President Trump didn't really shock anyone Monday when he revealed he's been taking hydroxychloroquine as an apparent preventative measure against COVID-19. But given the performative way Trump described his regimen while health experts listening in shook their heads, well, Sarah Cooper just had to step in.
The comedian has been finding tons of fodder in Trump's handling of the coronavirus pandemic, lip-synching his comments and acting out auxiliary characters' presumed reactions to the outrageous things the president says. In this case, Cooper plays a disbelieving health care worker and a gleeful child accepting hydroxychloroquine like candy, along with the president. Watch it all below. Kathryn Krawczyk
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