CNN's Borger: 'Ridiculous' for Trump to say 'we're rooting against him in this crisis'

CNN's Gloria Borger railed against President Trump's claim that the media is rooting against him amid the coronavirus crisis in hopes it will be detrimental to his reelection prospects in November, with the network's chief political analyst calling the allegation "so ridiculous."

Borger was reacting to the president's remarks from a coronavirus task force briefing Wednesday when Trump was pressed on his comments about opening up parts of the country not heavily impacted by the pandemic in an effort to get the economy moving again.

“I think there are certain people who would like it to not open so quickly," Trump said. "I think there are certain people that would like it to do financially poorly because they think that would be very good as far as defeating me at the polls.”

“And I don't know if that is so, but I do think it’s so that there are people in your profession that would like that to happen, I think it's very clear,” he told a reporter.

"Gloria, you did hear during the course of the president's statement, his response to the questions. He went after the usual suspects, including the news media," anchor Wolf Blitzer said to Borger after playing the president's remarks.

"He went after the news media, making the point that we’d like to see them do poorly in the election, so we're rooting against him in this crisis, and that's so ridiculous," Borger argued. "We should almost not even dignify it, honestly."

Earlier this week, Trump introduced the possibility of getting the U.S. economy back up and running by Easter Sunday, which falls on April 12 this year.