Obama slams Trump’s ‘kung flu’ language, saying it “shocks and pisses me off’, says report
Washington: Former U.S. President Barack Obama has slammed his successor Donald Trump who tries to promote anti-Asian sentiment by using racist language “kung flu” to call the coronavirus during campaign rallies, U.S. media reported on Monday. “I don’t want a country in which the President of the United States is actively trying to promote anti-Asian sentiment and thinks it’s funny. I don’t want that. That still shocks and pisses me off,” Mr Obama reportedly said in an invite-only fundraiser last week for presumptive Democratic president nominee Joe Biden.
Mr Trump at least used the racist term twice this month, first at his Tulsa rally and later at a youth rally in Arizona. Some people have warned that rhetoric from Mr Trump and other officials blaming China for the disease’s spread has lead to a rise in harassment and mistreatment of Asian Americans, according to media reports.