Trump news – live: Outrage over president's George Floyd comments as he says coronavirus 'gift from China'

Outrage quickly followed Donald Trump's comments on George Floyd during a press conference at to announce 2.5m new jobs to the US economy in May, saying that he would be "looking down right now" on a great thing happening for our country.

After Trump's on-going feud with former employees, ex-chief-of-staff John Kelly fired back to support Jim Mattis and say the president would either fire or push people so hard they would resign.

Coronavirus, meanwhile, is still happening, with the World Health Organisation revising its guidance on face-masks and the CDC projecting more than 127,000 deaths by 27 June.

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