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Donald Trump: comments about injecting disinfectant were 'sarcastic'
- Published_at:2020-04-24
- Category:News & Politics
- Channel:Guardian News
- tags: donald trump trump trump disinfectant trump inject disinfectant hand sanitizer coronavirus us coronavirus cases coronavirus death toll lockdown coronavirus treatment coronavirus disinfectant lysol dettol trump sarcastic trump backtracks vaccine trump sarcasm trump bleach trump disinfectant sarcastic 2020 us gdnpfpnewsus politics gdnpfpnewspolitics chlorine dioxide corona virus coronavirus trump gdnpfpnewsworld coronavirus covid-19 covid trump disinfectant light
- description: Donald Trump insisted on Friday that he was being 'sarcastic' when he raised the possibility of disinfectants being injected into people to combat Covid-19, prompting the makers of Lysol and Dettol to say its products should 'under no circumstance' be used as an internal treatment for the coronavirus. The president instead focused on another potentially dangerous idea: using disinfectant on the hands. Household disinfectant is not intended for use on the body Subscribe to Guardian News on YouTube ► http://bit.ly/guardianwiressub Coronavirus US live: Trump tries to backtrack on disinfectant remarks, claiming they were 'sarcastic' ► https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2020/apr/24/coronavirus-us-live-news-trump-cuomo-georgia-cases-latest Revealed: leader of group peddling bleach as coronavirus 'cure' wrote to Trump this week ► https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/24/revealed-leader-group-peddling-bleach-cure-lobbied-trump-coronavirus Support the Guardian ► https://support.theguardian.com/contribute Today in Focus podcast ► https://www.theguardian.com/news/series/todayinfocus The Guardian YouTube network: The Guardian ► http://www.youtube.com/theguardian Owen Jones talks ► http://bit.ly/subsowenjones Guardian Football ► http://is.gd/guardianfootball Guardian Sport ► http://bit.ly/GDNsport Guardian Culture ► http://is.gd/guardianculture
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