Trump broadly claims Chinese-Americans are 'VERY angry' with China, but some Asian-Americans lawmakers say 'we are very angry at you'

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• Multiple Asian-American lawmakers disputed President Donald Trump's claim that Asian Americans were all "VERY angry" at China.
• Trump's tweet came one day after a tense exchange with a Chinese-American news reporter.
• "We are angry that people are dying and our country is #1 in cases and deaths due to a chaotic and uncoordinated response," entrepreneur and former 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang replied.
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Multiple Asian-American lawmakers sounded off in protest after President Donald Trump suggested they were all under the same ideological spectrum and angry at China's obfuscation of its coronavirus response, one day after his remarks at a Chinese-American news reporter was alleged to have racially-charged undertones.

Trump on Tuesday morning tweeted that Asian-Americans were "VERY angry at what China has done to our Country, and the World," appearing to refer to the Chinese government's history of concealing the early stages of the coronavirus that eventually evolved into a pandemic.

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