the moment the words left Trump's mouth it was clear some sort of damage limitation was needed

[Demovictory9]

Debacle of Trump's coronavirus disinfectant comments could be tipping point

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From almost the moment the words left Trump’s mouth it was clear some sort of damage limitation was needed.

But, as shock and amazement traversed the globe, it was slow in coming. When it did arrive, on Friday lunchtime, it was a clean-up attempt that clearly could have gone better. At a White House event Trump tried to justify his dangerous comments, falsely claiming that he was “asking a question sarcastically to reporters”.

On Friday, even as the US death toll topped 50,000 and the grim milestone of 1 million coronavirus cases grows nearer, Trump tried to make what critics saw as a desperate and dishonest U-turn.

“I was asking a question sarcastically to reporters like you just to see what would happen,” the president, sitting at the Resolute desk in the Oval Office, told reporters as he signed emergency funding legislation.

“When I was asking a sarcastic – a very sarcastic question – to the reporters in the room about disinfectant on the inside, 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 a reporter.”

But video of the briefings clearly demonstrated otherwise. There was no hint of sarcasm and Trump’s attempts to rewrite the immediate past were undermined by the evidence just a simple Google search away.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/apr/25/donald-trump-coronavirus-disinfectant-sarcastic-tipping-point

[Aussie105]

1. Trump doesn't know the differences

between antibodies, antibiotics, antiseptics and disinfectants.
Or their appropriate uses.

Somebody needs to buy the boy a medical dictionary!

But 'I was being sarcastic' as an explanation doesn't fly. The question wasn't aimed at a reporter. It was aimed at the medical person to his right, who tried really hard to appear invisible as he said it.

Honestly, just say you are out of your depth big time Donald, and get off the podium.

[iemitsu]

2. Trump would not read the dictionary if you bought it.

That is his problem. He thinks he can wing everything. Pay little or no attention and BS his way through.
He is worse than the worst cheating bully in Middle School.

[no_hypocrisy]

6. The statement wasn't even mildly ironic.

[SunSeeker]

3. Roll the tape, please:

Link to tweet

[Aussie105]

4. Having a seemingly normal person mime those words

really brings home how demented #45 is.
A real eye opener.

Have we become THAT adjusted to #45's insane ramblings that this whole thing becomes just a shrug of the shoulders?
It seems so.

[SunSeeker]

9. Yes, we're so used to him we have become desensitized to how nuts his statements are.

And they really are nuts.

[calimary]

5. We have a running joke at our house.

When the time comes one of us inevitably hollers “roll the video!”

And the video clip comes on and it inevitably shows what he really said and who he said it to. And it’s never what he claims it is.

“Roll the video!”

[montana_hazeleyes]

7. Someone should have 5150ed him right then and there,

and dragged him to the nearest mental facility. Period. The bastards are straight up telling us that no matter what, they will not stop him!

[bdamomma]

10. hmmm..

they may not stop him but we can.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

8. It's the second lie about it. First lie was PressSec McEnemy saying he was quoted out of context. nt

[Demovictory9]

12. lies within lies within lies.. like a Russian doll of lies

[0rganism]

11. sarcasm is a piss poor apologetic

wtf is he doing playing stupid PR games and fucking around with jokes while thousands of Americans are dying?

weak. should have rolled with "unscripted spitballing" to pretend he cared, someone gave him some particularly stupid advice.