President Trump seemed pretty sincere when he doled out some dangerous medical advice on Thursday. Just ask Fox News' Bret Baier.
In Thursday's White House Coronavirus Task Force briefing, President Trump gave a very detailed explanation of how doctors may want to consider injecting disinfectants like bleach into coronavirus patients' bodies, seeing as a disinfectants "knocks out" the virus "in a minute." Trump defended his comments as "sarcastic" on Friday after receiving a wave of backlash, but Baier doubted that was the case. "Well, that's not how it looked in the briefing," Baier said on Friday. "It didn't seem like it was coming off as sarcastic when he was talking and turning to Dr. [Deborah] Birx on the side."
Fox Business host Neil Cavuto was even more clear about how real Trump's "unsettling" suggestions seemed. "The president was not joking in his remarks yesterday when he talked about injecting people with disinfectant, nor were we imagining the incredulous looks he got from his medical team when he made the suggestion," Cavuto declared on his show on Friday. Fox News medical contributor Marc Siegel meanwhile appeared on Fox News to break down exactly why injecting yourself with bleach is a bad idea, as if that had to be explained.
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