Really?
Do you honestly think that Trump was speaking about history professors and not the pro-Trump mob swarming through the street and chanting “Jews will not replace us”? Trump’s base wasn’t comprised of academics.
The India variant and Brazilian variant do not refer to the nation of origin, and MERS does not denote a specific country or people. And it wasn’t simply the insistence on referring to the China virus … it was coupling that with the childish and repeated reference to the “Kung Flu” that made it clear that Trump was trying to deflect public anger by arousing anti-Chinese bias. They were the designated scapegoat, allowing any anger resulting from his mismanagement of the pandemic to be shifted elsewhere.
Trump is an unbridled narcissist who inspired a mob of hooligans to attack our nation’s capitol, chanting their desire to hang the vice-president and kill the speaker of the house. He sat for two hours and five minutes in the White House, refusing to call them off while they roamed through the building … do you also believe that his dereliction of duty that afternoon is just “media bias”?