OAN Reporter Asks Incredibly Bonkers Softball Question at Trump Coronavirus Presser – By Justin Baragona (Daily Beast) / March 19 2020
The pro-Trump outlet’s Chanel Rion asked if the term “Chinese food” is racist and encouraged the president to claim mainstream media are siding with the Chinese government.
Towards the end of President Donald Trump’s coronavirus press conference on Thursday, the president took some truly ridiculous questions from far-right cable news channel One America News that allowed him to rant against the media and suggest news outlets are doing “state propaganda” for China.
Over the past couple of days, the president has taken to calling COVID-19 the “Chinese Virus,” sparking outrage that he may be encouraging the racist targeting of Asian-Americans. Trump, meanwhile, has insisted he uses the term to retaliate against some Chinese officials blaming the U.S. military for the viral outbreak.
OANN White House correspondent Chanel Rion, therefore, on Thursday decided to set the president up with a ridiculous question to give him a path to rant about the media and claim he’s not encouraging racism.
“Mr. President, do you consider the term ‘Chinese food’ to be racist because it is food that originated from China?” Rion leadingly asked.
“I don’t think that’s racist at all,” Trump gleefully responded.
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