Opinion | Trump is going to have more 'sarcastic' meltdowns if he stays away from the coronavirus briefings, and that's a best-case scenario. By anthonyLfisher
Trump's coronavirus briefings hit a new low last week when he mused about the healing properties of injecting disinfectant. That led to an absolute meltdown, even by Trump standards, over the weekend.
We should root for more Twitter meltdowns, however embarrassing they are, because at least they don't endanger lives.Visit Business Insider's homepage for more storiesPresident Donald Trump's Twitter meltdown over the weekend was more proof that the 45th president lacks impulse control and demonstrates at times frightening ignorance, but his online tirades are still preferable to some of his other recent communications.
The briefings, intended to inform the public on the federal government's response to the pandemic which has brought the country to the brink of an economic depression, have become fonts of conflicting information, self-pity, and self-congratulations —It's campaign season, and Trump is clearly itching to be on the road presiding over rallies before thousands of adoring followers. But that's not going to happen any time soon.
was last Thursday, when Trump mused about the possible healing powers of injecting bleach into the human body. The president told a national audience: "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? Because you see it gets in the lungs, and it does a tremendous number on the lungs. So it'd be interesting to check that. So you're going to have to use medical doctors with — but it sounds interesting to me.
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