Intravenous Clorox and UV suppositories? Really?

Dr. Birx reacts pricelessly to POTUS's latest bit of genius: directing his science advisor to study using intrabronchial UV light and injectable bleach and other household clearers to treat COVID.

Charlie Sykes reacts- also pricelessly- has responded to this latest idiocy by our loose cannon leader. He ends thus:

Even as we speak, Breitbart has concocted a defense which insists that Trump didn’t say what he actually said because while, yes, the president used the word “inject” he also said that he would leave it to “medical doctors” to come up with the actual process. So see? Everything is cool because the president was only musing out loud. He didn’t release a paper outlining a bleach-injection procedure, so it’s all a hoax.

Other toadies are no doubt beavering away to find some reporter, somewhere, who also said something that was also dumb, so that they can say, “Samesies!” Of course, anti-anti-Bleachism is already a thing. And we should fully expect Salena Zito to magically overhear some swing-state voters talking about how they took the president’s bleach thing seriously, not literally.

But still:

This statement by the makers of Lysol is a direct response to ⁦@realDonaldTrump⁩:

“As a global leader in health and hygiene products, we must be clear that under no circumstance should our disinfectant products be administered into the human body.” https://t.co/ZoAlT7Fc1v

— Andrew Feinberg (@AndrewFeinberg) April 24, 2020

His original version, which I got in my inbox this morning and of course preceded Brietbart's ever-so-reasonable explanation of why we shouldn't be worried that a man capable of saying such a ridiculous thing has his finger on the nuclear button,  predicted that The Federalist would be scolding us victims of "Trump Derangement Syndrome" for questioning Mr. Trump's perfectly reasonable suggestion that it might be worth looking at injecting household cleaners into our veins as a possible treatment for COVID. Conservative commentator Mark Hemingway, whose wife, Mollie, is a senior editor at The Federalist, has tweeted that of course, Trump voters aren't stupid enough to pour Clorox on their cornflakes, as if the issue were the idiocy of Trump voters rather than the fact that the President of the United States himself had just suggested injectable household cleaners as a medical treatment.

I was unkind enough to tweet back, and remind him about that couple who drank fish tank cleaner because Mr. Trump had touted its active ingredient as a potential COVID treatment.

I suppose we'll find out what Mollie Hemingway and her colleagues at The Federalist have to say about Mr. Trump's possible "Noble Prize," as he calls it,  quite soon (oh, that's right; Mr. Trump thinks that the Nobel Prize is an award given to journalists; I'd forgotten). But given The Federalist's recent run of irresponsibility on the subject of the pandemic, I can't say that I'm too optimistic.

ADDENDUM: The president is now saying that his remarks- which he repeated several times- were meant to be sarcastic. Typically, he is unable to simply admit to having made an honest, though notably stupid, mistake.

Meanwhile, his defenders on Facebook are making the absurd claim that his repeated remarks are being taken out of context. The videos demonstrate that this excuse is as ridiculous as the suggestion that he was somehow engaging in unprompted sarcasm.

In any event, the position of TrumpWorld seems to be that he never said it, and besides, he was joking.

ADDENDUM II: Writing this Tuesday morning.

It seems that Mark Hemingway has his answer about Trump supporters ingesting Clorox. Poison control centers in Illinois are reporting an outbreak of people attempting to protect themselves from COVID by doing precisely that.