Trump 'can't imagine why' US disinfectant calls spiked

You know what, i believe him. It takes someone with a brain slightly bigger than a squashed raspberry to comprehend this.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52450692

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Reply 1

Bang Outta Order

Ermmm no. Who in their right mind would believe that bleach is safe to inject or consume in any way. Clearly he was joking. Seriously. Who in their right mind. Also, it's hardly an emergency that state hotlines bling.

Reply 2

Bang Outta Order

Trump on the emergency hotlines

Reply 3

Drewski

Original post by Bang Outta Order

Clearly you've not seen the mental capacity of some of Trump's supporters...

Reply 4

Napp

Original post by Bang Outta Order

Ermmm no. Who in their right mind would believe that bleach is safe to inject or consume in any way.

Trumps supporters, obviously.

Reply 5

z-hog

Original post by Bang Outta Order

The sort of thing Trumpophobes could easily make up and disseminate through their network, nobody would be the wiser.

Reply 6

username1732133

Original post by Bang Outta Order

This is sarcasm? Right?

Reply 7

Ascend

Original post by Bang Outta Order

Clearly he was joking.

Does this sound like he's joking?

[video="youtube;vA_39Yqb0QA"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vA_39Yqb0QA[/video]

Original post by z-hog

The sort of thing Trumpophobes could easily make up and disseminate through their network, nobody would be the wiser.

Yeah, those trumpophobes and the propaganda of disseminating what Trump says...

Reply 8

z-hog

Original post by Ascend

Yeah, those trumpophobes and the propaganda of disseminating what Trump says...

Trumpophobes are too quick off the mark, what I meant is that we don't really know if there has been a spike in such calls or the nature of them. I don't know and neither do you, the fact that the BBC and their US counterparts put it about is no guarantee of anything.

Reply 9

StriderHort

Original post by Bang Outta Order

Lots of people, seriously, bleach drinking was doing the rounds 6 odd months ago in some places as a miracle snake oil. (oh wait, you said people in their right mind :rolleyes:

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Reply 10

Ascend

Original post by z-hog

It's not the BBC and "their US counterparts" who are making these claims but US governors.

Reply 11

Bang Outta Order

Original post by BuryMathsTutor

This is sarcasm? Right?

Wrong.

Trump Supporters

Original post by Drewski

Clearly you've not seen the mental capacity of some of Trump's supporters...

Original post by Napp

Trumps supporters, obviously.

You're not a Trump supporter. And clearly you think he was being serious. So.....i don't get your point.

Reply 14

Ascend

Original post by Bang Outta Order

You're not a Trump supporter. And clearly you think he was being serious. So.....i don't get your point.

Let's break it down for you:

Trump wasn't joking. Critics who took him seriously criticised him for his idiotic remarks. Supporters who took him seriously idiotically ingested disinfectants.

Reply 15

Drewski

Original post by Bang Outta Order

You're not a Trump supporter. And clearly you think he was being serious. So.....i don't get your point.

Well done, you are now on the same intellectual level as those drinking bleach.

Trump was not joking. He was also not thinking. He doesn't know in advance what people are going to say during his press conferences because he doesn't read briefs. He makes it up on the spot and says the first thing that pops into his head, like an impulsive toddler. Then he gets caught out, and tries to make up some nonsense about how he was joking, because he's incapable of admitting he was wrong.

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Reply 16

username1732133

Original post by Bang Outta Order

Wrong.

It seems that you don't understand how stupid Donald Trump is. He wasn't joking. He is that stupid. He has demonstrated his stupidity repeatedly.

Reply 17

z-hog

Original post by Ascend

It's not the BBC and "their US counterparts" who are making these claims but US governors.

Trumpophobic US governors, they are the BBC's counterparts. Only corroboration available is the mention of 'a reporter who noted' the alleged spike. Not good enough, lots of fake news about. Can't find any official confirmation.

Reply 18

z-hog

Original post by BuryMathsTutor

It seems that you don't understand how stupid Donald Trump is. He wasn't joking. He is that stupid. He has demonstrated his stupidity repeatedly.

What's really stupid is to suggest Trump recommended anybody do it.

Reply 19

Ascend

Original post by z-hog

This is like arguing with a Muslim apologist screaming "Islamophobia" over everything. You just have a different Prophet.

From the (Republican) Maryland governor:

“We had hundreds of calls in our hotline here in Maryland about people asking about injecting or ingesting these disinfectants, which is, you know, hard to imagine that people thought that that was serious.”

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/coronavirus-trump-disinfectant-bleach-treatments-maryland-larry-hogan-governor-a9485756.html