President Trump claims injecting people with disinfectant could treat coronavirus

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Cites takeda · 2020-09 · on “Covid vaccine makers commit to not seek approval until complete Phase III trials”

It's quite amazing how people twist to pretzels to explain some ridiculous statements by the president, because no way person that I support would be this stupid. Then you have people posting pictures of "UV infusions" and others saying it was sarcasm. Like if sarcasm in that context makes that statement any better. Besides, no matter how you slice this, that wasn't a sarcasm[1]. There is a reason why his daily briefings ended abruptly after that statement. I might disagree with Republican policies, but I can understand them, but we are currently are being led by a moron. People in his administration are putting guardrails to ensure what he is doing isn't completely insane, but as more and m

Cites CorrectHorseBat · 2021-12 · on “North Korea's Loch Ness Monster (2016)”

>You have many people who believe Trump told his supporters to drink bleach in other to fight coronavirus. Indeed, he merely suggested to inject bleach in order to fight the coronavirus [1]. Of course afterwards he said that was sarcastic, but even if that was true it's not really much better. [1] [this video]

Cites bamboozled · 2024-07 · on “Trump injured but ‘fine’ after attempted assassination at rally”

For example, in Covid he required the States to make their own rules, He also suggested injecting bleach and sunlight might wipe out COVID in the body [1]. Federal institutions and health organizations had to warn people not to drink bleach after that, oh man. In my opinion, any leader who actually cared about solving the problem would try understand basic things better or delegate to someone who does. If anything it proves he is an authoritarian. Do you think Kim Jong Un actually tries to solve any problem for his people, or just bullshits about it to stay in power / popular with those who matter? You might see it as some type of freedom preserving move to let states do whatever they want,

Critical gridlockd · 2020-08 · on “Mitochondria may hold keys to anxiety and mental health”

> Didn't Trump recommended people drink or inject bleach? No, he didn't, listen to what he actually said. [this video] It's not a claim, it's an arguably stupid question to some guy off-screen. Yet, the title of this video is "President Trump claims injecting people with disinfectant could treat coronavirus". The outlet is the presumably reputable "Telegraph". Trump also never called Nazis "fine people". What actually was said: "...you had very fine people on both sides..." [LINK] "And you had people - and I’m not talking about the neo-Nazis and the white nationalists - because they should be condemned totally." [LINK] The job of the media is to fabricate outrage and scandals, because that's how

Critical interestica · 2021-01 · on “U.S. to require negative Covid-19 tests for international air passengers”

> I think many people tuned out the moment he recommended injecting bleach - but there was still value in the briefings. It was something that I know a LOT of people actually paid attention to. This is an interesting comment re:communications and the messaging that reaches people. Trump did not recommend injecting bleach. He went on a rambling mostly incoherent recollection of a conversation he had where he was trying to learn what was being done. He was trying to sound smart. His comments were all questions to the med experts. "Is there a way we can do something like that?" "Are we going to check on that?" Yet everyone jumped on it saying he "claims" or "recommended". And it became "truth"