Until Thursday, the president had remained mostly cordial with the press
Days after calling news media coverage of the coronavirus pandemic “very fair” at a White House news briefing, the president on Thursday went back on the offensive, agreeing with a reporter from the right-wing outlet One America News Network that outlets like The Washington Post, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal were siding with Chinese government propaganda and joking that he wanted to remove 75 percent to 80 percent of the journalists in the briefing room in the name of social...
And he used a question about whether Congress should implement some kind of social distancing measures to joke about such measures imposed on journalists in the White House briefing room. The White House recently said it would pool cameras and let fewer reporters into the room to allow an empty seat between individuals in the typically jam-packed space.
“But you’re actually much too close. You two,” Trump said, circling the air in the direction of the briefing room's front row, “should leave immediately.” But during his extensive media criticisms on Friday, Trump claimed that he’d been tested for coronavirus only after a deluge of questions from the media, which followed Trump’s appearance in pictures with an aide to the Brazilian president who tested positive for the virus.
Toward the end of the briefing, a correspondent for the Trump-friendly cable news outlet OAN gave the president a wider opening to go after the press, which he seized.
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