Covid-19: After receiving backlash, Trump claims disinfectant ‘injection’ idea was sarcasm (video)

Amid a flurry of backlash and ridicule, President Trump walked back his suggestion that scientists test whether disinfectants, such as bleach, could be injected inside the human body to fight the coronavirus, claiming Friday that he had said it sarcastically.

The president offered his idea for a cure in the White House briefing room Thursday after a presentation that mentioned disinfectants can kill the novel coronavirus on surfaces and in the air.

“I see the disinfectant that knocks it out in a minute, one minute,” Trump said during Thursday’s coronavirus press briefing. “And is there a way we can do something like that by injection inside, or almost a cleaning? Because you see it gets inside the lungs and it does a tremendous number on the lungs, so it would be interesting to check that.”

The question, which Trump offered unprompted, immediately spurred doctors, lawmakers and the makers of Lysol to respond with incredulity and warnings against injecting or otherwise ingesting disinfectants, which are highly toxic.

When asked Friday during a bill signing in the Oval Office to expand upon this, Trump said it was not intended as a serious suggestion.

[b]“I was asking a question sarcastically to reporters like you just to see what would happen,” Trump said.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KPq_Tybb9M

There was no indication when he made the initial remarks that they were not a real recommendation.

“My concern is that people will die. People will think this is a good idea,” Craig Spencer, the director of global health in emergency medicine at New York-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center, told The Washington Post. “This is not willy-nilly, off-the-cuff, maybe-this-will-work advice. This is dangerous.”

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/04/24/disinfectant-injection-coronavirus-trump/%3foutputType=amp

After some parents already tried it on their kids

This man is a joker. He is playing while Covid-19 is busy enjoying lunch with the lives of US citizens
US has lost about 50,000 of its population to COVID-19 in less than one month. The first picture shows position of US and some other countries as at about 8:40pm today, 24/4/2020 while the second pix shows US and some other countries position on the 26/3/2020.
It shows that US 50,350 people in 28days at average of 1,798 death per day.

Why would any sane leader joke with this. This man is just a clown, I remember the time he suggessted using nuclear weapons to fight hurricane. He is making America great this time with sarcasm.

Sarcasm is not allowed in these trying times.

Your pipu are dying and u are busy making jokes.......who dey follow you play??

clown

This guy no Dey keep quiet sef.

What about chloroquine

dermmy:
Why would any sane leader joke with this.

Toor

The way people were refuting that he didn't make such statement in the other thread. Licking trumps ass like he gives a shiit about you guys.. Saner climes crew always praising US like their embassy officials view this thread and will commend u with visa for praising them. U guys always praise these people, it won't make them like u. It sucks, u guys don't fail to cease any opportunity to bring your country and yourselves down. Even if trump called Nigerians monkey and shit hole you'll still defend him. How low can our esteem get.

buh he's zombies denied he said anything like that..
how Nigerians are killing themselves over this man
suprises the hell outta me

This man sha

Trump always giving haters heart attacks

Trump is the greatest Propagandist I've ever seen, he attacks questions even before the interviewers lands and gives you reasons to discredit your own question, like what sort of a man is that

one ipob opened a disgraceful thread to justify trump claiming Cancer is a virus .

You can never be right if you are supported by IPOB, they supported Trump, over 24 million have lost their job, the stock market is down, over 50,000 people dead, they supported Brexit, UK can't figure out how to leave, their currency has dived several times and they have become a laughing stock in Europe that they cannot even get PPE for their doctors, they supported Atiku he lost terribly, they supported Cownu he abandoned them and only asked for his dog jack, they cheered everytime BH killed any of our troops today Shekau is begging to be arrested. Their support equates down fall, death and destruction. Nigerians wisely rejected Atiku who they so much love.

After realising his stupidity he is trying to save face by calling it a joke.

Trump supporters here were even trying to cover for his idiocy by calling it 'fake news'.

Continue to be joking with people's lives.

Of course it was sarcasm. People’s reaction to it just shows they all do not have sense, my conclusion since yesterday. Next.

I wonder how USA saw trump fit to become their president, this guy is supposed to b in COMEDY CENTRAL

Olorti

The funny thing is that a few days before Trump came out with his disinfectant claim, he had, according to the media, gotten an email from a 'bishop' who promotes something called 'miracle mineral water'..which is actually bleach mixed with water.

From the above link

The leader of the most prominent group in the US peddling potentially lethal industrial bleach as a “miracle cure” for coronavirus wrote to Donald Trump at the White House this week.

In his letter, Mark Grenon told Trump that chlorine dioxide – a powerful bleach used in industrial processes such as textile manufacturing that can have fatal side-effects when drunk – is “a wonderful detox that can kill 99% of the pathogens in the body”. He added that it “can rid the body of Covid-19”.

A few days after Grenon dispatched his letter, Trump went on national TV at his daily coronavirus briefing at the White House on Thursday and promoted the idea that disinfectant could be used as a treatment for the virus. To the astonishment of medical experts, the US president said that disinfectant “knocks it out in a minute. One minute!”

He went on to say: “Is there a way we can do something, by an 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.”

shooting yourself in the leg...
now looking for distractions. first put it on the governors, call for opening up, then turn on immigrants then turn on Iranians...

now turn on disinfectants and ultraviolet rays..not the best of times to be an american ryt now.

I knew he was except Americans are as dumb as some Nigerians who drank salty water during Ebola's era

It was sarcasm abeg

Tshew. I tell people that if Trump inherited a terrible system or government like when there was world economy recession, he would have been chased out of the office by citizens and not the legislative arm of govt trying to cut him off now. He is not intelligent he is just leveraging on the solid and wealthy system he inherited. What is the difference between Buhari that keeps quiet and a Trump that makes noise with no substance? When I heard him talk about injecting with disinfectant I collapsed.

Has anyone noticed that Trump uses a lot of superlatives in his speeches? There is no middle ground, nor room for uncertainties....he considers this a sign of weakness and Trump is no weakling. He is an Emperor, majestic and proud. Everything has to be perfect because he, the Lord Supreme has deigned it so. This narcissistic trait has destroyed America's image globally and now, it is claiming American lives.

Sadly, I don't think Biden is a good enough candidate to match Trump's apparent madness. Biden is too 'vanilla', too sane, too normal and pales in comparison to Trump who is seemingly larger than life, no thanks to his insanity. I only hope America makes the right choice in this upcoming election. A lot is at risk to leave for Trump, the Emperor Supreme, to fiddle around with.

ok now

But his aba made Jews were defending him yesterday that he never said that.


They will always defend nonsense