President Trump proposes injecting disinfectant to solve COVID. You know, like eating Tide Pods.

by Christopher Reeves

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Thursday, Apr. 23, 2020 Thursday, Apr. 23, 2020 at 5:16:22pm PDT

US President Donald Trump (L) and CDC Director Robert R. Redfield (R) participate in the daily briefing on the novel coronavirus, which causes COVID-19, in the Brady Briefing Room of the White House on April 22, 2020, in Washington, DC. (Photo by MANDEL NGAN / AFP) (Photo by MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)

In the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, sometimes you need creative solutions. From the podium today, Donald J. Trump, who somehow became President of the United States made a bold proposal: could you mainline disinfectant by injecting it into the human system. Not a joke.

The President inquires about injecting disinfectant? pic.twitter.com/75kGQkD0h7
Ã¢ÂÂ Acyn Torabi (@Acyn) April 23, 2020

The audience surrounding looks dumbfounded, as the sheer idea of injecting disinfectant — in this case, Isopropyl Alcohol — into the human body, seems too familiar to many who’ve heard Trump go wildly off script before.

Trump caused many Americans to rush to the drug stores for an untested drug treatment regime, but I’m uncertain if those same MAGA followers are now going to start drinking down Pine Sol.