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I have said so many not printable words last night and this morning.

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WE ALL USED OUR OWN EYES AND EARS Thursday to witness -- either in person, or on a screen -- President DONALD TRUMP suggest that disinfectants might be able to help cure the body of Covid-19.

WE WATCHED HIM MOTION TOWARD DEBORAH BIRX while he asked her to study this, along with whether ultraviolet lights might also cure the disease. WE WATCHED HIM call WaPo’s PHIL RUCKER “fake news” because he suggested people want to hear more than just rumors during the White House briefings -- the president said he was just there to deliver “ideas,” and people should still consult with doctors.

MANY OF US ALSO KNOW -- because we are functioning human beings on planet Earth who were not born yesterday -- that it’s not prudent to put such substances inside your body because they can make you really sick, or perhaps kill you.

BUT HERE’S WHAT HAPPENED since the president said that.

-- HE GOT BACKUP … W.H. PRESS SECRETARY KAYLEIGH MCENANY issued a statement razzing the media: “President Trump has repeatedly said that Americans should consult with medical doctors regarding coronavirus treatment, a point that he emphasized again during yesterday’s briefing. Leave it to the media to irresponsibly take President Trump out of context and run with negative headlines.”

-- MORE THAN 100 PEOPLE called Maryland’s emergency hotline asking about whether injecting or ingesting disinfectants could help cure Covid-19, according to Gov. LARRY HOGAN’S comms director MIKE RICCI. The state’s emergency management agency said: “This is a reminder that under no circumstances should any disinfectant product be administered into the body through injection, ingestion or any other route.”

-- THE MAKER OF LYSOL put out a public statement saying that “under no circumstance should our disinfectant products be administered into the human body (through injection, ingestion or any other route).”

-- SCOTT GOTTLIEB -- TRUMP’S former FDA director -- went on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” to say: “I think we need to speak very clearly. There’s no circumstance under which you should take a disinfectant or inject a disinfectant for the treatment of anything, and certainly not the treatment of coronavirus. There’s absolutely no circumstance in which that’s appropriate, and it can cause death and very adverse outcomes, so people should not be doing that if that was an impression that was left by any of the reporting around comments that have been made in the last 24 hours.”

THE PRESIDENT THEN SAID today in the Oval Office that he was “ asking a question sarcastically to reporters like you just to see what would happen,” per the print pooler, Chris Johnson of the Washington Blade.

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Originally posted by wtg:
The Onion, a month ago:

https://local.theonion.com/man...Main&utm_campaign=SF

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Originally posted by Piano*Dad:
And yet I know many good conservatives who just say, "calm down, you're overreacting. You're just falling for the initial media hype from biased reporters. Think more critically. What he actually said is ..." and they'll find the most benign possible interpretation. Over and over again.