Donald Trump Bashes Media Coverage Of Coronavirus, Agrees With OAN Reporter That News Outlets “Siding With China”
President Donald Trump’s press briefing had a flurry of newsworthy statements, updates and a few startling moments.
Days after saying that a number of the media “really has been actually truthful” in its protection of the coronavirus disaster, on Thursday he was again to calling various information shops “dishonest.”
Close to the top of the briefing, a reporter for One America Information Community, the right-wing outlet, requested him, “Do you think about the time period Chinese language meals racist, as a result of it’s meals that originated in China or has Chinese language origin?”
“No, I don’t suppose it’s racist,” Trump responded.
The OAN reporter continued, “On that word, the foremost left-wing information media, even on this room, have teamed up with Chinese language communist celebration narratives, and so they declare you might be racist for making these claims concerning the Chinese language virus. Is it alarming that main media gamers, simply to oppose you, are persistently siding with overseas state propaganda, Islamic radicals and Latin gangs and cartels, and so they work proper right here within the White Home with direct entry to you and your workforce?”
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Trump then went on an prolonged rant of media protection of his administration’s response to the disaster. “It’s completely pretend,” he mentioned, earlier than singling out The Wall Avenue Journal. He later mentioned that the media was “siding with China. They’re siding with many others. China is the least of it. If we had an trustworthy media on this nation, our nation could be a fair better place.”
Different White Home correspondents chided the reporter for basically goading Trump.
Yamiche Alcindor, White Home correspondent for PBS Newshour, wrote on Twitter, “It’s past disturbing that One America Information Community is asking lay up inquiries to Pres Trump packed w/ false info. Transferring on, when will everybody who wants a coronavirus take a look at have the ability to get a take a look at within the U.S.? Trump and VP Pence by no means answered that key query.”
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“„[It’s past disturbing that One America Information Community is asking lay up inquiries to Pres Trump packed w/ false info.Transferring on, when will everybody who wants a coronavirus take a look at have the ability to get a take a look at within the U.S.? Trump and VP Pence by no means answered that key query.](https://deadline.com/2020/03/minions-the-rise-of-gru-global-release-date-change-coronavirus-illumination-universal-1202887622/)— Yamiche Alcindor (@Yamiche) March 19, 2020