Jim Acosta, Media Criticize President Trump for “Racist” Use of Term “Chinese Virus”

Despite ample evidence that many news agencies, especially CNN, referred to the Coronavirus with the word Chinese included or by itself at first, media personalities like Jim Acosta today posted what can only be interpreted as disapproval of the use of “Chinese virus” by President Trump. Acosta took to Twitter during his press conference to say, “Trump again calls Coronavirus the “Chinese virus.”

Trump again calls Coronavirus the “Chinese virus.”

— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) March 19, 2020

Another CNN reporter, John Harwood, also Tweeted about the use of the term, saying, “Trump opens Thursday briefing by again calling it “the Chinese virus,” signaling it will be an election-year staple of how he defends his handling of the crisis.”

Trump opens Thursday briefing by again calling it “the Chinese virus,” signalling it will be an election-year staple of how he defends his handling of the crisis

— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) March 19, 2020

Vox journalist Aaron Rupar accused the President of being the press conference with “casual racism” for calling it the “Chinese virus.” It seems hypocritical as Vox recently released a video explaining how the virus began in China.

“We continue our relentless effort to defeat the Chinese virus” — Trump again begins today’s coronavirus news conference with some casual racism pic.twitter.com/Xgcmiq38Ur

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 19, 2020

These are China’s Wet Markets and this is how they led to the Coronavirus Pandemic

China learned about the dangers of Wet Markets from SARS, they knew this could happen again and tried to cover it up when it did.

So yes, this is a Chinese Virus.

(h/t: @voxdotcom) pic.twitter.com/pA1RnsI8Iq

— Benny (@bennyjohnson) March 19, 2020

It seems amazing that these reporters are more worried about covering for a regime that clearly did everything they could to cover up the extent of the virus and allowed for it to escape and now it is in every corner of the planet.

The Chinese Communist Party suppressed initial reports on the Chinese Virus and punished doctors and journalists, causing Chinese and international experts to miss critical opportunities to prevent a global pandemic.

https://t.co/wVfXAWSR7I

— NSC (@WHNSC) March 18, 2020