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CNN’s Brian Stelter chided President Trump for a “racist” response he gave a Chinese-American reporter during a White House press conference.
CBS reporter Weijia Jiang asked Trump in the Rose Garden on Monday why he cares if the United States has the largest testing capacity in the world.
“Why is this a global competition to you if every day Americans are still losing their lives?” Jiang, who was born in China and raised in West Virginia after immigrating to the U.S., wondered.
“Well, they’re losing their lives everywhere in the world. And maybe that’s a question you should ask China. Don’t ask me. Ask China that question, OK? When you ask them that question, you may get a very unusual answer,” Trump responded.
Stelter reacted to the moment during a CNN segment following the briefing, saying the president espoused racist sentiments.
“I think what we saw in that exchange with Weijia Jiang is something that has racial overtones. It is racist to look at an Asian-American White House correspondent and say, ‘Ask China.’ This isn’t happening in a vacuum. This is part of a pattern of behavior from the president that goes back many years,” the network’s chief media correspondent said before accusing Trump of having a particular prejudice for minority reporters.
“He doesn’t have the benefit of the doubt that someone might have if for the first time ever in their life they made a comment like that to a reporter,” Stelter added.
“I think what we saw in that exchange with Weijia Jiang is something that has racial overtones. It is racist to look at an Asian-American White House correspondent and say, ‘Ask China.’
Huh? Then it’s racist for any Chinese person to ask an American about America.
The vibe I get from Humpty Dumpty Stetler, I bet his penis looks like a button.
President Trump tells a reporter to essentially do her job, and go ask China about their Coronavirus testing instead of chiding him about it, and she gets selectively outraged by it.
-PJ
I thought Trump had learned his lesson about those press conferences when he stopped holding them a few weeks ago. Who is advising him on this? He needs to play offense with his great MAGA issues. When he does, the Democrats will lose interest in the virus.
I thought Trump had learned his lesson about those press conferences when he stopped holding them a few weeks ago. Who is advising him on this? He needs to play offense with his great MAGA issues. When he does, the Democrats will lose interest in the virus.
“CBS reporter Weijia Jiang”
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