On This Day, We All Witnessed a Miracle...and the End of the 2024...
I'm Not Doing 'Tolerance' Anymore
Watch CNN's Scott Jennings Explain What a Trump Republican Is. The Panel Didn't...
ReSIsT FaScIsM: Dem Governor Told Hordes of State Government Workers They're Being Laid...
Hey, DOJ, How About Growing Up and Doing Your Damn Jobs?
Now They Care? Democrats Suddenly Get Loud About Epstein Files After Four Years...
God Saved President Trump for a Reason One Year Ago
The Deep State Wins Again
A Quick Bible Study Vol. 276: Moses in the New Testament Gospels
Meet the New Grok, Same As the Old Grok
Will John Brennan Finally Be Indicted?
Diplomacy or Disaster? Is Secretary Rubio Dismantling or Rebuilding America’s State Depart...
God Did Not Play Dice With Donald Trump's Life
Trump Breaks Silence on Alleged Bondi–Bongino Clash
Trump Unleashes 30 Percent Tariffs on Mexico, EU: Hits Back at Cartels, Trade...
Tipsheet

'That's Not True!': ABC's Jon Karl Snaps at Trump Over Ventilator Coverage

Official White House Photo by Andrea Hanks

At Wednesday's coronavirus task force briefing, President Trump sparred with ABC's Jonathan Karl over ventilators. For weeks Karl and other White House reporters have been demanding to know how the government was going to be able to supply all the ventilators our hospitals need for the overwhelming influx of coronavirus patients. Now, when they've exceeded those expectations and we have a surplus of ventilators, Trump observed that the media has gone silent.

Advertisement

"We're now supplying ventilators all over the world because no other country could have done what we did, and you should say that's a great story," Trump instructed the press corps. "Instead, you say Trump was slow - slow, we were so fast. Plus we put the ban on so much earlier when Nancy Pelosi as an example - you don't say this. When she's having her rally in San Francisco in Chinatown in San Francisco nobody wants to say that."

He's right. On February 24, Speaker Pelosi was still encouraging people to come out to Chinatown.

Trump hammered the point home that no matter what he does, the media refuses to give him or his task force credit.

"So if we gave 350 [million people] a test ten times, the fake news media would say, where's the eleventh time?" Trump said. "He didn't do his job. Trump didn't do his job. Because you have a lot of bad reporting out there."

Karl shouted, "that's not true!" a few times.

"You're one of the leaders of the bad reporting," Trump replied.

Advertisement

Trump later suggested that the media is actually "unhappy" that they have extra ventilators because they "never mention it."

A surplus of ventilators is something we should all celebrate.

Editor's Note: Want to support Townhall so we can keep telling the truth about China and the virus they unleashed on the world? Join Townhall VIP and use the promo code WUHAN to get 25% off VIP membership!

Join the conversation as a VIP Member

Recommended

Trending on Townhall Videos

Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement