The man who suggested people drink bleach during the COVID pandemic is back with another hit.

Donald Trump reportedly thinks soda is good for him, because it kills grass — and therefore it must also kill cancer cells.

The wild revelation comes via Dr. Mehmet Oz, Trump’s administrator for Medicare and Medicaid, who shared the anecdote on Donald Trump Jr.’s podcast Tuesday.

“Your dad argues that diet soda is good for him because it kills grass if you pour it on grass, so therefore it must kill cancer cells inside the body,” Oz told Trump Jr. in disbelief, to which Trump Jr. just laughed and shrugged knowingly.

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    The Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center declined to comment.

    Hahahaha. Just imagine getting that email.

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      That’s just proof that he’s onto something, Big Cancer is afraid to admit that a cheap cancer cure already exists, obviously.

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        Have you ever seen a cancer patient chugging gallons of soda? Something to think about.

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    Trump has cancer and is killing it with soda? Well, at least he’s treating it correctly. Donald, add bleach to your sodas for extra killing power. Lots of bleach.

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    I know that there’s a lot of crazy to unpack, here, but can we talk about the grass for a second? Just how much soda did he pour on his lawn? To make him think of soda as some kind of grass killer?

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    “The Democrats don’t matter… The real opposition is the media. And the way to deal with them is to flood the zone with shit”

    Steve Bannon 2018

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    The man who suggested people drink bleach during the COVID pandemic

    This honestly blew my mind, and I don’t think he’s ever topped this level of stupid. To this day it may be the dumbest thing he ever said. I’m just in awe of this reality.

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      To be fair thats not the quote “And then 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? So it’d be interesting to check that.”

      Still dumb

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      Trump never told people to inject or drink bleach. That was started on reddit.

      The UV light idea was given to Trump by virologists at Stanford, who did more stupid things in 2020 than anywhere in the world. The actual concept was to pass blood through UV light and reinfuse back to the patient.

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        virologists at Stanford, who did more stupid things in 2020 than anywhere in the world.

        Yeah I’m gonna go ahead and doubt this

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        And then I see the disinfectant [bleach], where it knocks it out in one minute. And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning.

        So he didn’t specify bleach as the disinfectant of choice. He definitely suggested that injecting disinfectant would be a possible solution. I agree, and he should go first.

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          Again, the concept of using an injected antiviral was given to him by Stanford, and that’s how he understood it as a typical American who has no level of STEM. Stanford was on a mission to remove lockdowns on behalf of their donors.

          https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-inject-bleach-covid-19/

          https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-bleach-covid-19/

          I get the hate for Trump, but you guys are no better then MAGA playing mailman.

          No, JD Vance did not actually fuck a couch.

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            I mean, I quoted where he literally said that.

            Yes, one can give him the benefit of the doubt as he is a fucking idiot. But fuck that, he’s in a position where the words he says are taken at face value and will and have killed people.

            Even if his heart were in the right place and he were merely stupid, there is no reason to defend this shit.

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            Trump didn’t make the leap to directly say to do that, but he did clearly think that strong lights and disinfectant in the body ‘should be looked into’. He was saved from directly making a terrible recommendation by having some amount of deference for the medical organizations, but did try to show ‘thought leadership’ in a very dumb direction.

            It was not some sort of Stanford spinning up wild concepts, it was Trump taking very obvious things about how we handle these things outside the body and thinking that we would be the first to ask ‘but what about inside the body?’. Yes, he phrased it as a question to be looked into, but he clearly thought there could be something to it.

            About the only credit you can give to first term Trump in this scenario is that he at least ultimately left health issues up to the health departments, even as he groused the whole time.

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      You either get cancer or you get diabetes, but you can’t have them both in this economy.

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    HAHAHA, the president of the united states is a moron! LOL, this is a very funny thing and not a terrifying problem we should address immediately!

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    Trump Jr actually laughed and said ‘Well if you think about, there might be something to it…’, something like that.

    I’ve seen the video clip.

    Then Dr. Oz is very obviously internally seething, but wearing a happy mask on top of it.