US President Donald Trump abruptly left a press conference after getting into a heated argument with journalists, according to a TNN report.??
Before the briefing ended, Trump took questions from a reporter for nearly 40 minutes, but he stormed out after engaging with Weijia Jiang from CBS and CNN's Kaitlan Collins.?
When Jiang, who is of Chinese descent asked him as to why he sees the COVID-19 pandemic as a "global race" when more than 80,000 Americans have died from it, he told her to "go ask China" the same question.?
"Well, they're losing their lives everywhere in the world, and maybe that's a question you should ask China. Don't ask me. Ask China that question, OK? When you ask them that question, you may get a very unusual answer,¡± Trump responded, ANI reported.?
When Jiang, who was born in China and raised in West Virginia, asked Trump as to why he was saying that to her specifically, the he replied, ¡°I'm not saying it specifically to anybody. I'm saying it to anybody that would ask a nasty question like that.¡±?
The US President has repeatedly blamed China for COVID-19 outbreak, saying that the spread of the virus could have contained earlier if China had acted sooner.?
In another altercation, Trump snubbed CNN reporter Kaitlan Collin as she approached one of the microphone stands designated to ask questions.?
Trump shot her down several times and abruptly left the conference after she kept trying to ask a question even as he called on another journalist.?
The Trump administration has been cornering China lately over the coronavirus outbreak that first emerged in the city of Wuhan in China and has now spread to over 180 countries.?
The Trump administration has also alleged that China concealed crucial information on COVID-19, deceived the public by dismissing human-to-human transmission and denied its contagious nature.