Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany On Donald Trump’s Use Of Phrase ‘Kung Flu’ To Describe Coronavirus: “He Is Linking It To Its Place Of Origin”
Ted Johnson Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany was pressed by reporters on Monday on why President Donald Trump, at his Tulsa rally, used the offensive phrase “kung flu” to describe the coronavirus.In one extended exchange, CBS News White House correspondent Weijia Jiang repeatedly asked McEnany why Trump used the terminology.She asked, “Last July, President Trump declared himself the least racist person there is…Why does he use racist phrases like ‘kung flu'”?“The president doesn’t,” McEnany responded. “What the president does do is point to the fact that the origin of the virus was China.