![]() ![]() ![]() That’s a phrase you’re gonna hear a lot.”ĭemocrats expressed scepticism. Trump, who has been encouraging states to reopen, promised: “We will defeat this horrible enemy, we will revive our economy and we will transition into greatness. “We have met the moment and we have prevailed.” “In every generation, through every challenge and hardship and danger, America has risen to the task,” he said. Trump also claimed without basis that “if somebody wants to be tested right now, they’ll be able to be tested”, echoing a spurious claim he made way back on 6 March. He described it as an effort to “back up” states but did not unveil the national testing strategy that many experts have called for. The president announced his administration was sending $11bn to states, territories and tribes to boost testing. But critics point out that South Korea implemented its testing much quicker, flattening the curve of cases so fewer tests were required. Trump said this week the US will pass 10m tests, nearly double the number of any country and more per capita than South Korea, the UK, France, Japan, Sweden, Finland and many others. More than 9m tests have now been performed, he said, and where three weeks ago roughly 150,000 per day were done, the total is now 300,000 per day and will go up. Some are reporters like Stop dividing our nation.”Įarlier at the briefing, Trump claimed that the US’s testing capacity was “unmatched and unrivalled anywhere in the world, and it’s not even close”. Some are on the frontlines fighting this pandemic as paramedics and health care workers. ![]() Some of us served on active duty in the U.S. The Democratic congressman Ted Lieu of California tweeted: “Dear Asian Americans are Americans. Tara Setmayer, a political commentator, tweeted: “Another disgraceful, racist, temper tantrum by Trump b/c he was asked a pointed question by Trump can’t handle smart, assertive women.” Jiang was born in China but immigrated to America at the age of two. Trump has frequently been criticised for adopting a particularly harsh or patronising tone at press conferences to women in general and women of colour in particular. As Collins repeatedly objected, the president turned on his heel and left the podium. Photograph: Kevin Lamarque/ReutersĬollins, at the microphone, then tried to ask her question, but Trump said he was now looking to someone at the back. CNN correspondent Kaitlan Collins, center, tries to ask a question on the heels of Donald Trump’s exchange with CBS News correspondent Weija Jiang, left. ![]()
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