Trump Said We Should Inject Ourselves with Lysol

[RayThom]

Not to worry. These doctors fully approve.

[Scooter]

[BoSoxGal]

I really need to understand just how cynical to be now going forward - I’m already pretty fucking cynical, but I could become a total cunt.

Did somebody this dense actually earn a space and then a degree from University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School? Is it really just pay for play, children of millionaires get Ivy League degrees despite being near brain dead?

Or is he descending into crippling dementia before our eyes?

[Econoline]

Haha! Just kidding! Fooled ya!

Yesterday, President Trump stood at the lectern in the White House press room and, while the cameras rolled, asked his science advisers to test whether they could treat coronavirus patients by injecting ultraviolet light or disinfectant into their bodies. Today he explained to reporters that he had just been joking. “I was asking a question sarcastically to reporters like you,” he said, “just to see what would happen.”

Trump was not addressing reporters when he said this. He was turning to the side and addressing his mortified science adviser, Dr. Deborah Birx. And he was not smiling. [Neither was she, BTW.]

Trump often resorts to the defense that he was “just joking” when one of his comments becomes impossible to defend. He used it to describe his 2016 request that Russia steal Hillary Clinton’s emails (a request Russia acted on that night, according to the Mueller report), his promise to pardon any border agents who commit crimes while carrying out his agenda, and many others.

In this case, Trump does not seem to be saying it was a haha joke, but some kind of serious prank, in which he would float a completely preposterous idea and see if he could get the White House media to report it as news. The prank required Trump to maintain a completely deadpan demeanor, and to get Birx’s cooperation, and to let the untruth go uncorrected for about 18 hours before finally revealing the gag. Trump was using his briefing on a deadly pandemic that has killed 50,000 Americans already for an Andy Kaufman–esque ruse, with the concomitant risk that his supporters will be killed in the process.

This is Trump’s defense! Because the actual truth is much worse: He just comes up with insane ideas for cures and demands his medical advisers look into them, because he has no idea how science works and thinks brainstorming kooky notions in public makes him look smart.

— Jonathan Chait in NYMag

[Scooter]

[Gob]

I am so stealing that!!

Love Adrian Edmonson, but without Rick Mayal he's only half an act.

[Scooter]

[Lord Jim]

Definitely sharing that one...

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[Econoline]

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Jim Wright

Trump, Day 1: <says some ridiculously insane thing>

Trump, Day 2: The media is taking my words out of context.

Trump, Day 3: I didn't mean what I said. I was speaking sarcastically. I was trolling the media.

Trump, Day 4: The media printed what I said, but since I didn't mean what I said, it's totally fake news.

Trump, Day 5: I never said that.

Hannity: NANCY PELOSI EATS ICE CREAM LIKE A COMMIE!

[Scooter]

[Econoline]

Jim Wright

Or what if we could shrink a submarine down to microscopic size. And the tiny submarine would be filled with tiny sailors -- and maybe Raquel Welch, only she's like a super hot doctor, right? Anyway, sailors like beer and the virus is made out of beer. Corona, hello! Problem solved! Anyway, that would interesting. So, we should totally check it out.

[Scooter]

[Bicycle Bill]

'Butt' do they have a temperature control, like an electric blanket?
Remember, the Fabricator in Chief said it would take a combination of light and heat.....

-"BB"-

[Econoline]

If you like gaslighting, you're gonna LOVE asslighting!

[Scooter]