Trump’s idea for “disinfecting” people to fight disease is already being done

[mystery-ak]

April 25, 2020
Trump’s idea for “disinfecting” people to fight disease is already being done
By Andrea Widburg

If you spent any time on the internet on Thursday and Friday, or read a hard copy of a newspaper, you would undoubtedly have read stories or social media posts saying that President Trump told Americans to inject themselves with bleach or Lysol to cure coronavirus. Of course, that's not true. The media were either stupid or malicious when they misreported Trump's words. What Trump said was straightforward and thoughtful:

“And then I saw the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in one minute, and is there a way we could do something like that by injection inside or almost a cleaning,” the president said during his White House press briefing. “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 American media, however, collapsed in paroxysms of laughter. That stupid Donald Trump. He’s telling people to drink Lysol. Speaking of those same media folks, Ben Rhodes, who was “Obama’s foreign-policy guru,” had this to say:

“The average reporter we talk to is 27 years old, and their only reporting experience consists of being around political campaigns. That’s a sea change. They literally know nothing.”

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[PeteS in CA]

I know I'm necroing a thread ... I recently did what I wish I'd done more timely, I found a transcript of the April 23 briefing, https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/donald-trump-coronavirus-press-conference-transcript-april-23

The first relevant section starts at 29:46. It's a bit muddled, but Trump was talking about using light as a disinfectant, not bleach or Lysol or IPA (either kind, ).

At 34:05 a reporter - not Trump - mentioned bleach for the first time in the conference. Responding, Trump made clear that the context was not about injections but about cleaning object surfaces.

As far as I can tell, scanning through the transcript twice, Trump never even used the word "bleach". TBH, finding that surprised me some. I really did not expect the MSM would lie so utterly blatantly about what Trump said as to claim he used a word he clearly did not. Mea goofa.