This is just embarrassing

| 5:52 pm EDT April 24, 2020
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Yesterday Donald Trump used a live television broadcast to tell Americans they should consider ingesting “disinfectants” – products like bleach and Lysol – in order to fend off the coronavirus. This wasn’t just bad advice, it was fatally bad advice. Lysol had to release a statement today confirming that ingesting the product will kill you.

Yet after Donald Trump told everyone to drink bleach and Lysol yesterday, all three major cable news networks are airing his press briefing live today. CNN doesn’t usually air the opening segment of the briefings, but even it has caved today.

We suppose that after Trump’s “disinfectant” meltdown yesterday and the controversy it caused, today’s briefing is a ratings goldmine. Americans are bored and locked at home, and they’re curious what Trump will do to further humiliate himself today. But some gullible segment of people watching this trash will mistake it for legitimate medical advice, because it’s coming from the so-called President of the United States.

Are CNN and MSNBC under the impression that getting their own audiences killed is going to be good for ratings? Now more than ever, this garbage shouldn’t be on the air. In fact there’s an argument to be made that it’s literally a crime to knowingly broadcast this ongoing fatally dangerous medical disinformation.

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