Mr Trump also was back to publicly admitting just how much cable news coverage he consumes each day – even amid what he declared a national emergency.
“Somebody was on yesterday on one of the networks,” he boasted, “and said that there’s never been a president even close that’s been able to do what I have done in slashing all of the red tape and everything to get very important things to the market — medical.”
But the press conference’s most Trumpian moment came near its end, with the president opting against letting a pitch in his usual strike zone go by. A reporter from the far right One America News Network asked a long question with this premise: Does he agree that major media outlets are siding with the Chinese government, which he and his top White House aides have accused of covering up COVID-19’s initial going public there.
What followed was the president saying outlets like the Wall Street Journal, New York Times and The Washington Post are “dishonest”– he earlier accused NBC News of calling him “racist” – before uttering these words: “They are siding with China.”
Arthur Julien
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