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demmiblue

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Fri May 15, 2026, 07:35 AM Friday

Week from hell now sees CBS anchor booted by hotel boss 'appalled' by China coverage [View all]

CBS Evening News anchor Tony Dokoupil's disastrous attempt to cover Donald Trump's state visit to China hit yet another wall Thursday — this time as the MAGA-friendly network got out of their makeshift broadcast studio by hotel management unhappy with the on-air coverage of the China-Taiwan conflict.

Dokoupil had already been forced to report on Trump's Beijing summit from Taipei — more than 1,000 miles away from where Trump and Chinese President Xi Jingping were meeting — after failing to secure a broadcast visa to enter mainland China. But according to Status, the setbacks didn't stop there.

A Status source that the hotel's manager that "was appalled" by the way which Dokoupil discussed Taiwan on air while Trump was sitting across from the Chinese president. The hotel subsequently barred him from using his room as a broadcast studio.

Dokoupil then moved his operation to Taipei's Liberty Square — and addressed the debacle directly on Thursday night's broadcast while reporting on the broader climate of fear surrounding China's territorial claims over that nation.

https://www.rawstory.com/cbs-dokoupil/


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