Opinions: Trump's idiotic remarks should be condemned by anyone who cares about the nation's health

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Opinions

Trump’s idiotic remarks should be condemned by anyone who cares about the nation’s health

By Kathleen Parker
Columnist
April 24, 2020 at 5:48 p.m. EDT

The darkly tongue-in-cheek Darwin Awards periodically disabuse us of the notion that nobody’s stupid enough to, say, consider injecting themselves with disinfectant to cure covid-19. ... That is, no one except, perhaps, Donald Trump.

The president said at Thursday’s White House coronavirus briefing that it would be “interesting” to investigate the possibility that disinfectant cleansers, which kill viruses quickly on surfaces, might have the same effect on viruses infecting the human body — if we could just get the stuff inside us. Volunteers, anyone?

“And then I see the disinfectant where it knocks it out in a minute. One minute,” said Trump. “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’d be interesting to check that.”

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I wouldn’t doubt that a few 6-year-olds entertained the same thoughts as Trump, but it’s safe to assume that no one who routinely cleans houses is going to try out the president’s “interesting” idea. In a related matter, the Food and Drug Administration issued a warning Friday against non-hospital uses of hydroxychloroquine as a covid-19 treatment, which Trump has also touted, saying the drug can lead to death.

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Kathleen Parker
Kathleen Parker writes a twice-weekly column on politics and culture. She received the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 2010. Follow https://twitter.com/kathleenparker

[luvallpeeps]

1. It's been a minute since you've seen a trump rally has'nt it?

Now that was a little sarcasm. But in every way, small and large, important and petty, this guy is trump all day long. We're watching in utter horror as our worst nightmares are happening. So yea, it was funny and tacky when he served champion ball teams cold fast food at the white house. When he ignores an impending deadly pandemic, not so funny or tacky. It's deadly. Can November get here soon enough?

[dlk]

2. Imagine the media's response if Hillary has suggested anything so irrational

They would have gone ballistic for weeks, even months. Rich, white men get a pass.

[sop]

3. Benghazi

(2016 Vanity Fair article) "After a more than two-year investigation...33 hearings...congressional investigations...four public hearings...estimated cost of $7 million...Republican House Benghazi Committee released their long-awaited report on the 2012 terrorist attack in Benghazi that resulted in the death of four Americans...general election five months away...the 800-page report...once again failed to find a smoking gun to pin the tragedy on Clinton."

[dlk]

4. And that overzealous hysteria was in response to rational behavior

Imagine Benghazi times 100.

[dalton99a]

6. +1. Or Any Democrat.

[ProfessorGAC]

5. Parker Was A Right Wing Crank

Apparently she didn't do enough from the inside to prevent the crazies from taken ng over her previous conservative movement.
She was a Reagan worshipper and a savage critic of Clinton.I don't care what she's saying now.
Wrote this for those whose newspapers did not carry her columns 25 years ago.