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The Week reports:
President Trump claimed Friday that he was only joking when he theorized about the medical benefits of injecting household disinfectants as a treatment for COVID-19. “I was asking it sarcastically to reporters just like you to see what would happen,” he said.
Trump’s comments, though, had not been interpreted as a joke at the time, prompting companies like Lysol to urge consumers not to ingest their products.
The state of Maryland even confirmed Friday that it had “received several calls regarding questions about disinfectant use” as it pertains to curing COVID-19. Trump has backtracked from controversy in the past by claiming his humor was misunderstood, such as when he famously asked Russian hackers to find Hillary Clinton’s emails.
Trump now claims he was not serious about injecting bleach as a counter to coronavirus: “I was asking a sarcastically to reporters just like you to see what would happen,” he tells pool, per @chrisjohnson82
— Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) April 24, 2020
Trump telling reporters he was just being “sarcastic” yesterday when he suggested that people could inject themselves with disinfectant as a treatment for coronavirus. per TV pool reporter @weijia (note: in the video it did not appear he was being sarcastic)
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) April 24, 2020
Trump says his comments on disinfectant inside people’s bodies was sarcastic pic.twitter.com/t7bPUAUU0u
— Jeff Mason (@jeffmason1) April 24, 2020
Trump says he was just being “sarcastic” yesterday when he said people should consider injecting themselves with Lysol. Now we know he doesn’t know what “sarcastic” means either.
— Adam Parkhomenko (@AdamParkhomenko) April 24, 2020
Fox host: Trump says he was being sarcastic when he talked about injecting disinfectants. Your thoughts?
Bret Baier: “Well, that’s not how it looked in the briefing… it didn’t seem like it was coming off as sarcastic when he was talking and turning to Dr. Birx on the side” pic.twitter.com/XbdJXLg2WT
— Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona) April 24, 2020
President Trump’s defence for floating batsh*t crazy claims that injecting bleach can kill #coronavirus is that he was being ‘sarcastic’.
FFS @realDonaldTrump – this is not a joke. 50,000 Americans are dead & many more will die. Stop this nonsense & get serious.— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) April 24, 2020
President Trump now says he was being “sarcastic” about his comments on disinfectants and coronavirus. Here’s the video from last night so you can judge for yourself: pic.twitter.com/AAC6XlQaiD
— Monica Alba (@albamonica) April 24, 2020
Now Trump says he was just being sarcastic.
So much for all those claims that he didn't actually say it in the first place.
— Aaron Blake (@AaronBlake) April 24, 2020