CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Since the outbreak of COVID-19, we’ve heard increasing reports of Asian Americans in communities across our country being targeted with messages of hate… These disgusting and racist acts must stop…
Trump’s attempts to deflect responsibility away from his own failures in addressing this pandemic by calling the coronavirus the ‘Chinese Virus’ during the White House press briefings stoked feelings of hatred and anger toward AAPIs [Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders].
The casual racism and regular xenophobia that we have seen from Trump and this Administration is a national scourge.”
-Joe Biden, “Statement by Vice President Joe Biden on Incidents of Racism Against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders,” medium.com, Apr. 10, 2020