Apparently, if you call the COVID-19 Coronavirus what the media called it in the beginning, you are a racist, and now according to CNN an xenophobe as well. CNN is bashing Trump (as usual) calling the coronavirus a “foreign virus” which it is because it originated in China. This is CNN:
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I cannot believe this. Chris Cuomo and Jim Acosta are concerned about Xenophobia by calling coronavirus a foreign virus. The nation is in a crisis and these grandstanding nitwits care about how something sounds.
— Carmine Sabia (@CarmineSabia) March 12, 2020
"I think it's going to come across to a lot of Americans as smacking of xenophobia…"@Acosta says @realDonaldTrump calling COVID-19 a "foreign virus" could be considered xenophobic language and suggests WH aide Stephen Miller was behind the use of the term. pic.twitter.com/ZlV2aqC9u2
— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) March 12, 2020
Moments after the President’s Oval Office Address, CNN’s Jim Acosta accuses @realDonaldTrump of “xenophobia” for referring to the Coronavirus as a "foreign virus" (even though it originated in China) pic.twitter.com/P8x7IJhEAN
— TV News HQ (@TVNewsHQ) March 12, 2020
On CNN, Chief White House Correspondent Jim Acosta says President @realDonaldTrump referring to the coronavirus as a "foreign virus" "smacks of xenophobia." pic.twitter.com/1aibFjZp5R
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) March 12, 2020