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.

  • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca
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    9 hours ago

    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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      60 minutes ago

      So your Snopes link splits female arm hairs, admits it with a quote, then says the assertion is wrong, after demonstrating it’s right. Laughing out loud.

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      Again, the concept of using an injected antiviral was given to him by Stanford

      I don’t understand how you think that’s a defense of any kind.

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      8 hours ago

      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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      8 hours ago

      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.