US President Donald Trump has continued his trend of confronting reporters telling a female journalist to keep her voice down when she questioned his response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
On Sunday CBS reporter Weijia Jiang asked Trump why he did not tell America about the threat COVID-19 posed earlier.
"You should've warned them the virus was spreading like wildfire through the month of February instead of holding rallies with thousands of people. Why did you wait so long to warn them?" Jiang asked.
Trump interrupted her twice to ask which organisation she was with. Jiang has covered the White House for nearly two years and travelled with the President several times, according to USA Today.
Once he was told who she worked for Trump pointed out his travel restrictions from China which came into effect in late January.
However the restrictions only applied to Chinese nationals, not Americans returning from China which Jiang pointed out.
"Nice and easy. Nice and easy. Just relax," the President told her.
"So do you acknowledge you didn't think it would spread? Jiang asked.
"Keep your voice down please, keep your voice down" Trump snapped back.
The spat is not the first Trump has had with Jiang. In April he told her she "ought to be ashamed of herself" for asking a question about his son-in-law Jared Kushner in what Trump deemed to be a "nasty tone".
The President frequently berates reporters who question his COVID-19 response at his press conferences.
In the past he has called reporters "fake news" and told them they are "nasty", "terrible" and "disgraceful".
The United States currently has 794,651 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 42,486 people have died.
