The UK Daily Mail ran a headline yesterday after a Coronavirus White House press conference that said “Trump REFUSES to say if he has been tested for coronavirus and storms out of White House briefing on crisis”:
Trump REFUSES to say if he has been tested for coronavirus and storms out of White House briefing on crisis https://t.co/lc9gFuT8Zl pic.twitter.com/gJvjoID72I
— Daily Mail US (@DailyMail) March 9, 2020
But as Benny Johnson pointed on out Twitter with video, that’s not at all what happened:
Compare this Tweet by @DailyMail to what actually happened:
pic.twitter.com/rKQjIB7Nbc https://t.co/mKtp0tbts0
— Benny (@bennyjohnson) March 9, 2020
Indeed I went back and looked at the actual video and they weren’t doing a Q&A. Trump left the press conference about 10 minutes into it and as he started walking out reporters just started yelling questions. There was no storming out and there was no refusal to say if he’d been tested. The headline was complete garbage.
Trump retweeted Benny’s tweet with the comment “Fake News!!”:
Fake News!! https://t.co/BG62YbD7Fw
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 10, 2020
You can watch the video from the White House yourself (cued up to 9:19):