April 25th, 2020 at 11:48 PM
I heard about the news too. I'm so glad.
Trump apparently brought up the idea of people ingesting sanitizer, then talked it up to "being sarcastic" after the fact. I watched the footage. He was pretty much thinking out loud. He was actually mostly suggesting that people do some research on heat and light from the inside of the body as a means of cleaning it, and he was suggesting that this research be taken on by medical professionals.
The remark about ingesting hand sanitizer was a bit out of context when you view it and he backtracked quickly. He actually mentioned only that the idea had been brought up to him, and that he though it was "interesting, but it needs more research." So all in all, he did make an incredibly stupid remark about it, but the news media exaggarated things and didn't tell the whole story.
That whole briefing was a disaster even outside of that though. It's just... He completely embarassed himself on national television. Badly.
Trump apparently brought up the idea of people ingesting sanitizer, then talked it up to "being sarcastic" after the fact. I watched the footage. He was pretty much thinking out loud. He was actually mostly suggesting that people do some research on heat and light from the inside of the body as a means of cleaning it, and he was suggesting that this research be taken on by medical professionals.
The remark about ingesting hand sanitizer was a bit out of context when you view it and he backtracked quickly. He actually mentioned only that the idea had been brought up to him, and that he though it was "interesting, but it needs more research." So all in all, he did make an incredibly stupid remark about it, but the news media exaggarated things and didn't tell the whole story.
That whole briefing was a disaster even outside of that though. It's just... He completely embarassed himself on national television. Badly.
