Advertisement

Updated April 29th, 2020 at 03:17 IST

White House reporter apologizes to Trump for question

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.

| Image:self
Advertisement

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.

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.

Advertisement

Published April 29th, 2020 at 03:17 IST

Your Voice. Now Direct.

Send us your views, we’ll publish them. This section is moderated.

Advertisement
Advertisement

Trending Quicks

Mukhtar Ansari Death
a minute ago
Chamkila
3 minutes ago
Lorry Crushes Car-Cleaner To Death In Telangana
8 minutes ago
Major League Cricket
9 minutes ago
Abhay Deol
10 minutes ago
Jailed Gangster Mukhtar Ansari Passes Away
11 minutes ago
delhi cm arvind kejriwal
12 minutes ago
MEA Responds To China’s Comment On Sikh Separatist Gurupatwant Singh Pannun
14 minutes ago
Riyan Parag
16 minutes ago
David Warner
17 minutes ago
Dhara Gujjar
26 minutes ago
The ICJ has ordered Israel to ensure the smooth flow of aid to the people of Gaza.
32 minutes ago
UFC Exclusive Erin Blanchfield
34 minutes ago
Indian pharma sector
36 minutes ago
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
Whatsapp logo