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Zorro

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Thu Jun 4, 2020, 07:09 PM Jun 2020

Trump's Bleach Moment Now Seeming Like Career High Point

WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—Donald J. Trump’s widely ridiculed musing about the healing powers of household disinfectants now seems like a career high point, according to prominent historians.

While Trump’s suggestion that ingesting bleach could treat the coronavirus appeared, at the time, to be a catastrophic misstep, his actions in recent days have forced many historians to revise that assessment, Davis Logsdon, a Presidential historian, said.

“This week, we’ve seen Trump tear-gas peaceful protesters, offend religious leaders by using a Bible as a prop, and threaten to use the military against the American people,” Logsdon said. “In retrospect, suggesting that people ingest Clorox and put ultraviolet lights inside their bodies seems like the act of a responsible public servant.”

Logsdon added that, with unrest roiling the nation and unemployment soaring to levels not seen since the Great Depression, “Trump’s best bet may be to remind the American people, ‘I’m the man who told you to drink bleach.’ ”

“All things considered, that may be his finest hour,” the historian said.

https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/trumps-bleach-moment-now-seeming-like-career-high-point

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Trump's Bleach Moment Now Seeming Like Career High Point (Original Post) Zorro Jun 2020 OP
there's at least three more, lower points qazplm135 Jun 2020 #1
I thought there was no going lower, but nope - bunker boy is full of ways to go lower. AnotherMother4Peace Jun 2020 #2
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