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Mere moments after President Trump concluded his Wednesday Oval Office address to the nation about the extraordinary steps the administration was taking to stem the deadly coronavirus, CNN, via pompous chief White House correspondent Jim Acosta, was already insisting the address was “smacking of xenophobia” and bigotry. His evidence was Trump calling the coronavirus a “foreign virus,” which was accurate.
After Prime Time host Chris Cuomo had described the address as the most serious any president had delivered in a generation, Acosta immediately tried to compare the newly announced 30-day travel ban from Europe to the President’s travel ban to prevent Islamic terrorists from entering the country, and seemed to predict chaos:
That is stunning. That is going to cause major disruptions to the travel industry and it is going cause all kinds of problems that we haven't seen since the Trump administration tried the travel ban very early on in the administration.
We saw people waiting at the airport and so on wondering if loved ones will get back from Europe. So it is interesting too find out what the details are from the administration officials in terms of how they're going to implement that.
“Now why the President would go as far as to describe it as a foreign virus, that is something we'll also be asking questions about,” Acosta added, whining about Trump’s use of words. He then suggested the term had some sort of connection to Trump’s immigration policy because “hardliner” Stephen Miller helped write the address.
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