Trump Said We Should Inject Ourselves with Lysol

[Darren]

[Scooter]

The dilemma facing Trumpazees everywhere.

[Scooter]

[Darren]

Scooter you seem to have forgotten lots of red state folks grew up in families that grew their own food, canned it, raised and slaughtered their own stock and hunted for more food even out of season when necessary.

The city rats in the maze have no clue. Screaming, shouting and running about in their confines is no way to live.

[Scooter]

Walking behind a plow following a horse's ass surely explains whom they chose to vote for.

[Darren]

Walking behind a plow following a horse's ass surely explains whom they chose to vote for.

That was an improvement over hitching the wife up.

[BoSoxGal]

[Darren]

Damn! There was plenty of Chlorox on the shelves earlier this week. I always miss out on buying products when the makers offer serving suggestions.

I did make lasagna once from the recipe on the box. No one died so it must have been ok.

[Scooter]

Remember when we laughed at the idiocy of people who ate Tide pods? Now the POTUS is telling people to inject them.

[Scooter]

Was this yet another example of Trump reacting to the last thing that had been whispered in his ear?

Revealed: leader of group peddling bleach as coronavirus 'cure' wrote to Trump this week

[Lord Jim]

Trump actually had the sense to keep today's propaganda session short...

Guess somebody got through to him that spending an hour answering questions about yesterday's idiocy and the nonsensical and blatant lie he told this morning to try to weasel out of his idiocy wouldn't be a good look for him...

[Econoline]

[Econoline]

[Scooter]

[Econoline]

[Scooter]

From a friend:

His solutions to our national disasters have literally been:

Rake the forest.
Send a nuke into a hurricane.
And now, disinfectant injections.

[BoSoxGal]

Yes the date is wrong - clearly the TV doctors at NEJM have lost all track of days, weeks, months just like the rest of us in lockdown.

[ex-khobar Andy]

If Doogie Howser isn't one of the authors I'm not going to read it.

[BoSoxGal]

Doogie’s doing a write up on Trump’s proposal that we all stick UV lights down our tracheas.

[Scooter]

Jim Wright:

Trump Coronavirus Press Conference:

I can't do these deconstructions every day anymore.

I mean, I watch the press conference, I read the transcripts to see if I missed anything, and I start to write the summary and it just goes on and on and on and on and on. I just ... give up.

It sucks the life out of you after a while.

It's maddening.

It's nuts.

It's ridiculous.

It's sad and terrible and hilarious all at once, like bus full of circus clowns on fire going over a cliff.

And this week has been particularly miserable for me for personal reasons. So, I thought I'd, you know, maybe just make notes of the stuff that stood out as REALLY nuts and maybe just focus on that, do a summary at the end of the week.

Right?

...

And then Trump tells people to drink bleach.

And people DO it.

...

What. The. Fuck?

What the actual fuck?

There are people who actually listened to this idiot yesterday and zapped themselves with UV lights until they ended up with 3rd degree burns or drank household disinfectant and are now in the hospital.

Apparently drinking aquarium cleaner wasn't enough for these stooges.

And we've got crowds of these morons right now waving their guns outside our state capitals, demanding the right to infect themselves and others.

And what's Trump say today? What's he say at today's press conference? How do you top yesterday, right?

Drink bleach.

I mean, how the hell do you top that?

It lasted 22 minutes.

He spent 22 minutes digging himself a hole so deep I thought maybe he was planning on tunnelling out of the White House through the floor.

Birx was missing. So were the rest of Trump's so-called "experts."

Trump was mad.

He was so mad in fact that he tried to have the press room rearranged so he wouldn't have to face CNN's Jim Acosta.

Minutes before the briefing was to start, White House staffers entered the Press Room and told CNN in the front row to swap with the pool reporter in the back row.

Thing is, the White House doesn't determine seating.

Reporters do.

The White House Correspondents Association determines who sits where. Not Trump. Not Trump's staff.

So when the White House ordered the pool reporter to swap seats with CNN, the pool reporter refused. So the White House staffers tried to involve the Secret Service. Who refused to intervene when confronted by the WHCA, CNN, and the pool reporter. So, the White House had to back down.

And that's why Trump was so damn mad.

And at 22 minutes, Trump abruptly stomped out of the briefing, refusing to answer ANY questions.

Earlier in the day, in the Oval Office where he could control things, Trump claimed he was just joking yesterday, trolling the press, being "sarcastic," when he suggested injecting disinfectants into people or irradiating them with powerful UV lights.

Except, well...

Trump: "I was asking a question sarcastically to reporters [...] just to see what would happen."

Minutes later, however, he said he was actually serious and had asked government scientists to study the idea.

THEN he changed direction again and said that he was only talking about using disinfectants on hands -- which makes no sense given that he very specifically said yesterday, "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."

Injection.

Inside.

In the lungs.

Those are HIS WORDS.

Verbatim.

Injection.

Inside.

In the lungs.

He never said a goddamned thing about HANDS.

But, today, he tried to claim that's exactly what he was talking about. "I was asking a sarcastic question 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 that would make things much better. That was done in the form of a sarcastic question to the reporters."

What?

When pressed by a reporter in the Oval Office if he had ordered government experts to look into the idea, Trump said, "No, no, no, no. To look into whether or not sun or disinfectant on the hands, but whether or not sun can help us, because 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."

Confused? So was everybody else in the room. Nobody had any idea what the hell Trump was talking about or who "he" was.

But wait, there's more.

Trump: "They've been doing these tests for months, I said well how do you do it inside the body?"

How do you do it inside the human body? Right?

So, he WAS serious after all?

Trump then explained how DHS official William Bryan had an "amazing lab," and "So he's going to check. Because hard surfaces, this is a hard surface."

Trump seemed to be referring to his hands as a hard surface.

And, again, Trump claimed he was being sarcastic, but here he is explaining how a government scientist with an amazing lab is actually going to check on the idea?

Trump: "And disinfectant. The disinfectant has an unbelievable, wipes it out. You saw it. Sun and heat and humidity wipe it out. And this is from tests. They've been doing these tests for a number of months."

Trump appears to be confusing tests to determine how long the virus can live in the ENVIRONMENT with the human body.

Trump: "So then I said how do we do it inside the body or even outside the body or even outside the body with the hands and disinfectant? I think it would work. He [Bryan] thinks it would work. You use it when you're doing your hands. I guess that's one of the reasons they say wash your hands."

I ... can't even parody this anymore.

Trump: "So they're going to start looking at that. And there is a way, if light, if sun itself, so I said you've got to go back and look. But I'd like them now to look as it pertains to the human body."

Okay, you with me so far?

No?

Me neither. Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?

So, that was Trump trying to explain his comments about injecting disinfectant and UV light yesterday. He says he was joking, but he's also serious, apparently?

And to prove this, he called out Reuter's reporter Jeff Mason, "I was looking at you!" [During the Thursday Press Conference]

Trump says you know he was being sarcastic, because he was looking at Mason when he made the comments.

Except, as Mason noted, Mason WASN'T THERE.

Another reporter reminded him, "You were looking at Dr. Birx."

I mean, it's literally on video, right?

Trump: "I was looking at Bill, I was looking at the doctor, I was looking at some of the reporters. I don't know if you were there. Were you there? If you were there I would never forget."

Mason: "I wasn't there yesterday."

Trump: "You were not? I didn't think you were there."