Trump urges media outlets to stop spreading false rumours on COVID-19


Team Udayavani, Apr 5, 2020, 7:29 AM IST

Washington: US President Donald Trump has urged media outlets in the country to abstain from spreading false rumours during the nation’s critical fight against the deadly coronavirus pandemic.

“We want to save lives; we want as few lives lost as possible. It is therefore critical that certain media outlets stop spreading false rumours and creating fear and even panic with the public. It’s just incredible, Trump told reporters during a press conference at the White House, without taking the names of any media organisation.

In the past Trump has identified organisations like The New York Times, The Washington Post and CNN as fake media.

During his series of daily news conference which has continued uninterrupted for about a fortnight now, Trump has quite often slammed the media and has entered into exchange of words with some of the White House correspondents.

“I could name them but it’s the same ones always the same ones and I guess they are looking for ratings. I don’t know what they’re looking for. So bad for our country and so bad the people understand it, he said.

You look at the levels and approval ratings and they are the lowest they have ever been for media. It is so bad for our country, so bad for the world. Put it together for a little while, get this over with and then go back to your fake news, Trump added.

According to Johns Hopkins University, there are at least 300,915 confirmed virus cases in the US and there have been 8,162 deaths so far.

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