Trying to wriggle out of the backlash he received for his outlandish suggestions, US President Donald Trump has said that he was being “ sarcastic” when he told his medical experts that they should consider using UV light, heat, or injecting disinfectants into the COVID-19 patients as a potential treatment.
Trump faced intense rebuke on Thursday for his far-fetched suggestion from health experts who urged people not to listen to the President’s “ dangerous” advice.
Doctors and the company that makes Lysol and Dettol warned that injecting or ingesting disinfectants was dangerous.
When Trump was asked about his comments during a bill signing on Friday, he said: “ I was asking a question sarcastically to reporters like you just to see what would happen”.
“ I was asking a sarcastic — and a very sarcastic question — to the reporters in the room about disinfectant on the inside,” he said.
Trump suggested he was talking about disinfectants that can safely be rubbed on people’s hands.
“ But it does kill it, and it would kill it on the hands and that would make things much better. That was done in the form of a sarcastic question to the reporters,” The Hill quoted Trump as saying.