Irish Examiner View: No one is thanking America

Blame is Trump’s favourite game and this is another attempt to deflect from his gross ineptitude and, in particular, his handling of the coronavirus pandemic.

Trump’s petty description of the crisis as “the Chinese virus” is another blame-shifting tactic bound to fail.

The decision by US President Donald Trump to withdraw US funding to the World Health Organisation is a crime against humanity that has shocked right-thinking people around the world.

In an unusually angry tweet, Tánaiste Simon Coveney describes it as “indefensible” and shocking in the midst of a global pandemic.