Posted on 03/20/2020 6:14:40 AM PDT by Carriage Hill
A photo of Donald Trump's notes from his Thursday press briefing shows his script had been amended so the term 'corona virus' read 'Chinese virus' - as the president doubled down on his use of the term which critics have branded racist.
During the speech, Trump repeated his argument that China is to blame for the original spread of the virus, which has claimed thousands of lives around the world.
But he has faced criticism for calling it a 'Chinese virus', as the deadly disease is now a global pandemic.
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Saying Chinese food is racist too?
This is just silly.
The virus originated in China.
China has not been cooperative with the efforts to stop this.
China is a country, not a race.
Trump is not calling this the Asian virus.
Where was this camera during the presser? Does anyone recall seeing a camera? Probably not photoshopped just a total hoax.
for leftard loons who have snowflake hysteria, all dat be raysis
He could substitute a lot of words for me.
Who could have taken a photo at that angle? It is either photo-shopped or it was taken by someone behind the podium.
I have no problem with the idea behind the picture but if it wasn’t Photo-shopped, someone in the White-house needs to be gone immediately.
Done on purpose and made visible as possible no doubt.
He is trolling them again.
good
The president should tell them he believes in giving credit where credit is due. If the world then harbors negative feelings about the communist Chinese government for their horrid behavior, so be it.
Either way, his use of either word makes no difference.
GO TRUMP!
I sure hope he doesn’t say “Let’s send out for some Chinese food” loud enough for the scum in the “media” to hear him say it.
Haha true. Or he should call it the Finland virus and they can ask him why he’s calling it that when it originated in China. Or he should pick any random country and call it a different name every time....they’d eventually catch on.
I guess I’m going to go play Corona Checkers.
Impeach him for incorrect word usage!!
Why the hell is a Washington comPost photographer taking photos of his notes for? Pull the ba$tard's credentials and bar them from ever covering another event. Same with any of the other lying POS's who are pushing an "offended" narrative after each of their networks said the same thing. Let them go back to entry-level "reporter" status covering local traffic or the weather.
How did that scumbag get aside and behind Trump to take that pic?
Exactly.
Chinese is a nationality, not a race. Personally, I would prefer that he called it the Wuhan virus, because that is more specific to the point of origin for this virus, but the real racists here are the ones who complain that it is racist to criticize the Chinese, when Chinese is a nationality, not a race.
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