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Related: About this forumPresident Donald Trump: Calling it the 'Chinese virus' is not racist at all, it comes from China
From a year ago today, 3/18/20:President Trump responds to a question about whether calling the coronavirus the 'Chinese virus' is racist. He says it isn't, because it came from China.
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President Donald Trump: Calling it the 'Chinese virus' is not racist at all, it comes from China (Original Post)
Rhiannon12866
Mar 2021
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Everyone standing behind Trump during these crazy podium events always looked so mortified.
sop
Mar 2021
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The thing is, if anyone still wonders where this belief came from, it came straight from Trump
Rhiannon12866
Mar 2021
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sop
(10,106 posts)1. Everyone standing behind Trump during these crazy podium events always looked so mortified.
Except Pence, of course.
Rhiannon12866
(204,800 posts)2. The thing is, if anyone still wonders where this belief came from, it came straight from Trump
And this was hardly the only time he said this, and his "supporters" believed him. Earlier on MSNBC they had footage of him saying the same thing at one of his super spreader rallies. And this "news" conference was on national TV.
brush
(53,743 posts)3. He just said it again recently. The racist fool is responsible for all...
attacks on Asian Americans. What a disastrous mess he left the country in. Just a horribly cruel, dumb, incompetent man who of course never should've been president.
Rhiannon12866
(204,800 posts)4. I couldn't have said it better
YoshidaYui
(41,818 posts)5. I can say it better...
TRUMP is an Asshole.
magicguido
(6,315 posts)6. His implication is "Chinese people did this". Bats who live in that area of the world originated it.
then trump let it in and failed to control it. trump virus.