'People Will Die' If They Listen to Trump and drink his disinfectant Kool-Aid
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"It
is April 24, 2020 and #DontDrinkBleach is trending on Twitter," tweeted poet Remi Kanazi. "The
world has not ended, but may soon."
The
president's comments came during a press conference on the White House's
handling of the pandemic, which has, as of press time, killed over 50,000
Americans.
"I
see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in a minute—one minute—and is
there a way we can do something like that by injection inside, or almost a
cleaning?" Trump asked Department of Homeland Security
scientist William Bryan during the briefing. "Because you see it gets
in the lungs and it does a tremendous number on the lungs, so it would be
interesting to check that"
"My
concern is that people will die" if they listen to the president, said New York-Presbyterian/Columbia
University Medical Center director of global health in emergency
medicine Craig Spencer.
Politicians
and commentators on Twitter seized on the #DontDrinkBleach hashtag as a way to
both mock the president and to urge Americans not to take Trump's advice.
"Anyone
who does this will not die from #COVID19 because they will have already
poisoned themselves to death," tweeted Rep. Frederica Wilson
(D-Fla.). "Do NOT try this! #DontDrinkBleach."