Kung Flu Fighting — If you missed the just ended presidential Covid-19 update, a silly person pretending to be a journalist snippily asked President Trump about a report that someone in the White House referred to the disease as the Kung Flu. The President asked her who. She didn’t know. The President asked her to repeat the phrase. She got flustered. The president was Kung Flu fighting. His quips were fast as lightning. It was a little bit frightening. But he fought with expert timing.
And for what it’s worth, we never heard the phrase until the silly person pretending to be a journalist brought it up. We think she coined a new name for the disease which will come into common use.
I heard the nickname used yesterday on the radio, but I don’t remember on whose show. It could have been Hugh Hewitt, Dennis Prager, Seb Gorka, Bobby Gunther Walsh (local LV show), or on Buck Sextion’s show. The discussion was running down the various names for the virus. “Kung Flu” was brought up, there was a chuckle, and then it was dismissed.
I’ve been calling it the Kung Flu for a week but, I haven’t been, “Kung Flu Fighting” until I read this story…so, there’s that. Thanks for the new line.
Obama’s VA hospital did a public service announcement video Kung flu fighting in 2013. I think he was the first president to use the term publicly that I can find.