“They were wrong about a lot of things,” President Donald Trump said about the World Health Organization (WHO). During a White House press briefing, Trump announced on Tuesday that he plans to freeze funds for WHO, a move that was meant to make the organization accountable for allowing Communist China to influence its decisions during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

Worldwide, more than 1.4 million people were affected by the virus, and 80,000 more died as a result. Trump believed that these numbers would have been prevented if WHO heeded Taiwan’s early warnings about the impending threat of the coronavirus. The president said that the organization could have called warning threats about the virus months earlier because, as the World Health Organization, they should have known, and he believes they probably already knew.

As reported by The Patriot Hill, the health organization had already received warnings from Taiwan since December. However, instead of investigating the matter, WHO chose to ignore the red flags, and even went on to question the country’s sovereignty, by constantly referring to it as “Taiwan, China.” According to Taiwanese officials, the organization had also failed to disclose crucial health information about the COVID-19 virus, as they do with other countries.

To make matters worse, WHO had also criticized Trump’s decision to place a travel ban on China, stating that such restrictions will only incite fear and panic, and provide “little public health benefit.” In his statement, Trump commented that “they seem to be very China-centric.” He also hinted that the organization has sided with China and that its decision was up to “no good.”

During the briefing, Trump also announced that he plans to freeze funds for the health organization, despite the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. The president believed that the WHO’s actions were all in favor of China, including instructing countries to have more lax border and travel restrictions. However, the president refused to follow the organization’s guidelines and was relieved to do so, saying that the travel ban “was a good move.”

Being one of the “primary funders” of the organization, Trump aired his increasing concern over the politicization of WHO and promised to investigate the matters on-hand. According to the Kaiser Foundation, the country was able to contribute a whopping $513 million for WHO in 2017, a huge difference from the $341 million in 2016.

Due to the increasing pressure, WHO’s Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, was called to resign for the alleged cover-up. However, Ghebreyesus denied the allegations, claiming that they were committed to resolving the pandemic.

Just last week, White House Coronavirus Task Force, Dr. Deborah Birx, claimed that based on the initial reports from China, US medical experts were unable to foresee that the virus could turn into a global pandemic. The doctor explained that in a province of 80 million people, 50,000 COVID-19 cases were relatively small, which led experts to conclude that it would be more like a SARS virus rather than a deadly pandemic.

Trump also went on to give an update about the coronavirus hotspots and praise the state governors for their efforts to resolve and mitigate the spread of the virus. The president put aside his own political differences to extend his gratitude to New York Governor, Andrew Cuomo, and New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy for doing a “great job” in handling the crisis. He also mentioned Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards in Louisiana and Gavin Newsom in California.