Donald Trump called COVID-19 the 'Chinese Virus' and Twitter lost it
Twitterati couldn't help but point out his 'racist' remarks
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If there's one thing during this pandemic mayhem that's keeping Twitter on its toes, it's US President Donald Trump's remarks about it.
After fumbling more than once in his handling of the dire issue, the president took to Twitter to share a particular tweet that came across especially racist in a time that could do without such - and of course, Twitter wasn't having it!
Addressing the Governor of New York Andrew Cuomo, Trump tweeted, "Cuomo wants 'all states to be treated the same.' But all states aren’t the same. Some are being hit hard by the Chinese Virus, some are being hit practically not at all."
The tweet, almost instantly, caused a furor on American twitter after people caught onto the fact that a leader was attaching a 'racist' connotation to the deadly virus.
Chinese-Americans also started weighing in with what they think of 'racism' in the country in the wake of the pandemic.
This isn't the first time that Trump has referred to coronavirus as the 'Chinese Virus' publically. On Tuesday, he addressed a press conference where he defended his choice of words, saying, "Well China was putting out information, which was false, that our military gave this to them. That was false. Rather than having an argument, I said I have to call it where it came from. It did come from China."
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After fumbling more than once in his handling of the dire issue, the president took to Twitter to share a particular tweet that came across especially racist in a time that could do without such - and of course, Twitter wasn't having it!
Addressing the Governor of New York Andrew Cuomo, Trump tweeted, "Cuomo wants 'all states to be treated the same.' But all states aren’t the same. Some are being hit hard by the Chinese Virus, some are being hit practically not at all."
The tweet, almost instantly, caused a furor on American twitter after people caught onto the fact that a leader was attaching a 'racist' connotation to the deadly virus.
Chinese-Americans also started weighing in with what they think of 'racism' in the country in the wake of the pandemic.
This isn't the first time that Trump has referred to coronavirus as the 'Chinese Virus' publically. On Tuesday, he addressed a press conference where he defended his choice of words, saying, "Well China was putting out information, which was false, that our military gave this to them. That was false. Rather than having an argument, I said I have to call it where it came from. It did come from China."
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