Donald Trump’s daily COVID-19 MAGA briefing on Thursday left experts in the medical field aghast as the president — with a serious demeanor — suggested that injecting disinfectant in our bodies could be a treatment to fight against the coronavirus pandemic that has killed over fifty-thousand Americans and left twenty-six million Americans unemployed as we shelter at home.
Trump presented that theory in such a serious manner that Lysol and Dettol maker Reckitt Benckiser PLC issued a statement on Friday morning to warn that “under no circumstance” should its disinfectant products be administered into the human body, through injection, ingestion or any other route.
On top of that crazy-time rhetoric, Trump additionally suggested that “light and heat” can cure the coronavirus, and that left Dr. Deborah Birx looking miffed, speechless, and bewildered by the president’s remarks. Just so we’re on the same page here, everyone took Trump’s comments seriously.
On Friday, though, Trump said he was being sarcastic when he suggested multiple times on Thursday that doctors should consider exposing the body to light and heat, as well as inject disinfectants into the bodies of people who contracted the potentially deadly disease to treat the coronavirus.
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“I was asking a sarcastic, and a very sarcastic question, to the reporters in the room about disinfectant on the inside. But it does kill it,” Trump insisted.
And honestly, if you can make out what he’s saying in the video below, I have to question your mental health. I just could not transcribe it since my English-to-Turnip translator is on the fritz.
Watch:
“I was asking a sarcastic, & a very sarcastic question, to the reporters in the room about disinfectant on the inside. But it does kill it.” — Trump tries to rewrite history, says he was speaking “sarcastically” when he mused about disinfectant injections being cure for Covid. pic.twitter.com/bWRU8EV6FZ
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 24, 2020
“It didn’t seem like it was coming off as sarcastic when he was talking and turning to Dr. Birx on the side,” Fox News anchor Bret Baier said after Trump’s backpedal was reported, according to The Hill.
Even if we gave Donald the benefit of the doubt, there is no room for sarcastic medical advice amid a national health crisis.
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