'Get back to reporting instead of sensationalism': Trump ridicules 'terrible' NBC reporter
by Mike Brest
| March 20, 2020 12:55 PM
President Trump issued a personal rebuke to a reporter who asked him about Americans "who are scared" about the coronavirus pandemic.
"I say, I think you are a terrible reporter, that's what I say," Trump told the reporter, NBC News' Peter Alexander, at Friday's White House coronavirus press briefing. "I think that's a very nasty question and I think it is a very bad signal that you are putting out to the American people."
"The American people are looking for answers are they're looking for hope and you're doing sensationalism, the same with NBC and 'Con-cast.' I don't call it Comcast, I call it 'Con-cast,' whom you work," he said.
"Let me say something," the president continued. "That’s really bad reporting. You ought to get back to reporting instead of sensationalism. Let’s see if it works. It might, and it might not. I happen to feel good about it, but who knows? I have been right a lot. Let’s see what happens."
This is not the first time Trump has ridiculed Alexander.
The president's blow-up came as more than 14,000 people in the U.S. have been diagnosed with the coronavirus cases in the United States. It has resulted in at least 187 deaths, according to CBS News, while more than 120 people have recovered.
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