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On April 24, President Donald Trump played down his suggestion that people could try to inject disinfectants to combat the new coronavirus, claiming he was being sarcastic.
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“I was sarcastically asking journalists like you a question, just to see what would happen,” he told reporters at the White House.
During a press conference late April 23, Trump turned to government scientists in the room and asked them about the role of disinfectants in the death of the coronavirus.
“Hit [the virus] out in a minute. One minute. And is there a way to do something like that, injecting inside or almost cleaning? Because you see that it goes into the lungs and does a large number in the lungs, “he said.
Trump now says he was speaking to a journalist, asking “a sarcastic question to a journalist.”
In fact, he was speaking directly to a Department of Homeland Security official in the meeting room, Bill Bryan.
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Sitting next to Mr. Bryan was the White House’s chief coronavirus medical adviser, Dr. Deborah Birx.
Trump often confronts journalists at his daily briefings and did so again on April 23, calling two of them “false.” He also repeated his usual complaints that the media does not treat him fairly and downplays his achievements.
However, when he discussed the injections, Trump had not even reached the question-and-answer stage of his briefing, and the entire discussion was between him and other officials.
The comment on disinfectants caused great confusion and alarm on April 24.
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The parent group for the popular household product Lysol said in a statement that “under no circumstances should our disinfectant products be administered to the human body [through injection, ingestion or any other route]”
White House spokeswoman Kayleigh McEnany said the media had taken “President Trump out of context,” but did not say he was being sarcastic.
