The president said he “can’t imagine” people are ingesting disinfectant to treat COVID-19 because of his comments last week.
President Donald Trump said Monday that he is not taking any responsibility for the reported spike in people seeking help related to unsafe disinfectant use, even though he floated the idea of using disinfectant as a potential COVID-19 cure last week.
Trump denied that his comments had played any role in those reports at his Monday briefing, the first time he’d taken questions at a press conference since his remarks about injecting people with disinfectant and sunlight faced nearly universal condemnation. Trump later claimed that suggestion was sarcastic.
“I can’t imagine why,” Trump said Monday when a journalist noted a reported rise in the misuse of disinfectant since then. Continue reading.