has ordered the withdrawal of the US from the WHO.

Reasons remain as stated above, yet during the earlier days of the pandemic, Trump and other officials and figures downplayed the virus and the menacing situation that was arising from it.

Timeline of Trump’s responses;

January 22nd, 2020 “We have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China. It’s going to be just fine.”

January 24th, 2020 “China has been working very hard to contain the Coronavirus. The United States greatly appreciates their efforts and transparency. It will all work out well. In particular, on behalf of the American People, I want to thank President Xi!”

February 2nd, 2020 “We pretty much shut it down coming in from China.”

February 26th, 2020 "This is a flu. This is like a flu."

March 2nd, 2020 “You take a solid flu vaccine; you don't think that could have an impact, or much of an impact, on corona?” [Trump to health officials who answered "No."]

March 31st, “...it’s not the flu. It’s vicious.”

April 6th “LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL!”

U.S Death Toll passes 10,000

April 7th "You are not going to die from this pill...I really think it's a great thing to try." [Trump promoting Hydroxychloroquine, not FDA approved to treat coronavirus]

April 9th 2020 “I couldn’t have done it any better.” [When asked if his coronavirus response could have been better]

U.S Death Toll passes 20,000

May 9th, 2020 “This is going to go away without a vaccine.”

U.S Death Toll passes 80,000

May 29th, 2020 “We will be today terminating our relationship with the World Health Organization.”

US Death Toll passes 110,000 (June 6th 2020)

New York Times report reveals that in December 2020 that Trump yelled, “You’re killing me! This whole thing is! We’ve got all the damn cases...I want to do what Mexico does. They don’t give you a test till you get to the emergency room and you’re vomiting,” at Jared Kushner during an August 19, 2020 meeting.

September 10th 2020, “This is nobody's fault but China.”

September 14th, 2020, “Trump was asked if he is afraid of Coronavirus risk at his rallies: “I’m on a stage, it’s very far away, so I’m not at all concerned.”

U.S Death Toll passes 200,000

Nine million Americans have now been infected by the coronavirus (October 30th, 2020)

January 20th, 2021

Trump's term in office saw over 25 million confirmed coronavirus cases in the United States, over 400,000 of which resulted in death.

And President-elect Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris are sworn into office.

An article published in 2020 by The New York Times stated, “The president said he would halt funding for the organization because it caused “so much death” in the way it “pushed Chinese misinformation.”

“In effect, Mr. Trump was accusing the world’s leading health organization of making all of the mistakes that he has made since the virus first emerged in China and then spread rapidly.”

Instead of working on improving the WHO, Trump seeks to use the same argument from 2020, to follow through on his stubborn decision to withdraw. Trump is effectively promulgating his executive orders by pulling out of the Paris Agreement as well as the WHO. The same arguments and the same reasons that have been argued and contested in 2020 are what people are privy to once again. And yet, Trump has been re-elected.

The memory of a goldfish, citizens of the US has proven as such, that they are indeed goldfish. Are they yet to read the directive signed by Donald Trump? ‘PUTTING PEOPLE OVER FISH’? They have clearly forgotten that they are the fish.   

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