White House Attacked After Defending Donald Trump’s ‘Chinese Virus’ Term, Called ‘Propaganda Media’

The White House has been attacked by Twitter users after defending Donald Trump’s “Chinese virus” term.

The President of America stirred the global public when he called the novel coronavirus “Chinese virus.” Trump said that he only wanted to be “accurate” because “it comes from China.” However, many still slammed the POTUS and called him “racist.”

Despite the backlash, the White House took to social media to defend Trump. It mentioned several diseases allegedly named from places.

“Spanish Flu. West Nile Virus. Zika. Ebola. All named for places. Before the media’s fake outrage, even CNN called it ‘Chinese Coronavirus.’ Those trying to divide us must stop rooting for America to fail and give Americans real info they need to get through the crisis,” The White House wrote on Twitter.

The post received thousands of comments disagreeing with it, with some calling the White House a “propaganda media.” Several also mocked the POTUS and even attacked him.

“We're calling the Florida outbreak the ‘Mar a Lago Virus,’” one @sun_cel commented.

“The DC outbreak is also known as the ‘CPAC Virus.’ Just so we're being consistent,” the same netizen added.

"It happened under republican watch. Ergo: Republican Virus. Also known as TotalCon45,” @Ummnope7 opined.

“ORANGE-45 named for the virus currently occupying the White House at the moment,” @repettomuzik commented.

Meanwhile, some took the time to correct the White House and Trump reminding them that the term Chinese refers to people and not the place.

“First case of Spanish flu was in France. Ebola was named after a river. Zika is a forest. Chinese are people. So we will call this Covid 45,” @DannyDeraney shared.

“I don't know how to break this to you, Donald. 'Chinese' is not a place,” @johnlundin wrote.

Meanwhile, some also defended the POTUS. One online user shared a snap of a report from CNN calling the pandemic “Chinese virus” as what the White House mentioned, months before Trump used the same term but it did not cause a stir like what happened to the POTUS.

The World Health Organization officials have already spoken about the matter. It discouraged the people from following Trump. Dr. Mike Ryan, the executive director of WHO’s emergencies program, said at a news conference that viruses know no borders or ethnicity. Also, he encouraged everyone to be careful with words because it could “unintentionally lead to racial profiling.”