Why are people taking Trump's disinfectant comments seriously?

StoneByStone said:
They really need to lock him in his room until this whole thing is over. Reporters are asking him serious questions in a time where people are scared and he's throwing tantrums and asking if he can eat disinfectant with his glue tonight.
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It seems they are, for now anyway... I doubt he can play along/stay out of the limelight more than a day or two...

He believes, & prob rightly so, that is his position is maintained by his control of the media narrative...

I can only think of a few days here & there where the daily media barrage wasn't about him..

Like the when the virus was dominating the media cycle, he seemed threatened.......
 
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Bill said:
It seems they are, for now anyway... I doubt he can play along/stay out of the limelight more than a day or two...

He believes, & prob rightly so, that is his position is maintained by his control of the media narrative...

I can only think of a few days here & there where the daily media barrage wasn't about him..

Like the w/ the media dominating the cycle, he seemed threatened.......
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Yeah, if he isn't the main story in the media, he gets mad and starts acting up. Like a little kid who wants more attention.
 
Darth Omar said:
If there are people who will drink disinfectant over this maybe we should just let nature takes its course lol.

And I am correct and I’ll stay correct until someone can prove otherwise. I don’t know why Trump claimed sarcasm when it wasn’t necessary. Maybe he think it’s pointless to try and convince the media their wrong.

That’s a fair point, actually.
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Nope, on this you are incorrect and always will be.
 
Grajonca said:
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Every time you think Donald Trump has lost his talent for making people’s heads explode, he somehow excels himself. His latest? Telling Americans that injecting disinfectant and shining UV light could cure Covid-19 patients. You’ll have seen the clip already, everybody has, but it is worth watching again:

Trump suggests injecting #coronavirus patients with #disinfectant or “very powerful light,” alarming experts.
This was a Trumpian masterpiece. I particularly enjoyed the way he turned to the experts for validation, while his mouth trotted out the peculiar ideas. And I find it hilarious, even though I know we are all supposed to be horrified that the US Commander-in-Chief, the leader of the free world, can sound quite so bonkers and incoherent. People might now die, the pundits gravely inform us, from stabbing disinfectant into their veins because they believe every word that comes out of the President’s mouth. What the pundits really mean: Trump fans are gullible, poor and idiotic.

Editorial teams across America will now be scouring the local news networks for stories of dumb MAGA-heads killing themselves by following Trump’s medical ‘advice’ — even though it wasn’t really advice — more a discursive spiel. Maybe they’ll get lucky. There are crazy people out there.

But this brings us back to that old journalistic chestnut about taking ‘seriously, not literally’. In 2016, Salena Zito pointed out that Trump’s supporters took him seriously, not literally — while his enemies and the media did the opposite. It was a brilliant insight at the time, but perhaps missed the truth by an inch. Trump voters don’t necessarily even take Trump all that seriously — he’s just a brilliant and highly amusing weapon for irritating the elites they despise. The crazier he is, the crazier they go. It works every time.

So while CNN anchors will have spasms of apoplexy at the thought that the poorly educated might start injecting themselves with disinfectant, most Trump fans will just laugh. They know that Trump’s medical insights are not meant to be taken seriously or literally.

They also know that it may just take something mad-sounding to answer this awful virus. Trump does have an uncanny habit of being right, albeit often in a very roundabout way. We shall see. They do say that sunlight is the best disinfectant.

https://app.spectator.co.uk/2020/04...-disinfectant-comments-seriously/content.html
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Because they're dumb fucks
 
(Republican Governor of Maryland), Hogan, whose emergency management agency sent an alert after Trump’s comments, said “hundreds of calls” had been made to the state’s hotline asking if ingesting Clorox or alcohol cleaning products would help fight coronavirus.

“People listen to these press conferences,” Hogan said. “They certainly pay attention when the president of the United States is standing there giving a press conference … when misinformation comes out or you just say something that pops in your head, it does send a wrong message.
He added, “We had to put out that warning to make sure that people were not doing something like that, which would kill people.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...atch-what-he-says/ar-BB13dPxR?ocid=spartandhp
 
Bill said:
I like Omar, he can be brutally honest @ times IMHO but it seems pretty clear to me & his taking a walk down the road to nowhere, just south of the land of make believe..

Well as a fellow bad liberal don't you have a few?? I won't tell anyone.......:)

Some talk about showing up @ your house even :laugh::laugh:

That sound is just the closing of my basket weaving case, you can come in now...
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Yes, I have that particular weapon and am not a 2nd amendment nutcase. Regulate me and all others.
Even Scalia admits the 2nd amendment does not prohibit regulation of guns. I like Omar too.
 
Micawber said:
Yes, I have that particular weapon and am not a 2nd amendment nutcase. Regulate me and all others.
Even Scalia admits the 2nd amendment does not prohibit regulation of guns.
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There is an illusion that all ppl on the left want to "disarm" the nation, while in fact many actually own guns........

While the fed forces states to raise their drinking ages, some states you have to be 21 to even buy tobacco but insuring the mentally ill have their rights to purchase guns etc shouldn't be infringed upon...... :palm:
 
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(Republican Governor of Maryland), Hogan, whose emergency management agency sent an alert after Trump’s comments, said “hundreds of calls” had been made to the state’s hotline asking if ingesting Clorox or alcohol cleaning products would help fight coronavirus.

“People listen to these press conferences,” Hogan said. “They certainly pay attention when the president of the United States is standing there giving a press conference … when misinformation comes out or you just say something that pops in your head, it does send a wrong message.
He added, “We had to put out that warning to make sure that people were not doing something like that, which would kill people.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...cid=spartandhp
 
Bill said:
There is an illusion that all ppl on the left want to "disarm" the nation, while in fact many actually own guns........

While the fed forces states to raise their drinking ages, some states you have to be 21 to even buy tobacco but insuring the mentally ill have their rights to purchase guns etc shouldn't be infringed upon...... :palm:
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Nothing like having a constitutional amendment in your back pocket to make being unreasonable at every turn seem reasonable. The NRA has succeeded in weaponizing that amendment as much as their guns.
 
jimmymccready said:
(Republican Governor of Maryland), Hogan, whose emergency management agency sent an alert after Trump’s comments, said “hundreds of calls” had been made to the state’s hotline asking if ingesting Clorox or alcohol cleaning products would help fight coronavirus.

“People listen to these press conferences,” Hogan said. “They certainly pay attention when the president of the United States is standing there giving a press conference … when misinformation comes out or you just say something that pops in your head, it does send a wrong message.
He added, “We had to put out that warning to make sure that people were not doing something like that, which would kill people.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...cid=spartandhp
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Well there is certainly a downside to listening to & believing ppl that have no idea what they are doing or talking about..

Kinda makes one wonder what other kinda qualified bad advice he has given, or they have followed :thinking:
 
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