Trump, who is not a medical doctor, suggested at his daily campaign rally yesterday, that his experts should study the effects of ingesting disinfectants, since they are known to kill coronavirus. Or inserting ultraviolet light inside the body or staying in bright sunshine.
The manufacturer of Lysol, a leading disinfectant, released a warning to the public: Do not ingest Lysol.
Anderson Cooper asked two doctors on CNN, including Dr. Sanjay Gupta, about Trump’s recommendations, and they said no responsible doctor would consider Trump’s recommendations. COVID affects people in hot and sunny climates. Disinfectants should not be ingested.
Perhaps his cabinet or Mitch McConnell should offer themselves as subjects for a trial recommended by the man they adore.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Perhaps his cabinet or Mitch McConnell should offer themselves as subjects for a trial recommended by the man they adore. Yes. Better yet the man who made these recommendations. Put his body where his mouth is. Trump and his supporters are really dangerous.
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Yes, dangerous to those who are equally ignorant . . . but I’m still reeling about just HOW ignorant Trump really is. . . and now we see he’s also a snake-oil salesman.
. . . and I’m wearing out my interior snark-control button. CBK
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It’s a shame because we ARE getting better at treating the virus as health care providers learn more about it and if treatment improves people will be less anxious and more willing to “open” the economy.
Maybe the Trump Administration should just self-quarantine and stop working until the rest of the country figures it out without them- they’re not helping and they’re often harming. They can come back when it’s safer 🙂
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Trump is the new Jim Jones….and we all know what happened when “the followers” drank the Kool-Aid. Sorry to say this as it sounds really awful, but maybe it wouldn’t be so bad if history repeated itself in this current situation.
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Maybe this is the theory (from a commenter at The Intercept): “The bleach would eat away at your inside and the unfiltered UV rays would eat away at your outside. So there wouldn’t be much left for the virus to attack.”
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I wonder how many people are stupid enough to drink Lysol and Clorox because Trump said it was a good idea.
Will FOX News promote drinking disinfectant?
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Diane . . . perhaps fortunately for the sane among us (both D&R), Trump apparently doesn’t himself understand how off-the-rails such statements are to most of us (we have reason to hope?). It’s almost like he keeps pushing the envelop so far. . . that he actually wants to be stopped. CBK
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Brains? Trump tells us he’s got oodles–
a stable super genius, he
chose a breeder of labradoodles
the nation’s health to oversee.
And while we sit at home, expectant,
waiting for tests and contact tracing
Trump says, “shoot up some disinfectant;
that will cure the plague we’re facing,”
“And that’s not all!” he goes on, blathering,
clueless and creepy and idiotic,
“Oh worried nation at home gathering,
Covid’s stronger than antibiotics!”
though any child could tell you this:
antibiotics fight bacteria,
not viruses. Trump’s a vast abyss
of self-absorption and hysteria.
Science class he surely missed
and history and government too
He didn’t even get the gist
of any schooling he went through.
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Possible Borowitz headline… “Trump expresses concerns about the availability of Lysol. OK’s limited clinical trial for himself, his family and his Cabinet.”
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One can dream!
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You hear about the new bumper sticker?
“Biden – he won’t inject you with bleach”
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HAAAA!!!! Perfect!!!
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“Manufacturer of Lysol: Please Don’t Drink Lysol” – file under “Blog entries you never thought you would need to write”
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Yes!!!
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LOL. Exactly.
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Now if we could just get the makers of Kool-Aid to release a similar warning about Trump’s recommendations.
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LOL
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Sarah Cooper on bleach – hilarious ! Gotta smile somehow. https://twitter.com/sarahcpr/status/1253474772702429189
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Sarah Huckster-bee Sanders (Miss Communications) must be very happy today that she no longer has the job of trying to explain that Trump didn’t say what he clearly said.
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That’s MIScommunications, Bob!
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Pleased you caught the pun.
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Trump é o ídolo de Bolsonaro ! 😦
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Quão triste isso é para o Brasil!
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Just about everyone had the idea that you don’t ingest household cleaning products hammered into our heads from a very early age, but apparently Trumplestiltskin wasn’t one of them. A brief web search will inform you of the fact that UV-C light kills pathogens by nuking their DNA, and that people who use UV-C devices in person wear protective gear so they don’t get a vicious burn and to prevent the real possibility of skin cancer down the road. Sunscreen just won’t do it. UV-C devices used to disinfect hospital rooms are operated remotely via a timer or an app on a phone. The bottom line here is that the head of any organization should not be “brainstorming” or in Trumplestiltskins case, BRAINFARTING at a meeting where they’re supposed to be presenting their team’s conclusions on what to do next or where they are at.
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Dr. Birx lost a lot of her respect and integrity yesterday by not standing up to Trump and strongly rebutting what he said. She sat there like a meek little girl. No courage whatsoever there. It’s amazing how so many will sell their souls to this guy. Awful. And dangerous for all of us.
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Keeping her job matters more to Dr. Birx than public health. Shame on her!
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Agree but disagree.
I think she lost all respect & integrity a long time ago.
One would like to think that she was going by the playbook to stay on & to be a voice of reason & knowledge, but I–& I’m sure I speak for many, here–had little to no respect for her from the beginning, as she silently stood by–not distancing, for one–practically nodding if not actually nodding at the WH it.
Never respected her…
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I doubt that Trumpty Dumpty ever had an original idea since it seems his thinking originates through Fake Fox News, Limbaugh, Hannity, et al. mostly at 3 in the morning.
So, if that is the case, who gave Trumpty Dumpty this idea that I WISH and PRAY he’d try first in front of live cameras during a press conference to prove that it works.
And to make sure he drinks Lysol, have someone the world trusts (I recommend Mattis) fill the glass with Lysol and make sure Trumpty Dumpty swallows every drop.
After Trumpty Dumpty drinks the Lysol, insert an infrared light down his throat and another one up his rectum to “sterilize” his innards.
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To Stephen Ronan & Lisa Eggert: brilliant! I want that bumper sticker!!
(If someone could make one, perhaps it could be slapped over WH its mouth!)
Also–we could purchase, w/some of profits (or 100%) going to Feeding America or other covid-19 relief funds.
&, Lisa–sounds like an Onion story, right?
BTW–wonder what Tucker Carlson & Hannity had to say about this. Again, wish I had the link, but there was an article in one of our Chicago dailies yesterday that a few U of Chicago people conducted a study on how many people watched Carlson (who, I think, urged caution/was more judicious) as opposed to Hannity (who disregarded all science, agreeing w/WH it that coronavirus is “nothing…will go away”) & how many Hannity viewers tested + for c-19 as opposed to Carlson viewers. < Carlson viewers tested + than Hannity fans. However, since tests are not readily available, how many viewers weren’t tested? But, just sayin’ that some scholarly folks thought to look into this.
Finally, have to set you all straight (no more “fake” news!!!): WH it suggested “injecting” disinfectants, not drinking them. (Being sarcastic, here.)
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Trump, ofc, lied about this today. He said, “I was asking a question sarcastically to reporters like you just to see what would happen.”
Here’s what Trump said:
“And then I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in a minute. 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 would be interesting to check that. So, that, you’re going to have to use medical doctors with. But it sounds — it sounds interesting to me.”
And he said this without a hint of sarcasm. And he followed up that idiocy by telling Birx, on live TV, that she would have to have the doctors look into this.
Into injecting disinfectants.
When is enough enough with this guy? Is there no low too low?
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Ha,ha–“So that, your going to have to use medical doctors with.”
WHAT–??? That isn’t even a sentence! Never end a sentence w/a preposition, correct?!
Aside from that, if my “medical” doctor recommended injecting me with Lysol or Clorox or even the generic brand (would probably be just as effective in killing…er, cleaning the coronavirus out of your system), he/she wouldn’t be my “medical” doctor for long.
Even Doctors Fine, Fine & Fine (remember The 3 Stooges?) wouldn’t recommend something so bizarre. And unfunny.
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@LisaM
You got it. Jim Jones dishing out the kool-aid
The difference this time, however, is that the GOP Senators and Cabinet are witnesses standing idle and silent as the kool-aid is being handed out and then drunk.
In the last 4 months since the first deaths and WHO warnings and subsequent alarms set off by experts, they have done nothing about this mans’ ineptness, mismanagement, and stupidity – with not-so-subtle racism and elitism strewn about.
The Senate needs to read the Constitution about oversight and the Cabinet needs to read the 25th Amendment.
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YES!!
WHERE is our Congress?!
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Not, where is the Congress, but where did the real GOP go?
It takes a majority to get something done, and the Republicans are missing in action. The Democratic majority in the House impeached Trumpy Dumpty, but the GOP in the Senate let him off Scott free and even blocked, for the first time in US history, witnesses from testifying so Trump’s deplorable followers wouldn’t hear them, again.
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Oh–& I meant to add–it’s beyond time for the Funny Farm…
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So, what is the proper response when the President of the United States tells people in a news conference that it’s probably a good idea to inject themselves with disinfectant? Well, such a man is obviously unfit for the office. Clearly, certainly, undeniably unfit. And in a sane world, this is when the members of the Cabinet invoke the 25th Amendment. Here’s the relevant text:
Section 4.
Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.
Thereafter, when the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that no inability exists, he shall resume the powers and duties of his office unless the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive department or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit within four days to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office. Thereupon Congress shall decide the issue, assembling within forty-eight hours for that purpose if not in session. If the Congress, within twenty-one days after receipt of the latter written declaration, or, if Congress is not in session, within twenty-one days after Congress is required to assemble, determines by two-thirds vote of both Houses that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall continue to discharge the same as Acting President; otherwise, the President shall resume the powers and duties of his office.
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If we could only get Limbaugh to talk on his radio show about shooting traitors like Moscow Mitch and how the only person that could get away with it would be President Trump.
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I think he wants to be “in on everything” and act like “he knows”. But he’s not. And he doesn’t. Then we see the result.
Check this out. It’s actually documented and, unfortunately, I wouldn’t put this past our current POTUS. What an incredibly bad state of affairs:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/24/revealed-leader-group-peddling-bleach-cure-lobbied-trump-coronavirus?fbclid=IwAR0t_H6zFNAmNlvUBoLi1ssB98JEO821Vi95wx4JU6p0woiseTLNU5VcsDM
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