Trump Gets Into An Arugment With Chinese Born Reporter, Ends Press Brief Abruptly

Social media was quick to pick up this news and support Jiang, with hashtag #StandWithWeijiaJiang started trending on Twitter.

US President Donald Trump. PIC/AFP.

Washington: US President Donald Trump, who is not so popular with media because of his scathing remarks, has once again got into a spat with reporter Weijia Jiang of CBS News during a press briefing related to Covid-19 which got over after the spat. According to a news agency report, the CBS reporter Weijia Jiang questioned the US President about why he keeps harping on the US doing better than other countries when it came to testing for the virus. The reporter retorted “Why does that matter? Why is this a global competition when, every day, Americans are still losing their lives?” On this, the President said, “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?” According to the Twitter bio, the journalist is a “Chinese born West Virginian”.

She insisted on asking the President why was it specifically said to her, hinting if it was because of her race. "I’m saying it to anybody who would ask a nasty question like that,” Trump replied. [tw] The President then tried moving on to another reporter while Jiang continued to prompt him for the response. After speaking to the next reporter who again insisted on answering Jiang, Trump just called off the conference and walked back into the White House. Social media was quick to pick up this news and support Jiang, with the hashtag #StandWithWeijiaJiang started trending on Twitter. In fact Reporter and CNN political analyst April Ryan, who has also faced a similar situation, tweeted: “Welcome to the club! This is sickening! It is his habit!”

It is not the first time that Trump has behaved unusual but he has never hidden his dislike for the news media during coronavirus briefing. More than 80,000 people have died in the US from the Covid-19 outbreak, out of more than 1.3 million cases, as on Monday according to Johns Hopkins University, by far the highest death toll of any country.