Excuses...
Much time is wasted on excuses for the behavior of the president and vice president.A week later articles are still being published about the disinfectant and bright light news briefing. If it wasn't so stupid, the manufacturers of Lysol wouldn't have issued warnings.
I didn't buy the story about sarcasm. I hope you didn't either.
Pence visited the Mayo clinic Tuesday... a hospital filled with patients affected with COVID-19 and he doesn't wear a mask, against hospital policy. His excuse is he didn't know. Uhh... Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think he's the head of the COVID-19 task force. There is NO ACCEPTABLE EXCUSE for that defiance of rules. You cannot get into the grocery store without a mask, what makes you thing elbow bumping hospital patients and no mask be proper protocol?
Reports were the Clinic informed him (via Twitter) of the mask policy before his arrival.
That leads to another problem as Twitter is NOT an official means for communication to a government official.
Today, he visits the GM facility making ventilators. You better fu*king believe he wore a mask there. It's a clean facility making medical equipment. I'd wager if he didn't the supervisor/manager wouldn't give him the tour of the facility.
But... that's only my opinion, as is this blog.
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Of course, the Left took those comments out of context and immediately began ridiculing the President. Critics insisted he had urged coronavirus sufferers to inject disinfectants into their bodies -- or worse, "ingest" them. But as you can clearly see in the transcript above, Mr. Trump made no mention of Lysol, Clorox or any other type of store-bought cleaning agent.
Also, the President was speaking directly to this team of doctors and asking questions. Most reasonable people would agree that he was just thinking out loud --
Now the sarcasm part - I don't buy. He's not perfect but I don't think he's as horrible as the press and the Left make him out to be. They look for any reason to attack him every single day. Some days, when he can't seem to help himself, he lashes out at them and who could blame him?
Pence, on the other hand, should know better. I don't have an excuse for him.
The loud bit is his lack of understanding of the situation, his inability to empathise and his need to worshipped as the hero saviour.
is there a way we can do something like that by injection inside
The problem isn't only that he said it. He said it on national TV with millions of all sorts of people watching, some of which, unfortunately, believe in him. Poison control centers were overwhelmed with calls.
Disinfectant producing companies had to put out statements contradicting him.
If he said it to the health experts without other wintnesses, no problem. They probably would have educated him and then laughed in private with each other. When you are president, you need to THINK before you talk or make decisions. He is incapable of doing so. He remains a danger to the country and the people in it.
P.S. Clorox is not a cleaner. It is a disinfectant. It functions to kill by chlorination, whether it is bacteria, or us.
If you add it to only water, it will not clean clothes. It will bleach stains. But, it doesn't clean things.
That's why soap (or another surfactant) is needed.
"And is there a way we can do something LIKE THAT by injection inside or almost a cleaning? "
He wasn't addressing the reporters - he was addressing the Doctors. Asking a simple question.
Is there something LIKE THAT that could be used.
If he wants to discuss his insane ideas, he should do it in private, rather than misleading the public.
He should shut up and let the pandemic experts talk, because he sure isn't one.
The only thing he is an expert at, is bamboozling fools out of money.
Pence threatened to punish the reporter who proved his office ignored the rule that he needed a mask to visit the Mayo Clinic
by Tom Porter
. US Vice President Mike Pence threatened to take action against a reporter who revealed that his office was aware he was supposed to wear a face mask on a visit to the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota on Tuesday.
. Pence was criticized for flouting the clinic's rules by not wearing a mask during the visit. His wife later claimed that Pence was not aware of the restrictions.
. But the Voice of America reporter Steve Herman tweeted on Thursday that Pence's office had told reporters covering the visit that they needed to wear masks — proof that his staff did know the rule.
US Vice President Mike Pence's office threatened to punish a reporter who exposed that it knew Pence was supposed to wear a face mask for his visit to the Mayo Clinic on Tuesday.
Pence, who leads the White House's coronavirus task force, has been widely criticized for flouting official guidance and not wearing a mask during his visit to the renowned clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.
Karen Pence, the vice president's wife, has defended her husband, saying in a Fox News interview on Thursday that he was unaware of the clinic's rule requiring visitors to wear a mask or face covering.
But in a tweet on Thursday, the Voice of America reporter Steve Herman said Pence's office knew all along about the face-mask rule.
"All of us who traveled with him were notified by the office of @VP the day before the trip that wearing of masks was required by the @MayoClinic and to prepare accordingly," he wrote.
Herman later told The Washington Post that the White House Correspondents' Association told him he had been barred from traveling on Air Force Two, the vice president's plane.
The Post reported that Pence's office alleged Herman had violated an off-the-record agreement by publicizing a planning document for the visit; for security purposes, such documents are not typically made public.
Let’s be clear. He did not leak sensitive information.
He tweeted publicly available information
Pence's office later told VOA that it had not finalized the ban but was considering imposing punishment if Herman or VOA did not apologize for sharing the information, The Post reported.
Brett Bruen, the White House director of global engagement in the Obama administration, tweeted that the planning information for the hospital visit was in the public domain and not off the record.
Amid the fallout from his Mayo Clinic visit, Pence was pictured wearing a mask during a visit to a hospital in Indiana on Thursday.
So the media didn't understand it was sarcasm - big win
His supporters didn't understand it was sarcasm - big fail
Hie opponents didn't understand it was sarcasm - big win
All the viewers watching an official update to a worried nation about a pandemic didn't understand he was having a light-hearted moment of play to lighten the mood and cheer them all up. BIG fail
Should that be bigly failed, or failed bigly? So many new words in the American language.
Whatever he says goes..........
Ex-convicts and be exonerated as long as they are TRUMPERS......