“…Mr. IMPOTUS*, was that sarcasm?”

Maryland health authorities now issuing a don’t ingest bleach warning in response to getting queries about it. Even if the President was being sarcastic, he’s caused overstretched health workers to have to spend time debunking his comments.— Katty Kay (@KattyKay_) April 24, 2020

So the WH has abandoned the pretense that Trump was somehow taken “out of context” during a live TV briefing and now they are going with “sarcasm.” Because he “sarcastically” asked Dr. Birx to look into junk science during the same briefing.

— Amanda Carpenter (@amandacarpenter) April 24, 2020

No sarcasm apparent. Just unhinged, dangerous speculation. “And then I see the disinfectant where it knocks it out in a minute, one minute. And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning?”
Video: pic.twitter.com/SKrJIGTZ4J https://t.co/3x02Ji4uh6

Reporter: Could you clarify your comments on injections of disinfectants?
Trump: I was asking the question sarcastically to reporters like you just to see what would happen…
Reporter: But you were asking your medical experts to look into it pic.twitter.com/T0hzizjgpN

NEW: Just now in the Oval Office the President said he asked if people should inject disinfectant sarcastically.

When I pointed out he asked the medical experts to look into it, he denied it and said it was only a question meant for reporters.

But he was asking Bill Bryan: pic.twitter.com/Q49HkfNZ2A

The White House press secretary explained the president's comments about disinfectant by saying they were taken out of context.

The president said he was being sarcastic.

Which was it?

My colleague @jenmercieca explains how Trump manages to avoid accountability for anything he says: To his followers, he’s either “telling it like it is” OR, when he’s lying, the media just doesn’t “get him” in the secret way they do and are making too big of a deal. Her book: https://t.co/UQaRTFo4za pic.twitter.com/8vihG8acU2