White House reporter apologizes to Trump for question

A Yahoo News reporter apologized to President Donald Trump on Tuesday for misreing a chart and getting wrong numbers he used as basis for a question on U.S. testing for coronavirus.

Trump taunted reporter, Hunter Walker, after Dr. Deborah Birx corrected numbers during an Oval Office news conference.

“Are you going to apologize, Yahoo?” president said. “That’s why you’re Yahoo and body kws who hell you are.”

Walker later tweeted that he h misre a chart and was sorry about it. president, at a later event, thanked Walker for apology and said he appreciated it.

Walker h raised a comparison between U.S. testing rate and that of South Korea during an impromptu news conference following Trump’s meeting with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.

“Mr. President, overall South Korea has done five times more tests than U.S. per capita,” Walker said. “Why is that?

“I don’t think that’s true,” Trump replied.

Walker said that it was true, and Trump directed question to Birx, response coordinator for coronavirus task force. She said U.S. h directed its initial response toward areas where re was an outbreak and later offered specific numbers, saying that U.S. testing rate h surpassed South Korea’s.