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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,665 posts)
Wed Mar 18, 2020, 01:38 PM Mar 2020

Tucker Carlson: Trump at 'His Very Best' Defending Use of 'Chinese Virus'

Fox News host Tucker Carlson applauded President Donald Trump on Tuesday night for doubling down on using the term “Chinese virus” to refer to the novel coronavirus, saying the moment was the president “at his very best.”

During a coronavirus press conference on Tuesday afternoon in which Trump announced he’d be seeking roughly $1 trillion in stimulus help to boost the economy throughout the pandemic, the president was asked if he was creating a stigma of racism by labeling the virus Chinese or from China.

Trump replied that he was pushing back on Chinese propaganda that blamed the American military for the virus, adding that he has to “call it where it came from.” Earlier in the day, an Asian-American CBS reporter noted that a White House official called the virus the “Kung-Flu” to her face.

On Carlson’s primetime Fox News show Tuesday night, the host—who has consistently described the virus, officially known as COVID-19, as “the Wuhan virus”—took issue with media outlets criticizing the president for his use of the term. Noting that Chinese officials are falsely claiming the virus originated in the United States, Carlson said, “Don’t be shocked if at least one American media outlet promotes that idea.”

https://news.yahoo.com/tucker-carlson-trump-very-best-020521957.html

Crawl back under your rock Carlson.

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Tucker Carlson: Trump at 'His Very Best' Defending Use of 'Chinese Virus' (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Mar 2020 OP
He's right because it serves as a destraction from his incompetence tman Mar 2020 #1
Yep, this is his best and it totally sucks. 33taw Mar 2020 #2
Give me a break, viruses don't have any nationality. totodeinhere Mar 2020 #3
Another racist just like trump spanone Mar 2020 #4

tman

(983 posts)
1. He's right because it serves as a destraction from his incompetence
Wed Mar 18, 2020, 01:44 PM
Mar 2020

Are we going to take the bait? It's how this clown wins in Nov.

He wins a debate about 'political correctness'
He loses a debate about incompetence.

totodeinhere

(13,056 posts)
3. Give me a break, viruses don't have any nationality.
Wed Mar 18, 2020, 02:00 PM
Mar 2020

He should concentrating his effort on things that really matter, not this BS.

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