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Why do people care about what medical advice Trump has to offer? We don't really need a vaccine, we can just drink bleach!

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I think Trump’s sarcasm is lost on some people and thats why they dislike him so passionately.

It's quite amazing how people twist to pretzels to explain some ridiculous statements by the president, because no way person that I support would be this stupid.

Then you have people posting pictures of "UV infusions" and others saying it was sarcasm. Like if sarcasm in that context makes that statement any better. Besides, no matter how you slice this, that wasn't a sarcasm[1]. There is a reason why his daily briefings ended abruptly after that statement.

I might disagree with Republican policies, but I can understand them, but we are currently are being led by a moron. People in his administration are putting guardrails to ensure what he is doing isn't completely insane, but as more and more of his administration is being replaced by "yes" men, then more and more damage he is capable of inflicting.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33QdTOyXz3w

The twisting of logic is by you, a person incapable of recognizing absurdity as a joke instead of real. You are Poes law incarnate because it serves a political purpose. If I put a gun to your head and asked you to guess whether Trump meant it or not you would say he didnt. You know it. I know it. The only people who dont know it are the people who are uninformed who you hope to sway with your pearl-clutching rhetoric. Anyone with a third grade education those bleachers bad for you. Duhhh

You're absolutely right, he sarcastically spoke for 3 and half minutes, during a press conference about deadly pandemic, to the clear shock of Dr. Brix (and I'm sure other medical staff, but we only have her on video) and then he stopped doing press conferences, because joke was so great.

But who was the audience?

Dude you voted for a person who managed to bankrupt a casino!

Trump has created over 500 business with about 4 of them going bankrupt. Last I checked 2/3 businesses fail. Atlantic City has a lot more problems than bankrupt casinos. The entire state is democrat run (Corey Booker Anyone?) and it's not like Trump's casino is the only one to fail in AC. Conversely the Trump hotel in Vegas is doing just fine even without a casino. That kind of ruins your whole Trump is inept argument on the casino front or else that one would be bankrupt too regardless of location.

> He added: "I see the disinfectant that 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? As you see, it gets in the lungs, it does a tremendous number on the lungs, so it would be interesting to check that." [1]

There's video of this. He is 100% serious.

[1] https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-suggests...

Maybe he should stop using sarcasm then. Being a good communicator is part of his job.

In the incident alluded to by the above comment, there was no sarcasm. It was pure, honest ignorance.

If you ask people why they hate Trump, "sarcasm" will probably not come up too much.

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