President Trump suggested injecting household disinfectant as a possible cure for COVID-19 last Thursday, as The Late Show — and every other late-night show — noted Monday.
Trump supporters spent an "entire day defending him" before "the president went back on TV to make his fans look like idiots, too," claiming his suggestion was "sarcastic," Noah said, laughing. "When all of this is over, and other countries are asking Americans, 'How the hell did you elect Donald Trump?' Americans can be, like, 'No, dude, dude, we were just being sarcastic."
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"Can we claim we were being sarcastic when we elected him president" and get rid of him now? Jimmy Kimmel asked. "Trump spent the weekend trying to pretend he wasn't really suggesting we should inject disinfectant into our bodies," but everyone from the EPA to Lysol felt it necessary to repudiate Trump's comments. "I think this might be the first president ever to embarrass a cleaning product," Kimmel said.
"The quarantine is driving everyone a little crazy, except Donald Trump — it's driving him a lot crazy," The Late Show's Stephen Colbert said. "Injecting bleach to fight the coronavirus? It's not enough that his supporters are all white on the outside."
"Trump got so much heat for the comment that he threatened to stop doing press briefings at all," Colbert said. It obviously didn't last, but he did miss Sunday's briefing, instead spending first lady Melania Trump's 50th birthday venting about reporters and their "Noble Prizes" on Twitter. "Now Trump clearly meant the Nobel Prize, except there is not Nobel Prize for journalism," he said. "So Trump revived his new favorite defense," sarcasm.
Yes, after Trump's "psychotic" disinfectant suggestion, "he cycled through his series of obviously B.S. excuses, starting with the classic, 'I was just joking,'" Late Night's Seth Meyers said. "Because if there's one thing people want from leadership during a pandemic, it's sarcasm — and that was me using sarcasm." Watch Meyers explain how this is hurting Trump politically below. Peter Weber
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