From the Politifact article:
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"And then I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in one minute. And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning, because you see it gets in the lungs and it does a tremendous number on the lungs, so it’d be interesting to check that, so that you’re going to have to use medical doctors with, but it sounds interesting to me. So, we’ll see, but the whole concept of the light, the way it kills it in one minute. That’s pretty powerful."
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Yeah, the article is fair, but, if you watch the video, it's very obvious he was out of his league in regards to anything to do with virus treatments.
Best article I've come across for relatively unbiased coverage of Trump's latest debacle.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...-tipping-point
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From almost the moment the words left Trump’s mouth it was clear some sort of damage limitation was needed.
But, as shock and amazement traversed the globe, it was slow in coming. When it did arrive, on Friday lunchtime, it was a clean-up attempt that clearly could have gone better. At a White House event Trump tried on Friday to justify his dangerous comments, falsely claiming that he was “asking a question sarcastically to reporters”.
On Friday, even as the US death toll topped 50,000 and the grim milestone of 1 million coronavirus cases grows nearer, Trump tried to make what critics saw as a desperate and dishonest U-turn.
“I was asking a question sarcastically to reporters like you just to see what would happen,” the president, sitting at the Resolute desk in the Oval Office, told reporters as he signed emergency funding legislation.
“When 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, and it would kill it on the hands and that would make things much better. That was done in the form of a sarcastic question to a reporter.”
But video of the briefings clearly demonstrated otherwise. There was no hint of sarcasm and Trump’s attempts to rewrite the immediate past were undermined by the evidence just a simple Google search away.
When Trump posed the question about the efficacy of disinfectant injections, he had turned to his right and was looking in the direction of Bill Bryan, the acting homeland security undersecretary for science and technology, and Deborah Birx, the coronavirus taskforce coordinator.
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Again, he is not stupid but he is so sloppy and addle-brained with his remarks, he does a remarkable job portraying a stupid person. Trump supporters will try to explain this away or stick to the clearly false narrative that Trump was being
sarcastic. I mean, you can see for yourself in the video, he was making these remarks earnestly and checking with Bryan every few seconds. If the pandemic team were not so afraid to be bashed by Trump, maybe someone could have reined him in. I've yet to see that happen, even though it would be to his benefit. I won't argue for a second that the media will try to make him look bad but he's doing a bangup job on his own, he doesn't really need much help.