President Trump on Friday said he was being sarcastic when he suggested multiple times a day earlier that scientists should consider exposing the body to light, heat and disinfectants as a potential treatment for the coronavirus.
“I was asking a question sarcastically to reporters like you just to see what would happen,” Trump told reporters at an Oval Office bill signing.
“I was asking a sarcastic — and a very sarcastic question — to the reporters in the room about disinfectant on the inside,” the president continued. “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.”
When a journalist in the Oval Office pointed out that Trump had turned to experts next to the stage when he first raised the idea on Thursday, the president claimed he was asking those officials “whether or not sun and disinfectant on the hands … can help us.”
The president’s explanation drew skepticism among those who watched the briefing, where Trump directly turned to other government officials to ask about the idea.
“It didn’t seem like it was coming off as sarcastic when he was talking and turning to Dr. Birx on the side,” Fox News anchor Bret Baier said on air after Trump’s walk-back was reported.
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JUST IN: Trump says remarks about heat, light, disinfectant were sarcastic: "I was asking a question sarcastically to reporters" https://t.co/DPSCO3EoKH pic.twitter.com/a2mAKpX9zv
— The Hill (@thehill) April 24, 2020
#BREAKING: President Trump says remarks about heat, light, disinfectant were sarcastic: "I was asking a question sarcastically to reporters like you just to see what would happen." https://t.co/lPysHfFKBb pic.twitter.com/mtY7dZgNnj
— The Hill (@thehill) April 24, 2020
Trump's lame attempt to say he was being sarcastic will work with the cult, because everything does. It'll hurt him with the normals.
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) April 24, 2020
Translation: Staff said "This is disastrous, you have to say you were joking," and he said "fine, whatever, I'll say it, but I won't really say it" because he can never, ever admit a mistake. https://t.co/AB9e3dX2Cd
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) April 24, 2020
Every reporter should have the same followup question at every Trump press conference: Are you being sarcastic?
— Abel Archer (@RealAbelTasman) April 24, 2020
So much for the "no one could possibly be this stupid" dismissal. https://t.co/ReGIEyVqB7
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) April 24, 2020
Let’s discuss Joe Biden’s mental state but I heard that if I took a hydroxychloriqune pill, chased it with Clorox while sitting in a tanning bed, I won’t get the Coronavirus.
So I’m going to do that; when I come back, let’s discuss the mental state of one Joe Biden.
— YS (@NYinLA2121) April 24, 2020
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