Trump Discusses Hantavirus and Defends WHO Withdrawal

What do you think about the handling of the Hantavirus by the U.S.?

I think it's fine.

Do you regret withdrawing from the WHO given that?

No, I'm glad.

So we were paying the World Health Organization $500 million a year.

Look, it's a lot of money, but in the overall scope it's not that much, but it's a lot of money.

And we weren't being treated well.

And they were making the wrong diagnoses.

I was the one that said it came from Wuhan.

They didn't say that.

They refused to say that because they were totally owned by China.

So I was saying it came from Wuhan.

They didn't want to say that.

Now it's turned out, I think it's been conclusive that it came from Wuhan.

But I said that on the first day because I saw satellite pictures with body bags all over Wuhan.

Literally all over Wuhan.

So I said that.

They lied to me or they didn't know.

So we were paying for, let's say, 350 million people.

We were paying $500 million a year to the World Health Organization.

That's a lot of money.

What the hell are they going to do with that kind of money?

And China was paying $39 million a year for 1.4 billion people.

So I said, you know, you got your story wrong because we should be paying about $10 million, not $500 million.

And they were willing to negotiate, but it was so popular when I pulled out.

They gave us all wrong information.

On COVID, they were totally wrong.

And I looked today and I saw the same doctor that was there.

He's a good politician.

I don't know how the hell he kept his job, but he was there telling us about this.

Now, the one thing with this one is that it's much harder to catch.

And we've had it for a long time.

It's been around for a long time.

People are very familiar with it.

So, you know, I hope it's fine.

All I can do is everything that a president can do, which is somewhat which is actually somewhat limited.

But but it seems like it is not easy to spread.

In fact, it's in certain ways very hard to spread.

It's been we've we've lived with it for years, many years.

And we think we're in very good shape.

We're very careful.

And Nebraska has done a fantastic job.

They have a place there that those doctors are unbelievable.

The job they've done.