During a short segment on Monday's edition of The Situation Room, host Wolf Blitzer and his panel repeatedly trashed President Trump as a racist and managed to invoke yet another Trump-Nixon comparison. Blitzer began the segment by talking about how "the Trump White House is going to new lengths tonight to defend the President after he publicly used a racial slur to describe the coronavirus." The phrase Blitzer took issue with was "kung flu." Blitzer proceeded to tee up a video of White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany "defending President Trump's use of that racist phrase." Reacting to the video, Blitzer asked guest Dana Bash "when the President uses a phrase like that to a crowd of overwhelmingly white supporters in Tulsa, Oklahoma...it clearly sends...a very strong message, doesn't it?" Bash agreed with Blitzer: "It's a racist term. Full stop." Blitzer accused Trump of "doubling down" on "these racist messages, doubling down on what's called the culture war." After calling Trump's "overtly racist language" "beneath the presidency," Gregory argued that the President "is projecting that he is under siege like we've never seen him before." According to Gregory, "it's reminiscent of Richard Nixon before full-blown Watergate but when the Vietnam War demonstrations were starting to gain traction in the U.S."
