The extraordinary briefing was Trump's most combative yet, as he lashed out at the media, state governors and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden.
"You know you are a fake, you know that, your whole network, the way you cover it is fake," Trump said to a reporter from CBS.
Cable news networks CNN and MSNBC cut away from the broadcast soon after, while Fox News continued to air the briefing.Trump attacked state governors for not having enough ventilators to deal with the surge in hospitalisations caused by the pandemic and claimed Biden had accused him of xenophobia for restricting travel from China in January.
Former Republican strategist Steve Schmidt, who served as a senior adviser to John McCain, tweeted: "This performance by Trump will be viewed with breathtaking fascination by Presidential scholars someday. At the start of the briefing Fauci said he had used "the wrong choice of words" in his weekend interview, saying it"was taken as a way that maybe somehow something was at fault here".
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