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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSo Trump is going with "I was being sarcastic," huh?
Trump's official response to his disinfectant comments yesterday is that he was being sarcastic. Really?
Here's Acting Under-Secretary Bryan talking about LAB STUDIES at yesterday's press conference, and the use of UV light and disinfectant on SURFACES:
And thirdly, the virus dies the quickest in the presence of direct sunlight under these conditions. And when you when you look at that chart, look at the aerosol as you breathe it; you put it in a room, 70 to 75 degrees, 20 percent humidity, low humidity, it lasts the half-life is about an hour. But you get outside, and it cuts down to a minute and a half. A very significant difference when it gets hit with UV rays.
And, Mr. President, while there are many unknown links in the COVID-19 transmission chain, we believe these trends can support practical decision making to lower the risks associated with the virus.
If I can have my next slide.
And when that while that comes up, youll see a number of some practical applications. For example, increasing the temperature and humidity of potentially contaminated indoor spaces appears to reduce the stability of the virus. And extra care may be warranted for dry environments that do not have exposure to solar light.
Were also testing disinfectants readily available. Weve tested bleach, weve tested isopropyl alcohol on the virus, specifically in saliva or in respiratory fluids. And I can tell you that bleach will kill the virus in five minutes; isopropyl alcohol will kill the virus in 30 seconds, and thats with no manipulation, no rubbing just spraying it on and letting it go. You rub it and it goes away even faster. Were also looking at other disinfectants, specifically looking at the COVID-19 virus in saliva.
This is not the end of our work as we continue to characterize this virus and integrate our findings into practical applications to mitigate exposure and transmission.
And now here's Trump COMPLETELY MISINTERPRETING WHAT BRYAN WAS SAYING, BECAUSE HE'S A DUMB MOTHERFUCKER:
ACTING UNDER SECRETARY BRYAN: Well get to the right folks who could.
THE PRESIDENT: Right. And then I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in a minute. One minute. And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning. Because you see it gets in the lungs and it does a tremendous number on the lungs. So it would be interesting to check that. So, that, youre going to have to use medical doctors with. But it sounds it sounds interesting to me.
So well see. But the whole concept of the light, the way it kills it in one minute, thats thats pretty powerful.
What about that is in any way sarcastic?
And even if he WAS being sarcastic (which he wasn't), WHY IN THE FUCK WOULD YOU, THE PRESIDENT, CHOOSE THAT MOMENT TO BE SARCASTIC ABOUT YOUR OWN ADMINISTRATION'S STUDIES OF THE CORONAVIRUS???
This just gets more pathetic by the minute.
(And by the way, Bryan's "We'll get to the right folks who could" comment is also appalling, given that he should have corrected Trump instead of egging him on.)
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,157 posts)He'll regurgitate whatever bits and snippets he thinks he heard, and act as though he's an expert because of it.
tblue37
(65,269 posts)how much he knows about such things!
andym
(5,443 posts)Because it wasn't sarcastic.
scarytomcat
(1,706 posts)How many times is he going to step on his tongue?
The end can not come soon enough.
Watchfoxheadexplodes
(3,496 posts)There
Kali
(55,006 posts)Pacifist Patriot
(24,653 posts)That wasn't sarcasm.
scarytomcat
(1,706 posts)people believe what the President of the United States says or a least they use to.
Trump, man, you can't say shit like that.
Pacifist Patriot
(24,653 posts)I'm not sure he's capable of it. And he's demonstrated time and time again how ignorant and easily swayed he is.
scarytomcat
(1,706 posts)bigtree
(85,984 posts)sdfernando
(4,929 posts)to choke on the itty bitty mushroom.
OMGWTF
(3,949 posts)RussBLib
(9,005 posts)I saw the video. He was in no way being sarcastic. He was being stupid, and conspiratorial, but not sarcastic.
If you truly were being sarcastic, how dare you make light of the fact that 50,000 Americans have now been killed thanks to your ineptitude.
jaxexpat
(6,813 posts)possibly acceptable in the midst of a national emergency? much less the actual mouth of the president?
I've been in business meetings where such juvenile foolishness would pink slip such a one into "looking for work" oblivion before the moron even knew what hit him. They used a stick with a sign on it, said "move on", when the manager waved that stick, the whole table sat up and spoke carefully, if at all. Worked kinda like the hook in old vaudeville days used to remove sub-par talent. I say, bring back that hook!
ProfessorGAC
(64,957 posts)PINO is terrible at everything so he'd be terrible at sarcasm, too!
And, it's an incredibly stupid topic to apply sarcasm, but incredibly stupid still fits the profile.
TDale313
(7,820 posts)A) That in no way sounded like he was joking or being sarcastic
B) His supporters- many on the right, actually, completely lack the ability to get sarcasm. They legit think hes the chosen one. Theyre gonna take his musings at face value. stfu about injecting or ingesting disinfectants, asshole. No matter why you said it. We know you dont care about people dying, but think about the bad press when someone listens to you and dies. Or kills someone else because of your verbal diarrhea.
Laelth
(32,017 posts)His first, issued by his press secretary earlier today, was that his remarks were taken out of context.
Either way, his defenses are lame. We all know what we heard. Trump was clear, unambiguous, and serious (not sarcastic in any way).
THIS is what the President said we were testing, YESTERDAY, to cure COVID-19:
-Laelth
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,986 posts)malaise
(268,845 posts)He made it worst by demonstrating that he has no clue about the meaning of sarcasm
UTUSN
(70,671 posts)She was. like, "DON'T call on me, please!1 I'm doing all I can to work within the system by walking a fine line with you!1 I'm putting my integrity and reputation on the line!1"
lunatica
(53,410 posts)OMG! OMG! OHMYGOD! Dont look at him! Hes looking at me! WTF do I do?! Shit! Shit! Hes looking at me! He wants me to agree with him! What do I do?! GODPLEASEHELPME! FUCK! OHSHIT OHSHIT!
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Docreed2003
(16,855 posts)Unlike when that commie Michelle Obama tried to force vegetables on our children...smdh. That's how those fuckers think.
Solly Mack
(90,762 posts)Calls himself intelligent for intuitively grasping the facts. Well, OK - points to head and implies he has a good brain.
Gets mocked.
Now claims his suggestion - spoken with an inquisitive tone and inflection - was sarcasm. He even looked to the experts for validation and confirmation.
Yeah, right. (don't even have to hear me say that to hear the sarcasm...and we heard Trump make his idiotic remarks)
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,309 posts)Donald Trump is a loser and a fool. He's so stupid he gets on national tv to show everybody how much of a loser and fool that he is!
Does he even have enough sense to realize everybody's disgusted with him?
steve2470
(37,457 posts)Of course, they won't.
I mean, what does it take for them to ask him to resign ? Strip naked, run around the WH press room, act like
a crazed ape and scream for a naked boy or girl ? Of course, then the excuse would be " performance art ".
tavernier
(12,374 posts)Now THATS SARCASM.
stillcool
(32,626 posts)and if he did say it, he didn't mean it the way you make it sound when you say it. He never said that. Round and round and round we go.
cayugafalls
(5,639 posts)"I don't take responsibility."
Teflon don...mafia king.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)He would have joined them in a hearty laugh, right?
kentuck
(111,069 posts)Not.
It was just a stream of insane consciousness.
JDC
(10,121 posts)Just absolutely, ridiculously insane. 50000+ Americans dead, more dying everyday and he has nothing other than his fragile, constantly bruised ego to massage and try to make excuses for. His self absorption is mind boggling.
Ford_Prefect
(7,875 posts)That's when people said "That's it! Enough!"
When are we going to hear that on camera?
Laelth
(32,017 posts)I look forward to seeing the rats on the R side jumping ship and distancing themselves from Agent Orange.
-Laelth
Takket
(21,550 posts)You grin, you snicker, maybe you wink. At the end you laugh it off and say Im just kidding.
Sarcasm has a body language to it.
He was dead serious.
plimsoll
(1,668 posts)Basically saying that Trump was talking about super duper technologies.
OK, Trump says it was sarcasm Scott. So either you were wrong or he's lying. Scott could still be wrong even if Trump is lying, but the contortions you get from this stuff is just hilarious.
(Get the popcorn.)
cutroot
(875 posts)treestar
(82,383 posts)Deplorables. That's all they need. Further looking into the point to find it is hollow is never needed. Deplorables don't even know what sarcasm is. They do not recognize it when it is done. So Twitler gave them a mysterious word to use in the argument, and they will use it and be done!
DesertRat
(27,995 posts)In stunning reversal, Genghis Khan walks back controversial comments: "When I said we must disembowel our enemies and feast on their entrails, I was being sarcastic."
Mr. Khan was reportedly distressed that much of his bloodthirsty horde took his words literally. "I assumed everyone knew that when I said to display our mortal enemies' severed heads as trophies, my hordes understood I was just trying to get a reaction from the Fake News media."
Link to tweet
Laelth
(32,017 posts)-Laelth
Cha
(297,029 posts)listen to any clips but I heard him say that until I couldn't stand it anymore. He was NOT being ******* "sarcastic.
trump was being STUPIDrumph as USUAL.
mercuryblues
(14,526 posts)robbedvoter
(28,290 posts)Link to tweet
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GoCubsGo
(32,078 posts)It's what right-wingers use when they get called out on their stupidity, ignorance, racism and general hatefulness. Along with "I'm just trying to piss off you damn liberals." It's getting old, and anyone with any intelligence and decency ain't buying it.