Yesterday's daily Trump press room rally was even more bizarre and dangerous than usual, with happy talking moron and con man Donald "COVID Donnie" Trump holding forth on ultraviolet light introduced into the body and disinfectant injections as COVID-19 "cures" The dangerous riff was prompted by the high school science fair - like presentation of a sycophantic hack from the Homeland Security Department (so they're dispensing "medical" advice these days?). The only doctor in the room appeared to be Dr. Deborah Birx, who has been, shall we say, gentle as far as correcting Trump's buffoonery. But here's a clip of her reaction to Trump's Clorox and sunbeam nonsense (her discomfort ramps up at roughly the 25 second point):
Here is Dr. Birx's reaction when President Trump asks his science advisor to study using UV light on the human body and injecting disinfectant to fight the coronavirus. pic.twitter.com/MVno5X7JMA— Daniel Lewis (@Daniel_Lewis3) April 24, 2020
Bill "Take This Pill" Bryan, the Homeland Security hack that talked about these new quack cures, has no medical, academic or epidemiological credentials. Dr. Irwin Redlener, director of Columbia University's National Center for Disaster Preparedness, wasn't buying the snake oil:
“Everything that this scientist talked about from Homeland Security was basically incoherent, nonsensical, not really supported by evidence and really quite contrary to a lot of things we do know.”Which puts the "scientist" right in Trump's wheelhouse.
BONUS: More shocked reactions from doctors and scientists: "people will die," "frightening," "extremely dangerous." Lysol and others had to issue statements warning people against following Trump's insane advice. Watch for stories in the days ahead of his cult members dying from listening to him.
BONUS II: On MSNBC this morning, former Obama press secretary Robert Gibbs on yesterday's advice-dispensing shit show: "It can't be open mic night at the Trump University Medical School."
BONUS III: Worthy of parody:
How to medical pic.twitter.com/0EDqJcy38p— Sarah Cooper (@sarahcpr) April 24, 2020
BONUS IV:
Dr. Brix is wondering how thousands of little compromises, tiny little adjustments, looking away from the direct path of rectitude could end up as an avalanche of regret. That is the look of someone realizing that Ol’ Scratch has come for the soul. https://t.co/CxEO96u26G— Tengrain 6-feet-away-or-6-feet-under (@Tengrain) April 24, 2020
UPDATE: Turns out COVID Donnie's idea about injecting disinfectant wasn't simply an ad lib musing. A quack "church" con artist wrote him a letter extolling the virtues of industrial bleach as a COVID cure a few days before the shitwaffle blurted it out at Thursday's "open mic night at Trump University Medical School."
