President of the United States Donald Trump speaking with supporters at a "Keep America Great" rally at Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Phoenix, Arizona. (Gage Skidmore)
On Tuesday, at President Donald Trump's rally in Phoenix, Arizona, he once again used the term "Kung Flu" to describe coronavirus — a term widely considered racist.
"Wuhan. Coronavirus. Kung Flu. COVID-19," he said — to tremendous applause of the rallygoers.
He then mocked the technical term, COVID-19 for the virus, calling it "an odd name" and claiming that nobody knows what the 19 is for. (COVID-19 means the coronavirus disease isolated in 2019).
This marks the second time that Trump has publicly used the term "Kung Flu" — a phrase that, just weeks ago, members of the Trump administration were trying to deny had been used in front of a Chinese-American reporter.
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