US President Donald Trump. (File photo: NYT)
WASHINGTON: Accusing the media of asking hostile questions and claiming he never said the coronavirus was a hoax even though video footage exists of him saying it, US President Donald Trump has canned his daily press briefing saying it is “not worth the time & effort.”
“I never said the pandemic was a Hoax! Who would say such a thing? I said that the Do Nothing Democrats, together with their Mainstream Media partners, are the Hoax. They have been called out & embarrassed on this, even admitting they were wrong, but continue to spread the lie!” Trump raged in a couple of tweets in which he said the “lamestream media … refuses to report the truth of facts accurately.”
The President ire was evidently sparked by the debacle following Thursday’s briefing in which he wondered if disinfectants and ultraviolet rays could be injected or introduced inside the human body to kill the coronavirus. Despite the serious tone in which he addressed the questions to his aides, Trump later claimed, amid global ridicule, that he was being sarcastic, while his press aides rushed to do