How about the inability to put sufficient links in a chain of reasoning to understand that what he is suggesting is likely to harm or even kill his most ardent supporters?
Hindsight? HINDSIGHT?? Please tell me this is a whoosh.
If it isn’t, you are hereby ordered to watch all four episodes of the new docudrama When They Was Us about the Central Park Five gross injustice. That moron now in the White House paid for huge newspaper ads in 1989, demanding that these innocent children of color be murdered for happening to be within two miles of a raped white woman.
That should have disqualified that racist anti-science asshole from ever earning a single vote for any public office, anywhere.
Correction: The Netflix series’ title is When They See Us.
I got both of these jokes.
Usually we capitalize RIP.
Much as I hate defending our Fearless Leader, I have to point out that he never actually literally suggested injecting bleach into yourself to kill the coronavirus. he DID say something incredibly stupid – I wouldn’t take that away from him. But not THAT stupid.
If you look at the transcript from the April 23 news conference, you have Trump introducing William N. Bryan, leader of the Science and Technology Directorate at the Department of Homeland Security, who talked about recent findings about fighting the virus:
(My Bolding) He unfortunately used that word “Inject”, just as an energetic term for “use”.
After he speaks,Trump takes over. He’s clearlyy absorbed the idea of ultraviolet light killing the virus, and of disinfectants like isopropyl alcohol being effective, and he remembered the idea of “injection”, and comes up with this:
He didn’t literally say to inject disifectants, specifically bleach.
Og knows how he’d inject ultraviolet light into the body. Maybe he saw the Underworld movies and thinks UV Bullets exist.
I have to agree that the idea of ultraviolet killing the virus IS pretty powerful – heck, it’s my present business. Light (not just UV, although that’s the most powerful range) kills micro-organisms by a number of mechanisms, something that has been known for well over a century. But, aside from some limited applications with angioplasty and fiberoptics, I don’t know of anyone who’s suggesting injecting UV light into the body. Or bleach.
One of the reporters explicitly verbalized this, putting it in the negative:
To which Trump, cutting off Bryan, said:
So Trump explicitly denied that anyone would be injecting bleach into the body.
Of course, as we’ve seen, what he says at one moment can be contradicted the next. But he hasn’t suggested putting bleach into anyone’s veins. Yet.
“your’n” is what he likes to rain down on Blue States, & all Dems.
“It’s mostly water. And we are mostly water. Therefore, we are bleach.”
His base might be, though. He never said to use fish tank cleaner either, but a guy and his wife here in Arizona gulped down an unknown number of chloroquine phosphate tablets they found in their house. It killed him and put her in ICU for a few days, although she recovered.
This is just lowering the bar. We’re at the point where we’re saying, "Yes, the president (who’s supposed to know stuff) is a rambling moron, but he didn’t actually say something that can be technically defined as ‘rabid fruit bat-level batshit insane.’
Exactly.
At every turn, he questions and challenges his own health experts, and people are getting mixed messages. He regularly, instinctively, reflexively parrots snake oil sales pitches. Anytime he opens his mouth at this point, he’s basically adding to the problem. He needs to shut up. He won’t, of course, but he needs to.
His language prompted a reporter to ask the POTUS (!) if he was actually promoting injecting bleach. The clip I saw gave me that impression, too. Close enough.
If he’s really promoting using bleach to disinfect things, that’s hardly worth wasting time during a press conference to announce. Sure, they did some research on it, but Clorox wipes and bleach sold out a month ago. People already know this.
I still think it’s 40% Trump latching on the first thing he hears, 30% insecurity (he is deathly afraid of being wrong - that means he’s weak), and 20% being enabled by yes-men who are too afraid of him to contradict him.
HINDSIGHT?? We saw this coming a long way back. Eyes wide open. Where were you?
I will direct you to the first post in this thread from December 6, 2016. Extensive quote from The Atlantic. My bold.
Well, Makers of Lysol Warn Against Ingesting Disinfectants– they took it seriously enough.
My bold.
Why not just come out and say, “Because that fuckface president of the United States trump suggested it might be a good idea”? Stop protecting the naked emperor!
Eye bleach- eye bleach!
I struggled with this same conundrum and came to the same conclusion. If he’s not motivated by money, what could it be? A: he’s so desperate to have some happy talk content that he repeats any nonsense he’s heard (so, he’s moved on to inhaling Lysol). He’s like human click-bait. “Doctors don’t want you to know this one weird trick to kill coronavirus!”
It was a joke, folks, responding to @TonySinclair who said I’m beginning to think it wasn’t such a good idea to have a moron for a president
To anyone with half a brain, hindsight shouldn’t have been necessary to know that Trump was a moron, way before he was even nominated.
Ok. Sorry. Next time throw in some smileys or a sarcasm footnote or something. There have been a few people here recently (though they haven’t lasted long…) who wouldn’t have been joking.
Stand down from General Quarters. 
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/24/trump-biden-china-debt-205475
In short, expect Trump to use the federal government as his piggy bank and rainy day fund. Stimulus just gives his sons the ability to programs as a way to divert contracts and cash without oversight. Naked corruption in plain sight.
Hindsight’s always 20/20.