He wasn't joking. He also wasn't talking about people injecting or ingesting disinfectants. He was talking about it being used in a medical setting, to the guy doing research on it. He's a businessman, he's used to spit-balling. Also, if you watched the entire press conference and not just the sound byte, he says several times he's not a doctor and it's not something that is known.
Should he have said it during a press conference? No. Should he have said he was being sarcastic? No. Was he telling people to go drink bleach? No. Were his intentions to find a solution to the problem? Yes.
It's the same as de Blasio saying when this is all over he's going to have a ticker tape parade. The intent was saying he wanted to honor the health care workers. But people chose to take him literally and go after him for it. And what good does that do?
We have to stop looking for the next thing we can use to go after somebody about.
Also, you don't just "fire" an elected official . That's why we have elections.
You don't spitball or grandstand or play the businessman when the world is burning. You LEAD. Adulthood. It is required. Bush did it during 9/11, Obama during the fiscal debacle of 2008- . Roosevelt, Lincoln, Washington, Nixon, Johnson, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Reagan all LED. In fact, nearly every president we have had has acted like a grown up when big stuff went down.
This is not me being partisan. I live in a multistate area and our leaders are both parties (more than 2 actually if you count down ballot) and they are banding together and working on cooperative strategies and tactical action and lives are being saved.
We have, as a nation, by far the worst COVID outcomes, however, and national leadership could have prevented at least some of this. Instead, the president spends time undercutting his science and medical advisors and putting on a show. And then he plays Russian Roulette with nonsense about internal use of disinfectants, many of which are potent poisons!! It is a moral failure and borders on criminal. It is ungodly, unscientific, and just plain wrong.
I am not putting him down. He is shaming himself and the country and people are dying because of misinformation, disinformation, opportunity wasted and money squandered. Obstacles actually are put in the way of those trying to fix things.
A world of no! Don't die. Don't let innocents die. Basic Buffy morality. Show up. It is the mission that matters. He has no idea who or what is the mission. EVERY other president has done better.
