God bless all of you who can watch even one second of Donald Trump’s daily briefings, which veer from “stupid Nazi rallies” to “medical advice from Josef Mengele.” Apparently, Thursday’s briefing quickly veered more towards a Mengele-style advice session as Trump decided to riff on what doctors were saying about sunlight and disinfectant, and ended up suggesting that A) sunshine and heat could kill the virus and B) disinfectant injected into the lungs could kill the virus.
President Donald Trump suggested the possibility of an “injection” of disinfectant into a person infected with the coronavirus as a deterrent to the virus during his daily briefing Thursday. Trump made the remark after Bill Bryan, who leads the Department of Homeland Security’s science and technology division, gave a presentation on research his team has conducted that shows that the virus doesn’t live as long in warmer and more humid temperatures. Bryan said, “The virus dies quickest in sunlight,” leaving Trump to wonder whether you could bring the light “inside the body.”
“There’s been a rumor that — you know, a very nice rumor — that you go outside in the sun or you have heat and it does have an effect on other viruses,” Trump said, before asking coronavirus task force coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx “to speak to the medical doctors to see if there’s any way that you can apply light and heat to cure.” Trump then asked Birx if she “ever heard of the heat and the light” having an impact on viruses. She responded, “Not as a treatment,” before Trump asked her again to look into it. Later, Trump again directed Birx to look into the potential for sunlight to be a cure.
“So supposing we hit the body with a tremendous — whether it’s ultraviolet or just a very powerful light — and I think you said that hasn’t been checked because of the testing,” Trump said, speaking to Bryan during the briefing. “And then I said, supposing you brought the light inside the body, which you can do either through the skin or some other way, and I think you said you’re going to test that, too…I would like you to speak to the medical doctors to see if there’s any way that you can apply light and heat to cure, you know, if you could. And maybe you can, maybe you can’t.”
After Bryan talked about experiments in which, he said, disinfectants like bleach and isopropyl alcohol quickly killed the virus, Trump mused about whether disinfectants could be used to treat the virus in humans: “I see the disinfectant that knocks it out in a minute, one minute. And is there a way we can do something like that by injection inside or almost a cleaning? As you see, it gets in the lungs, it does a tremendous number on the lungs, so it would be interesting to check that.”
Yes, Donald Trump literally stood at a podium inside the White House and suggested that Americans find some way to inject themselves with bleach to kill the virus. Every medical correspondent got on the air across every channel (well, not Fox News) to say that OF COURSE NO ONE SHOULD DO THIS. Please, MAGA peeps, do not inject yourselves with bleach. Do not cut yourselves open to expose your blood and organs to the sunshine. I cannot believe it needs to be said, but you know *someone* will probably try it. DO NOT.
After hearing presentation President Trump suggests irradiating people's bodies with UV light or injecting them with bleach or alcohol to deal with COVID19. pic.twitter.com/cohkLyyl9G
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) April 23, 2020
Photos courtesy of Avalon Red.
He is beyond horrifying. That being said every news network in the US that broadcasts him live are responsible for people’s deaths.
I mean people should have common sense to not listen to him but a lot of people are scared and where he is speaking with official who are authorities I can see how some are confused.
Only the medical professionals should be shown live.
I can’t even w/this moron. It’s why Fauci was absent from the presser. I understand wanting to keep your job but someone needs to take the mic & stating simply “do not listen to this moron as he will get you killed” Scarfy McScarfface has already sold her soul, apparently for scarves, so I see no help from her. Fauci, out from under the WH thumb, could then go on all media fronts & give the real medical assistance & information the country needs. Then get your job back from Biden after the election. Or join forces with him to help eradicate the planet from the terror of the Orange fraud.
Completely agree – someone take the mic from him and stop the madness.
I don’t think the onus is on Dr Fauci to denounce the Orange Idiot. I think Fauci has done admirable job and he probably feels he can do more good on the inside. I’m a Canadian so not fully familiar with how Drumph could be removed from office but seriously he does need to go. Like enough people aren’t dying of covid, now emergency room may be crowded with morons who’ve drunk them koolaid’?
Trump has removed all doubt about the U.S. and it’s alleged “exceptionalism.” The U.S. is a joke. The laughingstock of the world due to a corrupt, ignorant 🤡. It’s health care system doesn’t work and capitalism rules and money is all that matters.
I also agree. There are harmless nutters and there are dangerous nutters. This one falls in the latter category. I don’t know what it is – sad, bad, puzzling, unbelievable, horrifying… what? -that there are millions of people who look to him as their messiah and saviour, and will swallow anything that dribbles out of his lying, filthy mouth.
So, last evening I was in the middle of a big rewatch of Legends of Tomorrow, and I’m on season 1, so Wentworth Miller, and need I say more? I make the mistake of opening twitter between episodes, figuring I’ll catch up on news while I eat dinner.
THIS comes on. I seriously thought I must have fallen asleep while watching Legends, but why wasn’t I dreaming about Wentworth Miller, why would I be dreaming about this orange sstain telling people to inhale clorox? I even tweeted, am I awake? Does anybody see me?
How can any of this be real?
My husband told me about it last night and I didn’t think it was real. I told him there was no way he said that and to check his sources 🤦♀️
Trump knows his supporters don’t care.
At this point he is running a cult.
I see a Jim Jones 2.0. Why is the rep afraid of Article 25, time for him to go. If it was Barack he would have been gone 3 years ago. The country is under so much stress and this man is giving his sheep’s the recipe for suicide.
That was the first guy that came to mind and I’m not even American! Injecting/drinking poison because your leader tells you to. I can’t. In years to come, when they make movies about this sh*t, our kids will ask us how this was real. Anybody have an answer?
I was thinking of Jim Jones too and gave me shivers. I really hope somebody is monitoring his camps. I’m truly worried about those kids being subjected to his mad science.
Please USA citizens vote this trash away.
Tbh, I say let his supporters inject disinfectant into themselves. I say let them give it a shot!!!!
Sounds like natural selection to me. This stuff would go straight to the Darwin awards
OMG Gil, I think of the Darwin awards EVERY DAY now.
Same!
yeah, this.
“Please, MAGA peeps, do not inject yourselves with bleach. Do not cut yourselves open to expose your blood and organs to the sunshine. I cannot believe it needs to be said, but you know *someone* will probably try it. DO NOT.”
I’m leaning the other way, myself. Go ahead, MAGAts. Try it and see if it works!
@ Lurker
I have literally been stuffing my fists in my mouth to stop from shouting this from the rooftops! 🤐🤐🤐
Free his supporters, dammit! 🤬🤬🤬 Let them follow his instructions and suggestions……. They have God on their side, who will clearly direct the poison to *only* affect the virus and nothing else.
To all wise Trumpites:
Please. Listen. To. Trump.
Get that light in you….even if it means swallowing a lightbulb whole💡; gargle with that cup of double strength bleach; smoke out the virus with 10 packs of cigarettes a day; swallow that scorpion whole…….just know that as long as it’s a Donald Trump suggestion and you are his supporter, it is guaranteed to work like a biblical miracle. 👌👌👍
Leave the rest of us God-less sinners to listen to the faithless, Godless Scientists. We deserve them, while you all very much deserve your King & Saviour, Donald Trump.
My first thought was yes please, let all his followers try it. But then they’ll wind up taking up valuable hospital beds and morgue spaces that are already in short supply.
Haha! Glad it’s not just me. I say go for it, MAGAts! Do it now, before you breed again.
Why waste space in the morgue? They should line up the body bags in front of all his fleabag hotels! Some protestors already did that in DC!
Except they won’t. They know he’s insane. They know he’s not fit to lead. But they like that he gives them be vocal about their self-perceived superiority.
Except some of them give the “cure” to their innocent children as Well 🙁
That’ll flatten the curve 😉👍
Jim Jones Mao cult of personality. All of these evil people talk rational people into doing things that are stupid. Mao is melting away in his public massoleum. One day karma will call in the bets for this turd too.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10666840/mediaviewer/rm1634114817
@Ali
I’m afraid you’re wrong. His supporters do care. You see, they are the chosen ones and their Lord and Savior will protect them against the virus by the power of his holy sacraments – bleach and bullshit. We, the unfaithful, will be cast down to hell on the judgment day. Or rather, we were already cast down to hell on election day. We godless heathens who believe in “science” will be proven wrong once his faithful souls ascend to Trump Towers to live forever in a covid-free Paradise, stocked with PPE seized from blasphemers who worship at the Temple of Medicine.
The maker of Lysol is also out there telling people not to do it because you know someone who does it will try and sue them. I’m just baffled that a grown a$$ man would even suggest that injecting/drinking disinfectants is even a possibility. I wish someone with balls would stand up, on air, to his bs. Hahn explained it away as being a question that someone would ask their doctor about. I cannot believe the gymnastics these people do to make sure they don’t upset Trump.
Trump is desperate for a miracle cure because he knows he won’t get re-elected if the economy does not come back.
BINGO!
This all day long! I made a similar point with a family member, that he’s in full-on desperation mode because all he cares about is getting re-elected (and I think he also fantasizes about being the “hero” or “savior”) and he knows that with each passing day of people getting sick & dying, and people being unemployed & hanging on by a thread (or not all) his chances of re-election get less & less.
FFS, can people stop dissuading his supporters from following his suggestions? If anyone is moronic enough to still be following this man at this stage, then they deserve to get all the *benefits* accruing to them as well, in spades.
Bella, my concern is more with the innocent kids that might have whacko parents that will poison them because of this. Or adults who can’t care for themselves – innocent people can still suffer because of the actions of the idiotic supporters, and that is scary.
Mac for the win! You are spot on!
Plus when the economy was good he could golf all day and hold his stupid rallies. Now he has to “work” or at least appear to.
Then he should open up testing, provide PPE and get the hell out of the way. Take Dickless ken with him.
Exactly. His numbers are falling and his stupid ideas are being ridiculed. He is up there like a child thinking hey how about kill it with light?!? Would that fix it? Vile disgusting useless man
Killing people is a proven method to jump starting an economy. It’s been endorsed by all the major economists in the world. The biggliest economists. Trump is a businessman, you know. He knows what he’s talking about. That’s why his hotels have been doing so well. He stuffs the rooms with corpses and charges them per night. If they don’t have the money to pay for their stay, the assets from their estate have to be seized – it’s only fair. Those corpses, you would not believe how much room service they demand. /s
I have to wonder if he heard about surfactant somewhere and got confused.
there is so little being said about surfactant, you really have to know what you’re looking for to find info on who’s doing small trials (and, sadly, scale up to manufacture enough for adult size lungs would be a huge issue). I can’t imagine anyone in his inner circle talking about it in front of him, unless one of the Fox anchors had a child/grandchild that was a premie whose RDS was treated with it and even then he’d probably be suggesting we all gargle or drink soap, wouldn’t he?
part of me wishes the MAGA folks would just start huffing bleach and be done with it, but I’d hate to add to the burden our HCPs are already dealing with
If he meant Surfactant, he is irresponsible for not being more careful. And some medical expert should have stepped up and clarified immediately.
This!
The MAGAts on Twitter of course are defending him, saying what he really meant are different types of already proven treatments, blah, blah, blah, but just didn’t explain it well.
Here’s the thing. My governor talks every day, using big, scientific words and easy to understand explanations about data, and makes his meaning clear because he is a coherent and sensitive human. And not an addled, self-centered dolt who can’t even be bothered to try to learn (or simply doesn’t have the capacity to learn) anything about anything, let alone try to explain it with any modicum of intelligence.
Ever noticed how often his followers have to come on line to say “what he really means” was so and so, or he “was just joking” ect. I’m asking….. can’t he express himself without the red hats who have never him have to try clean up his mess. Aren’t they ashamed to know their leader cannot but to sentences together. What is wrong with the maggots.🥴🤡
Yeah, I tell those MAGAts: if he hasn’t learned to say what he means by 73 years old, he shouldn’t be President. End of.
Esmom- how In the hell could anyone interpret what he said as meaning different types of treatment? That’s not even reasonable at a logical stretch. He said: “I see the disinfectant that knocks it out in a minute, one minute. And is there a way we can do something like that by injection inside or almost a cleaning?” There’s no alternative reading of that. Trumpsters are just living in an alternate reality.
On FB, I had a Trumpster insist that medical professionals are against us wearing masks because research has shown they get us sicker. I’m like, what medical professionals and research are you reading? I get back a link to an anti-lockdown article by a personal training fitness company. No real research cited in it. Except a non peer reviewed study that specifically said, “not to be used to determine safety guidelines”
Same person also insisted that lockdown extends the virus- a scientific impossibility.
Oh and insists the experts are wrong cause their models were inaccurate- you know, cause those models caused us to lockdown to prevent the models from coming true, so now it didn’t come true, the experts were lying.
I swear, I’m afraid for humanity.
The mental gymnastics of these people are amazing. Just blows my mind.
I know, Rapunzel. One guy even posted a graphic of some kind of lung treatment that he said was what Trump was trying to explain.
I’m afraid for humanity, too. Although someone pointed out that a lot of these idiots on Twitter might be trolls. Let’s hope so because if they aren’t we are indeed doomed.
Breitbart is saying he didn’t say that. You know, despite actual clips of him saying it.
Esmom- I swear, the semantics that Trumpsters use to parse what he said into something else are insane. I come again back to what I posted above: if I need to be told what you meant, every time you speak, then you aren’t clear enough to be President. And dang it, do no Trumpsters care that our President should be putting more careful thought into his words? What low expectations they have.
No, Trumpsters, he did not say to drink or inject bleach. But he asked a question: is there a way to do that? Which some people will, no doubt, take upon themselves to try and answer. So the implied meaning: we need to try injecting/ingesting disinfectant. See, Trumpsters, implied meaning is a thing. Sometimes you don’t need to actually say something directly to say it indirectly.
And let’s not forget, even if he was just asking questions, they were stupid ones that anyone above age 5 should know the answer to: No!
Good Lord, these morons. The fact nobody immediately stepped up and said, “stop rambling, you fool!” is astounding. And the medical experts who say there should be ashamed.
Oh my god. I can not believe this is our reality.
I read someone defending him by saying he did not ask people to drink it. I wanted to comment “I’m sure you’ll say the same if Obama or Hillary said the exact same thing.”. But stopped myself. There was no point talking to a fool.
There really isn’t. They’ve had 4 years and a global pandemic to see the reality of their president. If they didn’t do it by now, the only difference your comment will make is getting you even more frustrated.
Plenty of sunlight in Italy and Spain but it didn’t seem to stop the virus.
Meanwhile, his appointee William Bryan had to rush out a statement that sunlight and heat kill the coronavirus, which blithering idiot and murderous monster Princess Nagini shared in defense of Daddy.
Clorox and Lysol have had to release statements warning against ingestion of their products. It’s a sad day when Rob Gronkowski is smarter than a US President. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=beiHkynt3Tg
Also, plenty of sunshine in Florida, Arizona, California, Mexico the Caribbean and they still have Covid 19 patients. I’m putting in a bet before next week one of the red hats will drink some disinfectant or inject disinfectant and end up in the hospital.
Hawaii, too, and we’ve still got COVID-19. And the Mengele comment sent a chill through me. Somewhere in the US, out of sight, somebody will be ordered to try these ‘treatment’ methods, and the patients will be the vulnerable–the old, the poor, children.
@ BeanieBean – yes, like the higher death rates in people who were treated with Trump’s hydroxychloroquine. For the Lysol comment, a part of me think if people are dumb enough to take medical advice from Donald Trump, then it’s just Darwinism. But then I think about the ones who don’t have any say in it, and that just makes Trump’s comments even more disgusting.
@BeanieBean you forgot to add that those old, poor, vulnerable people will most likely have brown or black skin…..maybe even using those pesky people that came to the US for refuge.
This “man” trump is dangerous . he has blood on his hands. I pray he’s not reelected! I feel like I’m trapped in an episode of the Twilight Zone
Anything to re-direct the news cycle to himself while avoiding reality. Brief news headline this am, Biden stating Drumpf is attempting to delay the election. I hope we can rely on our governors, mayors, those in congress who continue to seek a cautious approach.
I was happy to see that the absentee ballot applications for the June election (delayed from May) here in Indiana clearly say at the top that nobody has to check off any reason for the application this year. If they do the same for November, this means we have absentee ballots for all. Instant vote by mail capability.
Check your absentee ballot info in your states to see if the same is true for you. If not, really push for it. If Indiana can do it, any state can. It’s an easy way to have a safe election in November using an existing system. This will greatly reduce traffic at the polls and also coincidentally reduce the ability of Republicans to do their usual manipulation of machine votes to shift votes for the Democrat to the Republican (as has been happening selectively since at least 2004). And also scuttle any Trump plans to disrupt the election.
Putin is probably laughing his ass off right now.
He always has been.
Probably gave himself a three day hangover celebrating when Trump won.
Putin is a genius is what he is.
He really is. Hes very good at his job, so to speak.
It really feels like all of the clowns Putin has installed as heads of state around the world — in the U.S., U.K., Philippines, Brazil, Ukraine, Czech Republic, etc. — are really just one big clown show that exists for Putin’s entertainment. And enrichment, and aggrandizement of power, of course. But let’s face it: mostly for Putin’s entertainment. So, whoever he feels comfortable having a laugh in front of (and let’s face it, that may be no one — he may spend most of his private time completely alone), I hope he is laughing aplenty. There should be literally one person in the entire world who is enjoying all of this.
This kind of idiocy comes straight from a man who did drugs for decades. Next he will be touting cocaine and meth as miracle cures.
‘Please, MAGA peeps, do not inject yourselves with bleach. Do not cut yourselves open to expose your blood and organs to the sunshine. I cannot believe it needs to be said, but you know *someone* will probably try it. DO NOT.’
In 3, 2. 1…
I mean, f*ck him for his callous disregard for human life and any sort of decency, but for anybody who actually tries this, I question how they made it to adulthood.
Me too, and yet two of his followers already drank fish tank cleaner because it has hydroxychloroquine in it. The husband died. These were not young people, they were like 60, a married couple. I don’t know how they made it that far, I really don’t.
It’s amazing that these people function in the world. Like, drive cars and navigate on roads. I live in central Florida and have been driving extra cautiously for the last 3 years because I now know that at least half the population is stooopid af.
Every morning when I wake up and read the news coming out of the White House my jaw drops a little further. With such gems as the above (would Trump like to test his theories on himself, I wonder? Please?) I’m going to be able to unhinge it like a coelacanth.
You first, Trump!
That’s right, show us how it works!
Wait, wait, wait! Let me grab the champagne first!
Exactly what I twitted to him, @Becks1….show us how it’s done, please. Show us so we can be sure to get it right.
Thank goodness I snagged that last bottle of Lysol before anybody else got it. I’m set.
Meanwhile, watch Dr. Birx’s face crumble.
https://twitter.com/travisakers/status/1253505328387416065?s=21
Yeah, I didn’t need a closeup for that, you could see the thousand-yard stare from a thousand yards. She couldn’t look at him!
I’m waiting for someone in these briefings to finally get fed up and mouth off. The Emperor has no clothes.
It would be a mistake to humanize her. She is a complicit hack. https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1253541128848183296
Hardly humanizing. It’s just satisfying to see a tinge of horror on the face of one of his hacks.
what i struggle to understand though – why do these people keep becoming complicit? By now we’ve seen times and again life-long careers going up in flames in a matter of months, sometimes weeks – they can’t say they haven’t been warned. Their days in the limelight next to him are numbered, but they still can preserve their dignity and stand up to his stupidity. Crawling up his ass won’t help them – Kelly, Bolton, Nielsen, Scaramucci, anyone? My question is – why? Trump will be gone eventually, but the stain on their résumés will outlast him.
OMG, that first comment. Thank you Jerusha
” The problem is, disinfectants are a gateway drug. It’s a slippery slope to WD40.”
Hahahaha! WD 40 is the best. That was so funny
I like the one with the music from Curb Your Enthusiasm over it.
I would feel bad for her but she’s letting a buffoon say stupid things instead of stopping him.
Hey, it’s a free country. If that’s what Trump and his supporters really want to do…
my thought exactly. They should drink it. Drink it, inject it, give it to your relatives. Organize a Lysol party.
I thought this was a joke when I read the headline. I should,d have known better. Science is crying.
I watch the briefings everyday because I pay attention to Fauci and to Brix….somewhat. plus, it’s a great way to laugh, and the more “viewers” he gets, the longer he exposes just how unsuitable he is. He is actually losing his base this way. Keep it up.
I also usually keep the briefings on as background noise. I was checking emails, not really paying attention when I heard him ask about injecting disenfectant and uv light. My jaw literally dropped.
My brain literally hurts after reading this. To hear something like that from one of the most powerful men in the world, knowing how many people believe him, it’s more than appalling.
If his followers are injecting bleach that’s just Darwinism at its finest. Less people to vote for him.
I was horrified watching this. Still am. Went on Twitter to gauge the reaction. Found this: https://twitter.com/sarahcpr/status/1253474772702429189
I feel guilty trying to find levity during these dark times but running out of ways to cope.
Stay safe, fellow celebitchies. And, quite obviously, don’t drink disinfectant or cook yourself in a tanning bed
Perfect lip synch!🤣🤣🤣
It’s so perfect. I’ve watched it about 5x!
Perfection *chef’s kiss*
Omg thank you
When someone does this and dies, he should be charged with murder. I mean, Manson didn’t *actually* kill people, he just encouraged others to.
Just like a man! Love ‘em and leave ‘em. Hydroxy must feel so used.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EWVUGR0VAAAOebq.jpg
You have to laugh to keep from crying. But in all seriousness, it’s not funny or a game anymore. People gave to get registered and get out and vote Blue in November. We can’t take another 4 years of this insanity.
If it requires wearing a hazmat-type suit out of garbage bags, I’m voting. We have to show up and try, try again (voting blue).
This is one of the main news all over the world….my country’s newspapers have all run this piece of news and… Well, he should try it.. Would be a blessing..
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At this point I am so tired. I am tired of waking up every day to see what horrors await me. I’m tired of reading about what idiotic things Donald Trump did because it’s not a joke to me anymore. And I joke about everything. But I cannot fathom that the leader of our country is telling people, Hey, why not try injecting bleach to like clean stuff?, and that nothing can be done. That’s where we are at as a country. Nothing can be done. Dems tried their damnedest to remove him from power and it didn’t work. Now Trump can go live on tv and give medical advice and bitch about the economy and nothing can be done.
The Republican powers in my state have reopened things. Nothing can be done. I actually thought about writing my state representatives but I’ve done that before about gun control and they didn’t care. It isn’t about saving lives or helping anyone, it isn’t even about power. It is a bunch of old white men sticking it to people because we had the audacity to elect Barack Obama. So they figure, eff it, just let people die, reopen hair salons and beaches and whatever else, because it’s what the Democrats don’t want. And I’m saying Democrats because party lines have never been so clear. Republicans are saying it’s a conspiracy or China did it in purpose or it’s just a bad flu, and Democrats are dying trying to save lives and ration ventilators.
It feels pointless to be angry anymore. People are not going to listen to sense or reason, so why bother. Millions will die and all I feel like we can do is watch.
After almost 4 years of literal insanity, a corrupt congress and one of the worst human beings ever to live as our president, I totally get what you are saying. I feel like you, that I’m standing in front of the world’s largest dumpster fire and I’ll I can do is watch it burn. Jeez.
I feel like the the US has entered the twilight zone.
The U.S. entered the Twilight Zone back in November 2016. It’s been spiraling down into a black hole ever since and escaping from it is going to be a monumental effort.
I had already watched him riff about heat and sun being very interesting. Later, I saw a tweet mentioning a Lysol martini, and I thought it had to be parody. Surely he had not suggested disinfectants entering the body, but once again, I was wrong.
Rod could not have envisioned a script as bizarre and long-lasting as we’re witnessing right now.
Sometimes reality is stranger than fiction.
What on earth is this pillock on about now? Bleach kills cancer cells (in a petri dish), that doesn’t mean I’m about to start chugging Domestos with my cornflakes.
I wonder how many people will die because of this prize prat.
Please. Let them.
And you know, if (when) someone dies from doing this, he won’t care one bit. Won’t feel one bit of shame or guilt. He’ll shrug and say “not my fault” and move on without a second thought.
If his supporters start chugging back glasses of lysol…they only have themselves (and him to blame). I’m so sick of their nonsense on twitter and to be honest I really think he’s trying to thin out his base. He doesn’t need them anymore because Russia can hack the numbers.
He’s actually putting Jim Jones to shame. Unbelievable.
I watched a clip because a band director I know shared the table as a way to advocate for Summer Band Camp. Band, an activity where you are constantly blowing breath thru things until you empty the condensation out. No thanks. But the graphic I saw didn’t say Covid19 specifically, it had the virus grouping???
So apparently, now that we’ve all learned to wash our hands, we need a refresher course on the lethal nature of disinfectants.
I told my Trump hating dad what Trump said.
Dad (incredulous): he musta been joking.
Me: no, totally serious.
Dad: well, he can be the Guinea Pig.
Rapunzel, your dad is spot on!
How about the guy he brought back because Trump said the man was misquoted and did not say that October would be difficult??? Trump actually repeated this before bringing him to the podium. The poor man walked up to the podium with dread and said: what I said was that October would be complex due to flu and COVID19.
I guess Complex is too complex a word for Trump to comprehend. Or maybe it’s just to difficult to comprehend big words.
Let them do it.
They might not believe in evolution and natural selection,
But natural selection may not be a bad thing here. If you support president make the rich richer- by all means/ follow his medical advice.
The world might end up a better place.
I’d say it can’t get worse, but it gets worse constantly.
But the ER nurses and doctors will have to deal with them and they’re already overstretched.
Totally agree LP. This is going to put more of a burden on our already strained hospitals and ERs.
No, they’ll be DOA. It’s fine. Don’t need to waste an ambulance – just bring around a dump truck to shovel the bodies in.
(Sorry, I am reacting with hatred and rage towards these potential bleachheads.)
When is he going to drop dead already?
I KNOW! I’ve never had such feelings of hatred for another human being.
🙌🙌
We all need to decide on a time to do a mind meld and concentrate really, really hard.
I’m ready. I really am. I think that all of us together have enough rage to work!
JFC.
It’s why we have fevers…and didn’t experts find that quite soon after the body starts fighting the virus, and becoming feverish, the infected person became non-contagious? That’s why the asymptomatic period is so dangerous!
Trump is a man with ADD, jumping from one miracle cure to the next, so that after this debacle is done and his feet are to the fire he can tout all his recommendations, and crow about how hard he worked to help his country… 🙄
I doubt that the fever makes people non-contagious. The fever in COVID-19 can go on for weeks, but they still need to be quarantined. Fever shows the body is fighting the virus but doesn’t mean instant victory. They still test positive.
I mean if you want to drink an amount of bleach that won’t kill you just drink your tap water. A small amount of chlorine bleach deemed ingestable is in all tap water to ensure it stays free from bacteria when it’s traveling through pipes to you.
But that’s not the recommended protocol. You’re supposed to inject, not drink. It’s most effective when it goes directly into your bloodstream, that way it can help your immune system fight the virus directly. In fact, I’ve heard from Dr. President that the bleach boosts the production of antibodies. Having to absorb the bleach through the stomach is just inefficient. /s
Good! I hope all of his most extreme nazi followers try it first
His insane , dangerous and totally ridiculous comments should signal that this man should be committed.
I think the drs should have gotten up to refute immediately. If he fired them at least they would go down as heros for protecting the American public.
Where Are the former presidents?? Certainly this is reason to break protocol and speak out.
I fear for all of us!!!
Some people are comparing this to Jonestown. What I thought of is a scene of the movie Downfall, about Hitler’s last days in the bunker. Goebbels and his wife commit suicide, but first poison their children. Despite sensing that something’s wrong, the oldest child can’t stop it.. If people decide to ingest snake oil themselves, that’s one thing. But what about vulnerable populations that have no choice? That doctor in Texas announced that he was testing hydroxychloroquine on residents of a nursing home without getting their consent.
Oh, that last sentence of Coco’s is making me cry for them.
And his lil’ cultists insist that he didn’t say that! Or if he did say it, that wasn’t what he meant, or even that he was just trying to be funny. If the latter was the case, his delivery sucked ass. He wasn’t trying to be funny at all; he was dead serious. And then they trot out the accusation that “these people are sick.” Really? Classic projection.
People are already dying from drinking rubbing alcohol. And, I don’t know why this got to me, but, ‘very nice rumor’? WTH?
We’re stuck in an absurdist comedy, aren’t we? How else can this be happening?
I had an odd fantasy while watching the clip of Trump rambling about ingesting disinfectant to kill the virus – Roddy Piper in all of his kilted glory putting Trump in a sleeper-hold and carrying him off for good while intelligent and thoughtful leaders take over. Sadly, Roddy passed away five years ago.
I don’t know, my mind is going to weird places at the moment.
Someone up thread mentioned Jim Jones. I agree. We could start hearing reports of Trump supports committing accidental suicide from attempting one of his “cures”.
One survivor will be quoted as saying “But President Trump said I could beat the virus by flaying myself before stepping into a tanning booth!”
Generations from now as they’re being tucked into bed, children will ask in earnest “Did the President really say to swallow bleach so you wouldn’t get sick?”
The support this man has reminds me of the song “He Is” by the Swedish rock band Ghost. It’s about worshiping the devil because he represents insurrection and spite while standing on a precipice.
Would you believe our Weatherman on a CBS affiliate stated on LIVE TV last night at 11 pm that UV light, heat and humidity IMPEDES COVID-19?!? OMFG!!! I wrote to the CBS station and our Governor, along with telling the weatherman to shut his IGNORANT mouth… I swear I’m going to die of a stroke with all this BULLSHIT
IKR??!! I feel like i’m going to stroke out some days too. I had no idea how many racist stupid people there are
The virus is relatively fragile outside the body. UV irradiation (UV light) does break it down in air and on surfaces. The germicidal property of UV light has been used to sanitize for a long time. Heat will also be destructive at high enough temperatures (obviously above body temperature). Don’t know about humidity. Soap and water will inactivate any virus on bags and packages, so you could use that to wipe down something if concerned.
Please don’t swallow a UV light bulb, though…
In high school, I once drank a teaspoon if bleach because a trusted relative told me it could cure many of my ailments. It didn’t kill me, duh! (chlorine is similar to salt that it is generally safe to ingest in miniscule amount) but It was an awful experience if you tell me it could cure coronavirus, I’d rather get the virus. Recently, it was on the news that a religious group were selling industrial strength bleach as a panacea and they made huge money from their devotees. I know Trump isn’t taken seriously but he is still a person of authority just like Goop, Dr.Oz and Phil. Somewhere people will believe them.
Oh silly people — he says he was just being *sarcastic*, dontchaknow?
https://twitter.com/markknoller/status/1253726155162730503
He’s just being funny during these press conferences, a little levity to brighten your days during these horrible times. Lighten up! /s
Of course he is. Trump is so funny, he’s the funniest guy on the planet you know….he coulda been a contender for the best late night show EVER.
Will someone PLEEEEZE wrap him up in a white coat with buckles and march him off to the psych ward?!?!?!?
I still get so very angry that out of all the competent people in the U.S., this complete careless, ignorant, fool is our president.
Go here, read this:
https://www.salon.com/2020/04/23/yale-psychiatrist-bandy-lee-lockdown-protesters-resemble-child-soldiers-and-urban-gangs/
Excerpt:
“You may have noticed that the more the president abuses his “base,” the more they idolize him and obey what he says. He frames risking lives in service of him, so as to prop up his ruined economy and increase his re-election prospects, as “liberation” — and they come out in defiance of their own protection, demanding “choice.” He is practicing his “total authority” and putting his armed troops in the streets. We would be mistaken to believe he will leave, or even let a losing election happen in the first place. Abuse of the mind is the worst kind, for you make people do what you wish against their own interests, and even extreme physical abuse becomes possible. He is not only getting away with shooting someone on Fifth Avenue, but a whole massacre.”
This is Dr. Bandy Lee of Yale, and she says the only way to stop this is to get rid of him.
Thank you marjorie, that was excellent.
He has probably heard the details of real medical procedures. Those of us who have had various kinds of scoping done know you can get light into and even take video inside a person. I got treated to a really interesting tour of my wrecked digestive system a couple of years ago. Acid reflux damage. Polyps. There was more drama in my gut than on Game of Thrones. Lol.
But only someone with the mind of a child would make that leap to thinking we can safely use germ killing UV light and apply disinfectant internally. Maybe we aren’t far from being able to do something like that for a very narrow confined problem. But to kill a virus whose attacks are systemic? He’s got quite the imagination there.
What he was really saying is “I just like to get up here and babble because I have a nice voice. It’s a very very soothing voice. It makes me happy and the American people, and we have a very great people you know, it makes the American people happy when I have good news to tell them. Very happy. And the good news is that I really can blow sunshine up your butt and it will cure the China virus. Because light and the humidity from my breath kills the virus.”
That really is pretty much what’s happening with him up there babbling his appalling ignorance for all to see.
This was the funniest comment I found on the Twitter thread that someone linked to:
“The problem is, disinfectants are a gateway drug. It’s a slippery slope to WD40.”
Heh. That was a really good paraphrase 🙂
I think he owes it to us to demonstrate it’s effectiveness by trying it himself.
While I don’t want anyone to die needlessly from this stupid advice he gives, it could, in fact, be Darwinism at its finest.
Yup, this is the exact same moron who was tweeting “helpful” suggestions to the Paris fire brigade when Notre Dame was on fire.
He is worse than useless – he’s a mouthy self-involved uncaring willfully ignorant moron who thinks he’s a genius. His words and actions have also led to probably thousands of avoidable deaths. And it’s not getting better. His leadership curve looks like the US Coronavirus deaths curve, or the US unemployment #s curve, only upside down. Every day, he goes from unbelievably bad to even worse.
And every single person standing next to him, from Bobble-head Pence, to Dr Brix, to the My Pillow guy, is complicit in this dumbster fire*. I’m giving Dr Fauci a pass for the moment, because he seems to be trying to publicly counteract Trump’s idiotic statements whenever and wherever he can.
*dumbster was a typo, but it fits so I’m leaving it.
Yes. I believe the good Dr. Is walking a fine line between servicing the people and disappearing, and im thankful for his effort.
Between this and Chris Cuomos wife and her bleach, I fear for the country even more than before. Because people are stupid enough to believe them, and then the already overloaded healthcare system will have to deal with these idiots.
This article was (t*-hater, here) a good public safety measure because he has completely adopted the cadences of televised preachers and the folks eat it up like gravy. I want to be careful regarding my opinion on the following, but you probably saved a handful of lives telling people to literally not inject their lungs with bleach at home, and i guess thats a good thing.
I dont know my county anymore, and I’ll leave it at that. Thank you for your political articles and the writing thereof.
Reminds me of another cult leader the reverend Jim Jones.
I’d pay to watch him inject himself with Lysol.
So would I! 😀
Imbleach POTUS!!! Lysol I have to say.
After you DT!