WH claims Trump's disinfectant 'ingestion' idea taken 'out of context'

[left-of-center2012]

Trump suggested controversial ideas at Thursday's coronavirus task force briefing after calling up Bill Bryan, an official from the Department of Homeland Security's science and technology division, who presented new research on COVID-19.

The president, playing off what Bryan said and without evidence, went on to suggest:
"I see the disinfectant that 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? As you see, it gets in the lungs, it does a tremendous number on the lungs, so it would be interesting to check that," the president continued.

The White House claimed Friday that his comments, which many medical experts call dangerous or even deadly, were taken "out of context." White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said. "Leave it to the media to irresponsibly take President Trump out of context and run with negative headlines."

It wasn't clear, and the White House did not elaborate, on what, if anything, was taken "out of context" in news reports quoting the president's own words as seen on national television and streams.

Lysol's maker issued a statement warning people not to consume the product.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/warnings-trump-suggesting-disinfectant-ingestion-deadly-wh-claims/story?id=70328631

[EarlG]

1. Whaaaa...?

The context was, he was standing behind a podium with the presidential seal on it, on national television, giving a briefing about the coronavirus, and he stated that "it would be interesting to check" the idea of INJECTING DISINFECTANT INTO PEOPLE.

What other context was there?

[StarryNite]

22. Exactly!

And in context that is exactly what he said. I'm sick of people making excuses for that dangerous maniac.

[2naSalit]

23. +1

[muriel_volestrangler]

24. Context? What context?

Oh, that context. (I am currently in an argument with Trump fanatics on a British board who say he was talking about injecting "antimicrobials", not commonly available disinfectants. They pleaded for "context" )

[ProfessorGAC]

27. Talking To His Experts!

Making scientific suggestions to his EXPERTS!
There's the context. He's an idiot. In context, he's an idiot!

[doc03]

2. We have tape. nt

[DBoon]

16. Then use the tape to shut Trumps mouth !

[unblock]

3. "Drink it? What, are you crazy? I said *inject* it!"

[Laelth]

7. LOL.

This is the weakest defense EVAH.



-Laelth

[Botany]

4. No it was a direct quote

Link to tweet

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[SoonerPride]

5. Don't try to gaslight me, you motherfuckers.

I know what I heard.

He said to fucking INJECT dissenfectant in humans to see what happens.

[Laelth]

6. Typical Trump-team spin.

When you can’t defend the indefensible, you go on the attack. This time it’s the media.

Sad. Truly, but there’s no getting around the fact that Agent Orange said we were “testing” the internal use of disinfectants to kill the novel Coronavirus.

Just like his impeachment, no amount of spin is going to bleach out that stain.

-Laelth

[tanyev]

8. Oh c'mon, Kayleigh, are you denying his natural ability?

"You know, my uncle was a great person. He was at MIT. He taught at MIT for, I think, like a record number of years. He was a great super genius. Dr. John Trump. I like this stuff. I really get it. People are surprised that I understand it. Every one of these doctors said, 'How do you know so much about this? ' Maybe I have a natural ability. Maybe I should have done that instead of running for president."


I just noticed in this quote that Trump has no clue how many years his uncle taught at MIT, so he fills in “a record number of years”.

[Yavin4]

9. So, what is the proper context?

I'm confused.

[MineralMan]

10. Kayleigh McEnemy, Trump's youthful, blonde Press Secretary,

is already attacking the press. She learns fast, apparently. She forgot to call it the "Fake News," though. A reprimand from Trump will be in her email, along with a request to "Bring the Machine!"

[Botany]

13. Kayleigh McEnemy's act is just that an act

She went to Georgetown, Oxford, and Harvard Law. She is on record as telling somebody that
she knows it is an act but being pretty and pushing the right wing agenda makes her a lot of money.

[dalton99a]

18. +1. She is neither dumb nor naive. She is an amoral opportunist.

[Botany]

20. I wonder how she sleeps? She knows she is promoting a very evil "thing" and people are dying.

n/t

[SMC22307]

29. On a bed made of money, as Don Draper would say. (n/t)

[Botany]

30. A piece of crap "Fox Blond" w/her fake boobs*, fake hair, whitened teeth, and her cross 'cause ...

... she is "a Christian." But meanwhile back at the ranch an insane con man who was installed by
Vlad Putin is overseeing and is responsible for 50,000 + deaths and 1,000,000 cases of C-19. No
amount of being pretty, sexy, and smart can cover up the stench of those dead and the heartbreaks
of the their family and friends. And almost exactly 75 years ago the same kind of person took her life
as the Soviet Army was closing in on the Führerbunker, her name was "Magda" Goebbels.




* They might be real.

[SMC22307]

31. The other day I was thinking of The Blondes featured in Nazi propaganda...

...and Nepotism Barbie came to mind. Think it was when she attempted to school Biden over his remarks about Dr. Fauci being the "only" one who should speak about the coronavirus. The "pretty" blonde, champion of Dr. Birx and women everywhere!

[Bad Thoughts]

11. Bullsh--

This is clearly emblematic of how Trump operates. He comes up with some radical idea that is preposterous. It is based on his own lack of touch with reality. He won't let the medical experts lead on medical issues. Clearly, his undersecretary and his medical adviser were too afraid to contradict him. There is so much revealed in the one conference.

[Laelth]

25. Indeed.

The whole affair is very telling, and the story it tells might as well have come out of Grimm’s Fairy Tales.

-Laelth

[C_U_L8R]

12. They're blaming the media instead of taking responsibility

Resign, you twits.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

14. Satirist Alexandra Petri on Twitter:

Link to tweet

[DBoon]

15. The context being that a complete moron and compulsive liar suggested this

and it therefore has no credibility, just like everything else the moron and compulsive liar says.

[Marrah_Goodman]

17. It. Is. On. Video. n/t

[Tom Rinaldo]

19. It's still crazy within any possible context of their own choice

So he didn't come flat out and say that people should ingest or inject disinfection, so he conceded that doctors should check out his idea to see if it held promise, so he "admitted" that it might not work, so what? It's still crazy.

In fact it would have been crazy for any President to muse out loud in any press conference about any untested approach to combating a pandemic even if the idea wasn't crazy on the face of it. To have such an inflated ego that he seriously believes he would dream up a new approach to combating an infectious disease that no other expert in the world had thought of is crazy right there, but potentially tolerable IF he had sufficient sense to pass that idea along in private and not insist that time and resources go into researching his hunches unless the professionals thought the idea had merit. But that's not what Trump does. Because he is crazy.

[Laelth]

26. He thinks very highly of himself, doesn't he? n/t

-Laelth

[Chainfire]

21. I saw it with my own eyes

and heard it with my own ears.

No amount of spin can undo what he said, and it is insulting to the people to suggest that it was taken out of context. Trump said it, I believe it, and that is the end of it.

The man is an idiot and it is obvious to anyone who listens to him.

[kentuck]

28. Well, that's the problem, isn't it?

Like the guy that took the chloroquine that was meant for fishtanks, because Trump spoke something that he took out of context. When you are the President, you cannot be so reckless with your words.

[struggle4progress]

32. "I hear heat kills the virus! Maybe we could put people in ovens to cure them"