The shit has hit the fan and the lame-stream media is still tryin’ to “nail” Trump!
President Donald Trump has gone out of his way to refer to the coronavirus as the “Chinese virus” in recent days, a terminology shift that has prompted accusations of racism.
On Thursday, a Washington Post reporter tweeted an image of the president’s notes prior to a White House presser, revealing that someone scratched out the “corona” in “coronavirus” and wrote in “Chinese.”
The tweet went viral, and the “Chinese virus” debate continued to dominate media discourse for yet another day. John Yang, the executive director of Asian Americans Advancing Justice, told NBC News that the “use of this term by him and others even in the last couple of weeks have led to a noticeable incline in hate incidents that we are seeing.”
The president has argued it is necessary to refer to COVID-19 as the “Chinese virus” or the “Wuhan virus” since the Chinese Communist Party is ramping up its efforts to blame the United States for the virus. Chinese officials have falsely claimed members of the United States Army introduced the virus to Wuhan in October.
“China tried to say at one point — maybe they stopped — that it was caused by American soldiers……..That can’t happen. That is not going to happen, as long as I am President. It comes from China.”
Donald Trump
Others, including Graeme Wood of The Atlantic, argue that the whole debate is a waste of time as Trump is using the term to distract the American media from the administration’s failures responding to the pandemic.
Who the HELL is Andrew Yang?…..
Close-up image of Trump’s notes shows he crossed out ‘corona’ for ‘Chinese’
Calamity Jane