Donald Trump Unfollows Piers Morgan On Twitter After Coronavirus Criticism

Adrian Ovalle

It looks like President Donald Trump is finished with British broadcaster and media character Piers Morgan, his veteran ally since he won the 2007 edition of Trump’s reality show “Celebrity Apprentice.”

Trump is no longer following Morgan on the social media platform after the former CNN anchor consistently slammed the president– who he has actually formerly called his “good friend” — over his haphazard handling of the coronavirus pandemic.

Morgan on Sunday stated Trump was “failing the American people” and more concentrated on winning the 2020 election in an interview with CNN’s Brian Stelter.

Morgan doubled down in a scathing column for the Daily Mail released Friday.

In the editorial, he informed Trump to “SHUT THE F**K UP” after the president contemplated injecting disinfectant to eliminate COVID-19 (which has actually now eliminated more than 52,000 people in the U.S.) throughout Thursday’s White House job force upgrade.

It’s hard to picture a more silly thing for a President to state than openly drift an entirely dubious ‘idea’ like that which will undoubtedly make some Americans think having bleach inside them will treat the infection.

Yet that’s precisely what he did.

Trump on Friday strolled back the remarks, declaring he was being ironical.

However Morgan, in addition to lots of other public figures, didn’t purchase it:

Bullsh * t. All of us heard precisely what he stated. There was no sarcasm. https://t.co/KO5fIx1mOU

— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) April 24,2020

President Trump’s defence for drifting batsh * t insane claims that injecting bleach can eliminate #coronavirus is that he was being‘sarcastic’
FFS @realDonaldTrump – this is not a joke. 50,000 Americans are dead & & numerous more will pass away. Stop this rubbish & & buckle down.

— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) April 24,2020

Morgan validated Trump had unfollowed him on Twitter early Saturday:

UPDATE: President @realDonaldTrump has unfollowed me on Twitter, hours after I composed this @DailyMail column: pic.twitter.com/uRncON3Up7

— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) April 25,2020

Morgan carried out the first international TELEVISION interview with Trump at the World Financial Online Forum in Davos, Switzerland, in2018 He’s formerly stated he “genuinely” likes POTUS however has actually likewise explained him as “President Paranoid Snowflake.”

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