{"id":322618,"date":"2020-04-26T04:05:13","date_gmt":"2020-04-26T04:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=322618"},"modified":"2020-04-26T04:05:13","modified_gmt":"2020-04-26T04:05:13","slug":"not-worth-time-effort-president-trump-on-press-briefings-after-disinfectant-gaffe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/not-worth-time-effort-president-trump-on-press-briefings-after-disinfectant-gaffe\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Not Worth Time &#038; Effort&#8217;: President Trump on press briefings after disinfectant gaffe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-320317 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/trump-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"455\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/02\/trump-1.jpg 455w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/02\/trump-1-300x264.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 455px) 100vw, 455px\" \/>US President Donald Trump on Saturday said that his press conferences were not worth this time as he was mostly asked \u201chostile questions\u201d by a section of American media.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cWhat is the purpose of having White House News Conferences when the Lamestream Media asks nothing but hostile questions, &amp; then refuses to report the truth or facts accurately. They get record ratings, &amp; the American people get nothing but Fake News. Not worth the time &amp; effort!\u201d Trump tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cRemember, the Cure can\u2019t be worse than the problem itself. Be careful, be safe, use common sense!\u201d Trump said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cI never said the pandemic was a Hoax! Who would say such a thing? I said that the Do Nothing Democrats, together with their Mainstream Media partners, are the Hoax. They have been called out &amp; embarrassed on this, even admitting they were wrong, but continue to spread the lie!\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">On Thursday, Trump suggested that doctors could explore ways of using disinfectants or ultraviolet light to treat people infected with the coronavirus through injection or a cleanse.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Trump later claimed he had been speaking sarcastically.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Coronavirus cases in the United States has crossed 900,000 mark, with the death toll exceeding 52,000 on Saturday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">New York remains the hardest-hit state with more than 250,000 cases.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Worldwide, more than 2.8 million people have been infected from virus and over 200,000 people have lost their lives.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump on Saturday said that his press conferences were not worth this time as he was mostly asked \u201chostile questions\u201d by a section of American media. \u201cWhat is the purpose of having White House News Conferences when the Lamestream Media asks nothing but hostile questions, &amp; then refuses to report the truth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":320317,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[53],"tags":[64,50],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322618"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322618"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":322619,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322618\/revisions\/322619"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/320317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}