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I stand by my comment. Thank you for sharing the full quote.

> I'm being flippant about "bleach", wherein he only merely suggested injecting "disinfectant"

Yes. Fact: trump did not say to inject bleach. He also did not tell the public to inject anything.

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Sorry, let me spell it out for you;

I refer to this incident colloquially as "The time trump told us to inject bleach", which would be more accurately described as "The time the president of america was so balls-on stupid that he rambled for five minutes about doctors using bleach and UV disinfectant to fight Covid, a ramble so incoherent that the CDC had to issue a warning to ignore what it appeared he was suggesting."

I have no desire to treat the "intelligence" behind that statement - or those with full throated support of his incredible genius - with any authority.

The "White Power" was the evil (though, quite stupid in its own right) part. The "Bleach" was the "stupid" part of my comment, and I stand by it.

You mean the time a president (a non medical expert who doesn’t claim to be) tried to theorize about mechanisms by which a covid treatment could be delivered using ordinary language? And all of those mechanisms are real forms of treatment in other contexts?

Dear Leader is never wrong. There is no COVID in ba sing se.

Communication is a two way street, and the fact that people heard “inject bleach” means that’s what Trump communicated. That we are arguing about this years later proves the point. You can say that’s not what he meant, but that’s what he communicated. He had experts there that day who are eloquent and have precise command over the science and the English language, unlike him. He chose to sideline them because his ego wanted attention, so he confused the nation at a time we were in need of clarity. He played no role except to make everything worse. His absence would have been the best thing he could have done for everyone that day. Failure of leadership at a critical juncture.

> the fact that people heard “inject bleach” me

You mean how did the aggressive media find a sentence they could give to their base to get clicks, that he didn’t even say? Give me a break.

Miscommunications happen. Now you’ve been corrected. Stop repeating false claims.

These communications were from Trump directly to people, they heard it with their own ears. And you can't even make it out to be a partisan thing because Trump's own experts in the room reacted with visible shock when he made those statements. I think it's fair to say if the President had done his job and let experts do the emergency communicating, no directives approximating "inject yourself with bleach" would have been understood by the general public. And that's why the failure lies with him.

> Miscommunications happen. Now you’ve been corrected. Stop repeating false claims.

I have not repeated this claim. My point is because miscommunications happen, the person in charge should have left it up to experts instead of just riffing, because now his sloppy words will live on forever.

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