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President Trump quipped “Let’s give it a shot.” as he selected CNN’s Jim Acosta to ask a question at a press conference this week, according to Daily Caller.
Acosta asked “What do you say to Americans who are upset with you over the way you downplayed this crisis over the last couple of months?”
After referring to President Trump telling Americans that he had things under control, Acosta followed up with ““What do you say to Americans who thought you got this wrong?”
CNN’s Oliver Darcy posted the moment on Twitter.
CNN's @Acosta reads Trump his previous statements downplaying the coronavirus and asks what he would tell Americans upset over his handling of the crisis.
Trump in return attacks CNN, and says the question is "nasty" and "snarky." pic.twitter.com/xl6u4V3u67
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) March 30, 2020
Daily Caller reported on President Trump’s response to Acosta and his disapproval of Acosta’s question.
“I do want them to stay calm and we are doing a great job,” Trump responded. “If you look at those individual statements, they’re all true. Stay calm, it will go away. You know it is going away. And it will go away. And we’re going to have a great victory.”
Trump then turned on Acosta and CNN, adding, “It’s people like you and CNN that say things like that, that — it’s why people just don’t want to listen to CNN anymore. You can ask a normal question.”
The president went on to say that he wanted to keep Americans calm and allow them the room to navigate the pandemic without causing more panic, adding that if panic were the goal, he could certainly make that happen as well.
“I don’t want panic in the country. I could cause panic much better than even you. I could do much — I would make you look like a minor league player,” Trump said. “But you know what, I don’t want to do that. I want to have our country be calm and strong and fight and win, and it will go away.”
President Trump then echoed statements he made earlier in the week celebrating the companies that have volunteered to donate protective equipment and the CEOs that have restructured their factories to produce protective equipment and the people who have distributed information on how to remain safe during this epidemic.
President Trump returned his attention to Acosta and said “Instead of asking a nasty, snarky question like that, you should ask a real question and other than that, I’m going to go to somebody else,”.
This not the fist time President Trump has expressed frustration with Jim Acosta and CNN’s portrayal of his presidency.
