4/24/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: [Reporter: “Mr. President, can you clarify your comments about injections of disinfectant? They were quite provocative.”] “No, I was asking a question sarcastically to reporters like you just to see what would happen. Now, disinfectant for doing this maybe on the hands would work. And I was asking the question of the gentleman who was there yesterday, Bill, because when they say that something will last three, or four hours, or six hours, but if the sun is out or if they use disinfectant, it goes away in less than a minute. Did you hear about this yesterday? But I was asking a very sarcastic question to the reporters in the room about disinfectant on the inside. But it does kill it and it would kill it on the hands and that would make things much better. That was done in the form of a sarcastic question to the reporters. Okay?”

-Donald Trump as quoted by Rev, “Transcript: Donald Trump Signs Relief Bill, Says Comments on Injecting Disinfectant Were ‘Sarcastic,’” rev.com, Apr. 24, 2020