Hydroxy-Trump: “You’re just telling me about walking a dog and what did you say doing dishes?”

Makes one wonder about side-effects from taking hydroxychloroquine, now that Trump is admitting that he’s been taking it, pulling the prophylactic over his head.

I can’t believe how much worse he keeps making it with each statement

— Acyn (@Acyn) May 18, 2020

NEWS: Rep Eliot Engel (D-NY) says State IG may have been ousted b/c he was probing Trump's steps to go around Congress in moving forward with arms sales to Saudi Arabia https://t.co/ib4wL1WHFd

— Missy Ryan (@missy_ryan) May 18, 2020

Sec Pompeo reportedly refused to sit for an interview with the State Department inspector general's office as it looked into the administration's fast-tracking of last year's $8B arms sale to Saudi Arabia by bypassing Congress with emergency declaration. https://t.co/oh6VHdXK1M

— Yamiche Alcindor (@Yamiche) May 18, 2020

State Dept IG Linick was also investigating use of emergency declaration last year to sell arms to Saudis over objections of Congress

Trump says that if the inspector general was looking into whether Mike Pompeo had staff walk his dog, as some reports indicate, doing so indicates a problem… with Democrats. "They're bothered because they're having somebody walk his dog?" pic.twitter.com/KsgzCU5LrG

— The American Independent (@AmerIndependent) May 18, 2020

“Here’s my evidence…I get a lot of positive calls about it….what do you have to lose?”

Trump says he's talking hydroxychloroquine "right now." He says he started "a couple weeks ago." He explains, "Because I think it's good. I've heard a lot of good stories."

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) May 18, 2020

Trump: "So far, I seem to be okay." Asked why he started taking this drug, he said he's gotten "so many letters," "a lot of positive letters," "and it seems to have an impact – maybe it does, maybe it doesn't."

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) May 18, 2020

In the last ten minutes Donald Trump has said that all inspector generals should be fired because "they may be Obama people," revealed that he is taking hydroxychloroquine and that the doctors who warn against it should be ignored because they are probably Democrats

— David Freedlander (@freedlander) May 18, 2020

I defy anyone with any command of the English language to listen to this and explain exactly what it is Trump is saying in this rambling, demented word salad. https://t.co/PK8c0IWSVj

— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) May 18, 2020

President Trump had previously touted the benefits of hydroxychloroquine in treating coronavirus patients, leading some medical providers to hoard the drug for themselves https://t.co/gDejZYBjOj

— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) May 18, 2020