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US PRESIDENT DONALD Trump abruptly ended his coronavirus press briefing yesterday after getting into a testy exchange with an Asian-American reporter.
CBS News reporter Weijia Jiang asked Trump why he continued to insist that the US was doing better than other countries when it came to testing for the virus.
“Why does that matter?” she asked. “Why is this a global competition when, every day, Americans are still losing their lives?”
“They’re losing their lives everywhere in the world,” Trump replied. “And maybe that’s a question you should ask China. Don’t ask me, ask China that question, OK?”
Jiang, who identifies herself in her Twitter bio as a Chinese born West Virginian, pushed back.
“Sir, why are you saying that to me specifically?” she said.
Trump replied: “I’m saying it to anybody who would ask a nasty question like that.”
He then attempted to move on to another reporter as Jiang continued to press him about his response.
Trump called on another female reporter but then immediately called on someone else. When the woman tried to ask her question, Trump abruptly ended the press conference and walked back into the White House.
The internet was quick to rally round Jiang, with the hashtag #StandWithWeijiaJiang soon trending on Twitter.
“I #StandWithWeijiaJiang against Trump’s racist tantrums,” tweeted Star Trek actor and prominent Asian-American activist George Takei.
Reporter and CNN political analyst April Ryan, who has also been on the receiving end of Trump’s words, tweeted: “Welcome to the club! This is sickening! It is his habit!”
Trump, who has never been shy about his dislike for the news media, has often locked horns with journalists during his coronavirus press briefings.
Earlier in the briefing, Trump was asked about what he meant when he tweeted out about “Obamagate”, which he called ‘the worst crime in American history’ and whether he would ask for former US president Barack Obama to be prosecuted.
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Trump replied to the reporter “you know what it is”, without elaborating further.
More than 80,000 people have died in the US from the coronavirus pandemic, out of more than 1.3 million cases, according to the latest figures yesterday from Johns Hopkins University, by far the highest death toll of any country.
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Very best of luck to them.
Starting your journey only to end up further away than when you started.
All they had to do was come drinking with me.
9000 calories a day, that’s unreal. Good luck to them
6 Big Mac meals from McDonald s will do the trick DAILY
They talk the talk ,
But hopefully they can walk the walk.
Best of luck folks…
Hopefully, but CO’L has definitely walked the walk already. Everest and South Pole (and she’s physically tiny.) Good luck to them.
What a waste of time and money and possibly life.
With your attitude, humans would never have left Africa. You sound about as adventurous and inquisitive as a door knob.
Might have been a good idea if our ancestors had of stayed in Africa ..
Brian over a 100 people have walked that same walk . We know where the pole is and we know it can be done. Your argument over Africa is stupid just like you .
Over 100 people have gone to space. Do we stop space exploration and research now? Over 100 people left Africa thousands upon thousands of years ago. Should we have stopped then?
I have to agree with Declan, I’m not what is being gained other that self gratification at a huge cost. North Pole has been covered and no research is being done by these two. I don’t even understand how they are getting money from sponsors…..what is the return?
This being compared to space exploration is silly as space is vastly unexplored still with much to be learned and gained form it.
And yet, Noel, we have space tourism, which provides no scientific benefit whatsoever. I mean, where do you draw the line? The North Pole is one place. If you say we shouldn’t attempt to go there because it has already been done, then we probably shouldn’t attempt Everest either. Or Mont Blanc. Or Carrauntuohill. Or the Hill of Tara. Or walk to the beach. I mean, you can’t tell people they can’t do something without coming up with some arbitrary line beyond which humans should no longer venture. And who gets to decide that line?
I din’t say they couldn’t do it, I just agreed with the opinion that it is a waste of a lot of money. Space tourism actually has a benefit……it will potentially play a part in the possibility of human life going to another planets and potentially living on another planet. As for the other examples okoume gave, how many will cost form 30,000 to 100,000 to return. Everest is great too but let’s be honest, people only climb it so they can say the climbed it. What exactly is the human race benefiting from the climb?
Just so we are clear, I’m not telling people what to do or not do but just stating in my opinion that trekking to the North Pole with an exit plan costing either 30,000 or 100,000 seems like a waste of money especially given the fact they are relying on others to help pay for.
Well, personally, I think it is worthwhile. I think an individual’s personal challenges are just as worthy as humankind’s collective challenges. And if someone else is willing to pay for it, then so be it. Regarding the scientific benefits, well the technological advances since the first person walked to the North Pole have rendered aided human endurance information since then mostly obsolete.
Agree waste of time, and money. With all this talk of Africa why don’t these adventurers go there ,and give of their time , skills( she’s a doctor) ,and resources, to improve the lives of the less fortunate of our brethren.
I thought the Rocky Mountains were going to be a little rockier than this.That John Denver’s full of shit.
Best of luck lads hope you get back safely. But I think yer mad!
Mean global sea ice over the 2013 year was above average and is now the same as it was in 1986 and is also 10 feet thick compared to 7 feet last year arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/global.daily.ice.area.jpg
Humans think they know everything!
You are totally wrong as usual and trying to mislead to further your anti-science assault on the robust evidence for manmade climate change.
The NOAA, accepted experts in records of ice and snow say this:
“The Arctic caught a bit of a break in 2013 from the recent string of record-breaking warmth and ice melt of the last decade,” said David M. Kennedy, NOAA’s deputy under secretary for operations, during a press briefing today at the American Geophysical Union annual meeting in San Francisco. “But the relatively cool year in some parts of the Arctic does little to offset the long-term trend of the last 30 years: the Arctic is warming rapidly, becoming greener and experiencing a variety of changes, affecting people, the physical environment, and marine and land ecosystems.”
Why do you think anti that all of the oil companies and northern countries like Russia are lining up and preparing to exploit our lovely pristine Arctic? They all say that the lessening of sea ice is going to open up passages for them to get there year round. They obviously know more than you! Or perhaps they just believe the scientific consensus and the evidence of their own eyes.
I wish you would stop this anti-science campaign against the scientific consensus on climate change and I wish also you would say one way or another whether you have a vested interest in your campaign.
Well there goes Santa ‘s job then. I guess he’ll have to emigrate
Legends
In 2008 the Kapitan Khlebnikov got stuck in the ice in the Arctic Sea and had to sit it out for a week before this very powerful icebreaker ,again carrying tourists, could break free even with it’s 24000shp power.This is the ice that warmists are telling us has vanished :-)
Al Gore said the Arctic would be ice free by 2013 and he should know ;-)
First of all, the Kapitan Khlebnikov didn’t get stuck in ice in 2008. It actually got stuck in ice in November 2009 (winter time). Secondly, warmists aren’t saying the Arctic or Antarctic is ice free, you are. What climatologists are saying (and Al Gore is not a climatologist) is there has been an observed longterm decrease in both sea ice cover and density/depth. That doesn’t mean you won’t have rebound years which have also been observed. Your choice to pick out select incidents shows you conflate weather with climate. It’s not very encouraging when one person, who doesn’t know what climate is, flies in the face of the majority of the world’s climatologists.
Wouldn’t it have been fantastic if climatologists existed for a few thousand years to observe the many natural climate changes that may have occurred in the past? ;)
Well I suppose Dec in a way they are – paleoclimatology studies past climate change through evidence such as ice cores and fossils… that is why we know so much about past climate and the natural forcings… that is how we also know that there is no possible natural explanation for the current unprecedented rate of warming we have seen on our planet in the last 100 years… and we know that when climate did change so quickly in the past from natural forcings (eg big asteroid hits or massive volcanic activity) then it usually led to mass extinction events. There has not been a mass extinction event in the history of human life on this planet, but most scientists thing that we are entering one now – and all our own work… sad :-( But also dangerous, since messing with the food chain and the whole ecosystem always has unforseen and unknowable outcomes…
Expected to lose up to 44lbs? I’d be dead if I lost that ..
Correction:
In 2009 the Kapitan Khlebnikov got stuck in the ice in the Arctic Sea and had to sit it out for a week before this very powerful icebreaker ,again carrying tourists, could break free even with it’s 24000shp power.This is the ice that warmists are telling us has vanished :-)
OK so you are obviously not aware at all of the science! It is the Arctic that is warming at a much faster rate than the rest of the globe, not the Antarctic. Why on earth you expect anybody to believe you as an unqualified commentator on this site above the actual real experts who are taking these records all the time is beyond me but here goes:
“The Arctic caught a bit of a break in 2013 from the recent string of record-breaking warmth and ice melt of the last decade,” said David M. Kennedy, NOAA’s deputy under secretary for operations, during a press briefing today at the American Geophysical Union annual meeting in San Francisco. “But the relatively cool year in some parts of the Arctic does little to offset the long-term trend of the last 30 years: the Arctic is warming rapidly, becoming greener and experiencing a variety of changes, affecting people, the physical environment, and marine and land ecosystems.”
Here’s an explainer about Antarctic sea ice – sigh! http://www.skepticalscience.com/antarctica-gaining-ice.htm
In 2009 the Kapitan Khlebnikov got stuck in the ice in the Arctic Sea
Professor Wieslaw Maslowski ,a fan of models advised, the Catlin expedition to the North Pole in 2009, he told them that they could row there in open water. He was wrong, they missed by about 800 miles :-). He also claimed that the Arctic would be ice free by 2013 [a popular year with climatrologists] He also claimed that his guesstimate might be too conservative.
Is that really the best you can do, quoting one bloke from years ago???!!!
How about some evidence to rebut the scientific evidence that Arctic sea ice is melting at an alarming rate, faster than predicted by most climatologists??? Faster than predicted by the IPCC in fact!!! And still is:
“The Arctic caught a bit of a break in 2013 from the recent string of record-breaking warmth and ice melt of the last decade,” said David M. Kennedy, NOAA’s deputy under secretary for operations, during a press briefing today at the American Geophysical Union annual meeting in San Francisco. “But the relatively cool year in some parts of the Arctic does little to offset the long-term trend of the last 30 years: the Arctic is warming rapidly, becoming greener and experiencing a variety of changes, affecting people, the physical environment, and marine and land ecosystems.”
In 2007 Ann Bancroft and Liv Arnesen, planned to walk 530 miles from Canada to the Pole, swimming across rifts in the ice created by warming. They failed after a few miles ’cause it was too cold.
I think it’s great that young people save up for years to go on holidays to exotic places be it the jungles of South America or to the North Pole but I do wish they would leave out the almost obligatory AGW bit or is this a ploy to get grants? Thes kids would be wise to take out insurance against the cost of being rescued just like the Akademik Shokalskiy fiasco which was led by Chris Turney [a Professor no less]. “Australian Maritime Safety Authority general manager John Young said the ships involved in the rescue would each be responsible for their own costs.
The costs, which would run to millions of dollars, could ultimately result in legal action between the ships’ insurance companies and the owners of the stranded Russian research vessel that sparked the rescue.”
Maybe these intrepid explorers might consult the experts on Arctic ice ? The Russians,Danes and Canadians have lot of experience in the real world, not sure if they bother much with ‘models’.
Climate activists are cracking up.”And the psychological damage is not only over what is happening now, but what is likely going to happen in the future.“This kind of anticipatory anxiety is especially crippling and is increasingly being seen among climate activists — in some cases rising to the level of a kind of ‘pre-traumatic’ stress disorder ” Lise Van Susteren forensic psychiatrist
I agree anti, it can be stressful when you have studied it enough and see the scientific consensus that we are going to be fcuked if we do not act fast.
It’s also distressing when you look at your child and think that bas**rd oil interests and US ultra-conservatives out there are spending billions to block action on climate change and cast doubt on the science just to further their own financial ends. I do not know how they can sleep at night. Tragic and very very sad :-(
Oops! That comment was meant to be in response to Anti’s comment about the psychological stresses of what we know lies ahead for our children and the planet with climate change…
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