THis is a grat example of why people dont trust Trump and why it diminishes our standing in the world.
FOR PURELY POLITICAL REASONS (ie to deflect blame from his own actions), Trump and his minions insisted on calling the Coronavirus the "Chinese Virus" despite calling Obama's pandemic "Swine Flu or H1N1 (it originate in the US)
After a while Trump reversed course ON TWITTER (ie the "disinformation network):
"But after reports of a rise in racism and attacks against Asian Americans emerged, Trump tweeted this week that it was "NOT their fault" and said he'd no longer call it the "Chinese virus."
"Everyone knows it came out of China," Trump said Tuesday. "But I decided we shouldn't make any more of a big deal out of it."
In typical Trump double speak, he said to the American people "its not their fault" and we shouldnt make a big deal out of it" . . . WHILE MAKING A BIG DEAL OF IT IN THE UN and the G7:
"Still, his administration has continued working to brand it as a Chinese-created crisis, with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo again Wednesday referring to "the Wuhan virus" and "this crisis that began in Wuhan, China." He also did not dispute a German news report that he'd pressed G-7 leaders to include language about the "Wuhan virus" in a joint statement."
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