At yesterday’s coronavirus briefing, President Trump suggested ultraviolet light and injecting disinfectants as possible treatments for the coronavirus (with updates)
Trump covered other subjects -- his briefing is news and yet there is no mention of it in this morning’s Wheeling Intelligencer
Here is some video from yesterday’s briefing:
ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!?!? pic.twitter.com/dx6yJVqnyF
— David Leavitt (@David_Leavitt) April 23, 2020
As doctors and Lysol were quick to point out, drinking or injecting a disinfectant is an incredibly dangerous thing to do.
Did our morning “newspaper” cover any of this? No, but the word “Trump” does appear three times in this morning’s paper: twice on the editorial page and once on page 2 in a bridge column.
Nor did the paper cover the most recent NORC-AP poll:
A new AP-NORC poll finds few Americans regularly seek out or trust President Donald Trump as a source of information about coronavirus, despite Trump making himself the chief spokesman for the U.S. response. https://t.co/xq9mdjx7V4
— AP Politics (@AP_Politics) April 23, 2020
On the other hand, the editorial page features a political cartoon suggesting that Nancy Pelosi has killed small businesses in the United States and two Townhall syndicated columns: one, blaming illegal aliens for the plight of jobless veterans and another blaming New Yorkers for why South Dakotans can’t go to work.
Afternoon update
Trump now says he was being sarcastic:
Shorter Trump: Don't be so uptight. Have a sense of humor. https://t.co/LniiH3uqKp
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) April 24, 2020
Late afternoon update
Satiric online news source, The Onion, predicted this would happen last month (3/25):
Man Just Buying One Of Every Cleaning Product In Case Trump Announces It’s Coronavirus Cure
"America's finest news source" began:
Throwing bottles of bleach, ammonia, and Drano into a cart at his local grocery store, area man Troy Mitchell was reportedly stocking up on one of every cleaning product he could find Wednesday in case President Donald Trump announces it is a coronavirus cure. “I got toilet bowl cleaner, carpet cleaner, Swiffer WetJet refills—you name it—just so me and my family will be ready if the president announces one of these things can treat Chinese virus,” said Mitchell. . . .
It's getting tougher and tougher to write satire.
