NEW YORK (AP) — A Yahoo News reporter apologized to President Donald Trump on Tuesday for misreading a chart and getting wrong the numbers he used as the basis for a question on U.S. testing for the coronavirus.
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Trump taunted the reporter, Hunter Walker, after Dr. Deborah Birx corrected the numbers during an Oval Office news conference.
“Are you going to apologize, Yahoo?” the president said. “That’s why you’re Yahoo and nobody knows who the hell you are.”
Walker later tweeted that he had misread a chart and was sorry about it. The president, at a later event, thanked Walker for the apology and said he appreciated it.
Walker had raised a comparison between the U.S. testing rate and that of South Korea during an impromptu news conference following Trump’s meeting with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.
“Mr. President, overall South Korea has done five times more tests than the U.S. per capita,” Walker said. “Why is that?
“I don’t think that’s true,” Trump replied.
Walker said that it was true, and Trump directed the question to Birx, the response coordinator for the coronavirus task force. She said the U.S. had directed its initial response toward areas where there was an outbreak and later offered specific numbers, saying that the U.S. testing rate had surpassed South Korea’s.
This President is great. He doesn’t take garbage from his arrogant enemies in the media. If it was Bush, Romney, or McCain, THEY would be the ones bending over backwards and twisting into a pretzel to apologize to the reporter. Weak knee’d Rinos. We finally have a real man in the White House who has a healthy self-esteem and knows how to defend himself and our Nation. Thank G-d he is our President and he will win in a landslide over that old decrepit windbag aka Joe Biden.
Our president is a strong leader. Nobody else would have been able to survive 24/7 onslaughts, smears, lies and abuse from evil media , DevilRats and Rinos.
G-D bless and protect him from his worthless enemies.
Biden must withdraw.
He’s a rapist and a front for the Kenyan’s buddies who are working him. A disgrace.
Henry republicans win big no one wants a senile corrupt Biden president has undone all damage that obama and Biden caused
Just remember Biden sold this country to China for a billion bucks.