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Trump Defends Racist ‘Chinese Virus’ Rhetoric
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Trump just cannot help himself. He appears to be hard-wired to default to his white supremacist/white racist history and mentality every single time adversity strikes.
This morning (March 18), in the latest of now daily press conferences ostensibly held to update and inform the American public about his regime’s efforts to thwart the out-of-control coronavirus pandemic, Donald Trump opened the meeting by calling this disease the “Chinese virus.” That characterization was made without prompting or questioning by any reporters.
Once more with feeling: The very first thing out of his mouth, without being asked or prompted, this “leader of the free world” publicly smeared not only the 1.3 billion people of China, and America’s very own and substantial Chinese population, but all Asians everywhere on earth.
And, then, in answer to direct questions about his use of this term, Trump twice defended his obviously racist characterization, indicating that because the coronavirus outbreak began in China, there is nothing wrong…or racist about this descriptor — or him. He made this assertion in light of one reporter’s point that Asian Americans across the country are being harassed and discriminated against by mainly Trump supporters who have accepted his determination and declaration…
