“The (WHO) told us, when we put on our travel ban — a very strong travel ban — there was no need to do it. ‘Don’t do it.’ They actually fought us.”
What PolitiFact found
WHO did not recommend travel bans, but Trump magnifies the extent of the disagreement. We found no record of WHO objecting to the American policy specifically.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Donald Trump (President of the United States) made this claim around 14 April 2020. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 16 April 2020, 2 days later. Its rating was “No fight, just policy”.
Donald Trump has 1,168 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 663 of them false or fake, 375 misleading or mixed and 13 true.
Where the claim appeared
- whitehouse.govhttps://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-press-briefing/
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