Trump hopes Covid-19 will disappear, Pelosi says 'drinking bleach and injecting Lysol' won't make that happen
President Donald Trump’s administration has struggled to deal with the coronavirus pandemic that has hit the US hard, though, on the face, the commander-in-chief has always projected that he is doing the job with great efficiency. On Wednesday, July 1, Trump said in an interview with Fox Business Network that the coronavirus would “disappear” and America will be “very good” with the pandemic. But his critics did not find Trump’s take convincing. The US has seen almost 2.7 million people getting affected by the pandemic and there is no dying down in the rate of spreading. More than 128,000 people have died so far.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi hit back at Trump on Wednesday afternoon, tweeting with a video clip of his interview: “Mr. President, drinking bleach and injecting Lysol won’t make it disappear.” The 80-year-old Congresswoman’s dig at the president made an indirect reference to the latter’s controversial remark made in April where he said that Americans could inject disinfectant as a cure for Covid-19, leaving the experts visibly shocked. “I see the disinfectant that 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?” he said. Facing flak, Trump later said that he was only joking but that didn’t stop his critics from ridiculing him.
In May, Pelosi had another chance to mock the president after the latter was learned to take hydroxychloroquine regularly to keep the coronavirus away. The veteran Democrat said on the occasion that it was not wise for Trump, who she called “morbidly obsese”, to take the drug not scientifically confirmed to be the Covid-19 drug. Trump later hit back at Pelosi calling her a "sick woman" with a lot of "mental problems". Meanwhile, at a press briefing on Wednesday, White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany was asked whether hoping the coronavirus will disappear is Trump’s strategy on the crisis at the moment. McEnany responded saying Trump is confident that the coronavirus will disappear.
“He’s confident that he’s put together a revolutionary, first-class team that is going to break through bureaucracy and get us a vaccine. He’s confident that that will lead us to a place where we won’t have COVID on our hands,” she said. In his interview, however, the president spoke about having a vaccine very soon after expressing hope that the virus will disappear.
Everything is a hoax for President Trump, says Pelosi
Pelosi launched a scathing attack on Trump while speaking with MSNBC on Wednesday on the issues of coronavirus as well as the shocking revelations that Russia offered to pay Taliban extremists to kill American troops deployed in Afghanistan. Taking a dig at the president who called the report a “hoax”, the Speaker said the former always tries to pass things as hoax. She said Trump also called Covid-19 a hoax by suggesting that it will disappear. “There is no reality in the judgment of this president,” she said, adding that the Republicans are made to swallow his words and that the president is humiliating his party while taking the country in the wrong direction.