Trump accuses ‘MSDNC’ and CNN of ‘doing everything possible to make the Caronavirus look as bad as possible;’ lashes out at Democrats
President Trump on Wednesday attacked CNN and “MSDNC (Comcast)” — a reference to MSNBC — for “doing everything possible to make the Caronavirus look as bad as possible, including panicking markets, if possible.” (He misspelled coronavirus in his tweet.)
“Likewise their incompetent Do Nothing Democrat comrades are all talk, no action. USA in great shape!,” Trump added.
In a separate tweet, he said he would be holding a news conference at the White House at 6 p.m. Wednesday, alongside representatives for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
On Tuesday, Trump had defended his administration’s response to the coronavirus epidemic against a flurry of criticism from Democratic presidential candidates, who said in Tuesday night’s primary debate that he wasn’t doing enough to address the deadly outbreak.
“CDC and my Administration are doing a GREAT job of handling Coronavirus, including the very early closing of our borders to certain areas of the world,” Trump tweeted on Tuesday.
“No matter how well we do, however, the Democrats talking point is that we are doing badly,” he wrote. “If the virus disappeared tomorrow, they would say we did a really poor, and even incompetent, job. Not fair, but it is what it is.”
The president’s tweets came as Democrats on the debate stage in South Carolina blasted the way the administration has handled the public health crisis.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) ridiculed Trump’s recent unfounded assertion that the outbreak could “miraculously” subside by April — a claim that health experts say is dubious at best.
On Tuesday, Trump also downplayed the economic impact of the outbreak in the United States, even as analysts voiced concerns.
Reposted from 1/25/20
Maybe call a fake or exaggerated Wuhan Coronavirus National emergency?
But maybe that is the right thing to do in this situation.
But the real deal is everyone is going to play their selfish cards all through this.
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