President of the United States Donald trump got in a fight with journalists during a press conference on the topic of coronavirus and prematurely interrupted his speech. The White house did not like the questions, one of which he even called “ugly”, then left.
according to The Washington Post, may 11, at the White house hosted the first after a long break briefing trump. The President has told about what measures are being taken to combat the epidemic COVID-19 and highlighted the fact that the US leads in the number of tests for coronavirus in the world.
However, said trump has caused confusion among the assembled media representatives. The correspondent of CBS News Weijia Jiang asked him why he attached such importance to the leadership of States in the test population, when the United States continues to die a large number of infected and the number is growing.
“don’t ask me. Ask China this question,” retorted the tramp.
Jiang asked why trump was advised to do it. As notes the edition, the employee of CBS News in the age of two migrated to the US from China. But trump, who many Americans are routinely criticized for migration policy, explained that her question was “ugly”.
After that, trump gave the floor to correspondence CNN Kaitlan Collins, but she decided to give a colleague with CBS to finish. Then trump gave the floor to the next participant briefing, and when the CNN reporter tried to ask a question, the President interrupted her. After a short verbal skirmish between trump left the briefing.
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