White House Official Calls Coronavirus "Kung Flu" In Conversation with Asian-American Reporter
White House Official Calls Coronavirus “Kung Flu” In Conversation with Asian-American Reporter
BY ALAN RYLAND at Politicususa
https://www.politicususa.com/2020/03/17/white-house-official-calls-coronavirus-kung-flu-in-conversation-with-asian-american-reporter.html
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A White House official reportedly used the racist term “Kung flu” while speaking to CBS News correspondent Weijia Jiang, who was born in China and grew up in West Virginia. The official has not been identified.
“Makes me wonder what they’re calling it behind my back,” Jiang wrote on Twitter.
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This morning a White House official referred to #Coronavirus as the “Kung-Flu” to my face. Makes me wonder what they’re calling it behind my back.
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The alleged incident comes after President Donald Trump faced scathing criticism for referring to the coronavirus pandemic, which has claimed at least 96 lives so far across the United States, as “the Chinese coronavirus” in a tweet, a move that earned him a rebuke from a Chinese foreign ministry spokesman who said the U.S. should “take care of its own business” before stigmatizing the nation.
Far-right supporters of the president have falsely claimed that the pandemic is a plot perpetrated by Democrats who are working with the Chinese to remove him from office.
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