That was done in the form of a sarcastic question
Transcript of that chat with reporters today:
Trump: 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.
Reporter: But you were asking your medical experts to look into it.
Trump: To look into whether or not sun — and disinfectant on the hands — but whether or not sun can help us. Because, I mean he came in yesterday and he said they’ve done a big study. This is a study. This isn’t where he hasn’t done it. This is where they’ve come in with a final report that sun has a massive impact negatively on this virus. In other words, it does not live well with humidity and it doesn’t live well with sun, sunlight, heat. It doesn’t live well with heat and sun and and disinfectant. And that’s what I brought up, and I thought that was clear.
He still hasn’t explained how he’s going to get sun inside the body.
I do think that disinfectant on the hands could have a very good effect. Now, Bill is going back to check that in the laboratory. You know, it’s an amazing laboratory, by the way. It’s amazing the work they do. So, he’s going to check because a hard surface. This is a hard surface I guess maybe depending on whose hand you’re talking about, right? But this is a hard surface and disinfectant, disinfectant has an unbelievable — it wipes it out. You saw it? Sun and heat, and humidity and you wipe it out. And this is from tests — they’ve been doing these tests for a number of months. And the result — so then I said, ‘Well, how do we do it inside the body or even outside the body with the hands and disinfectant I think would work.’ He thinks it would work. When you use it when you’re doing your hands. I guess that’s one of the reasons they say wash your hands, but whether it’s washing hands or disinfectant on your hands, it’s very good. So, they’re going to start looking at that. And there is a way of, you know, if light — if sun, sun itself that sun has a tremendous impact on or kills it like in one — it goes from what was it? Hours to like one minute instead.
So, I said you got to go back and look, but I’d like them now to look as it pertains to the human body. Not just sitting on a railing or sitting on a wall. I’d like to look as it pertains because maybe there’s something there. They have to work with — I’m not a doctor. They have to work with their doctors. but maybe there is something to light, and the human body, and helping people that are dying.
In other words he wants them to get the UV rays inside the body. Not just sitting on a railing where the rays are outside, but inside the body. They have to bring it inside the body, through the skin or some other way. They have to work with their doctors though – none of this amateur shit.
Does he actually believe that scientists have just now discovered that purell and hand-washing are good?
And does he not know that the virus lives quite comfortably inside our hot bodies?
I (now) live in perpetual fear that one day someone is going to sit Trump down in front of Fantastic Voyage.
Pretty simple really. It would be a three-stage solution: 1. Write a fan letter to Bugs Bunny, asking for options, then 2. pick the best one; then 3. do that.
Trouble is, every time some reporter asks Trump a question, well it’s like handing him a shovel and inviting him to dig himself in a bit deeper. Which he then does, with monotonous predictability. Predictability of process, mind. Not of outcome. For that, the reporters would be better off going to some seedy casino in downtown Las Vegas, and playing a roulette wheel till their money runs out.
Thank you I literally LOLed! In fact I had recorded that movie a long time ago but never got around to finding the right moment to view it until now, thanks again. It’s one of those movies I’ve read about for years in Sci-Fi magazines but never got around to seeing it.
Oh, I missed the part about humidity!
Do you know where it is very hot and humid? Inside people’s bodies. The virus has no trouble living inside our hot, humid bodies.
Also, as someone pointed out (I think in a tweet), so is Singapore, where the virus is rampant.
So, wait. He was being totally sarcastic when he said it yesterday. You took it all out of context to make him look bad. That was sarcastic.
Is he being sarcastic again today when he said exactly what he said yesterday again today? How can anybody know when he’s being sarcastic, and when he’s not?
If you’re being sarcastic, WHY are you being sarcastic? What is the point of your “sarcasm”? Especially if nobody can tell you’re “being sarcastic”?
More to the point, and taking the Carrot-skinned Avenger at his dubious word, where the hell do he and his enablers get off smirking and saying that sarcasm has any place coming from the podium of the President of the United States when addressing a worldwide crisis? Yes, sure, the president can joke around in lighthearted moments in the Rose Garden, or at structured events like the WHCD, but…this is serious shit, and the presidency is supposed to be serious business.
If I was some fundamentalist preacher from some storefront church in say, Dogpatch, Oklahoma, I might tell my congregation that the Lord was testing Trump with some serious excrement. Then take up collection, followed by a prayer of thanks for sending both Trump the lead America, and for sending through Trump to all the world this sure heavenly sign that Judgement Day will shortly be upon us. Then send round the plate once again. Hallelujah!
Trump to lead America. These little typos are the Devil’s work, of that I am sure.
@Seth Yes, yes, exactly this. Saying it was sarcasm doesn’t make it better, it makes it worse. Especially, as Maddog1129 says, we can’t tell when he’s being “sarcastic” and his moronic followers can’t tell either. Saying injecting disinfectant might be a good idea is a bad thing to say, but saying it and then dismissing it as sarcasm is also washing his hands of any consequences that might occur. And consequences have occurred – poison control centers had already seen higher call volumes regarding various disinfectants before he opened his face hole. They spiked after his “joke”. Hahaha. Hilarious.
@Ben I think this is all about his fundamental insistence that SARS-Cov2 would behave exactly like the flu. He’s never stopped believing that. So because flu retreats during summer months, he thinks this virus will too. It wouldn’t surprise me to learn that he thinks all viruses are like this.
A lot of this is new to him (disinfectant kills viruses on hard surfaces? Who knew?) because he’s never had to lift a finger to clean anything in his entire life. He maybe knows that Lysol is a leading brand and maybe knows the CEO of BF but the connection between what they sell and what those products do is not there.
Don’t you people have any empathy? This hoax virus invented by Democrats and reported by the fake news is making him look bad even though he is the super genius of all time and his response to this crisis has been perfect. Oh, the Trumpanity!
It’s interesting that Trump, who has described himself as germphobic in the past, clearly knows absolutely nothing about germs or how to make them go away.
Perhaps he doesn’t know what “germphobe” means. Perhaps he heard that Howard Hughes was germphobic so figured he should be too without understanding the word.
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