He was being sarcaaaaaastic, obvs
No, Don, that’s not going to work.
President Donald Trump said Friday that his remarks on injecting disinfectants to treat COVID-19 were sarcasm, after doctors responded with horror and disinfectant manufacturers urged people not to ingest the poisonous substances.
Nope. I mean, obviously that’s just a desperate ploy, but even apart from that – we know his mannerisms, and that was not his sarcastic mode. That was his “Look how smart I am, hearing about disinfectants in the pre-briefing discussion and then thinking up a way to use them even more strongly” mode. That was his big boy in big boy pants talking about sciencey stuff with the scientists because he had this uncle who was brilliant and he’s brilliant too and can talk sciencey and make suggestions and everything mode. People are surprised! People are surprised how brilliant he is, how good at this stuff he is – we’re lucky to have his brilliant suggestions and advice and thinky questions.
“I was asking a question sarcastically to reporters just like you, just to see what would happen,” Trump said on Friday during a bill signing for the coronavirus aid package. “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 and it would kill it on the hands, and it would make things much better.”
He was being sarcastic and very sarcastic but also he meant it and it would TOTALLY WORK and make things much better.
Trump denied he was asking his experts to investigate the issue, and repeatedly reiterated that disinfectant on the hands and sun can damage or kill the coronavirus. He said he was urging his officials to investigate how “sun can help us.”
I mean duh. Why is everybody so stupid? Disinfectant on the hands can damage or kill the coronavirus so OBVIOUSLY it can do it in the stomach too. Clean hands, clean stomach, virus killed. Boom.
I have a silent look of sarcastic contempt that can make cats slink away in embarrassment. I get to use it very rarely, but thi is one of those times. Here’s looking at you Trump, you corrupt, murderous fuckwit.
God, that backtracked backtrack shows his simplemindedness off to any who care to look. On the one hand,
Comment Got Lauged At :((((((( Must Say Didn’t Mean It!
BUT
Big Bwain Never Wrong, Me Always Right >:))))))))
I wonder how they got him to walk that one back so quickly, given how long he he was yammering on about hydroxychloroquine? Maybe the billionaire owner of Lysoll was able to pound the gravity of death-through-Lysoll into him? Nah. The only death that would upset him would be his own. More likely he was threatened with denial of campaign contributions.
Never occurs to him that things that destroy viruses might destroy living tissue…maybe he heard somewhere that viruses aren’t considered living, so he figures, what destroys them won’t hurt life? Nah, that’s giving him too much credit.
But… I mean… I guess he doesn’t know what sarcastic means?
Maybe he means it was… I don’t know… hypothetical?
Because (yes, I know he’s just trying to wriggle our of another embarrassing situation) what would he even have meant if it had been sarcastic?
“Sure, what are you going to do? Inject sunlight? As if that would work. Yeah, right. Then what? Are you going to drink disinfectant? Whatever you say.”
Being sarcastic like that wouldn’t make any more sense to me.
Head down to Mar A Lago for a little getaway, President Dipshit. They have removed the canopy from your gold plated golf cart, and filled the cooler with nice refreshing Lysol bottles. You can chug your new beverage of choice, get plenty of sun in that 90° Florida heat, and come back a new man. What have you got to lose?
What Ben said. Sarcasm wouldn’t have made any sense in context.
On top of everything else – we’re supposed to think press briefings by the U.S. President about a deadly pandemic are the appropriate time and place for a bit sarcasm? What next, declarations of war punctuated with slapstick? Deaths of public figures announced via adaptations of the dead parrot sketch?
I have this fantasy where people now dismiss everything that Trump says going forward as sarcasm. He’s used to ruling by Twitter-decree, and now people just shrug it off. And when Trump insists that no, really, he means it, reporters look him straight in the eye and ask, How can we tell?