Fox Anchor Neil Cavuto Tears Apart Trump's 'Unsettling' Sarcasm Claim: He 'Was Not Joking'

[kpete]

“Wow. That is a little unsettling, folks,” Cavuto said on Friday. “Got to clarify this. The president was not joking in his remarks yesterday when he talked about injecting people with disinfectant, nor were we imagining the incredulous looks he got from his medical team when he made the suggestion.”

Cavuto gave a refresher of the comments Trump made during his Thursday coronavirus press briefing, reminding viewers that the president suggested that injecting disinfectant showed “great promise” for a coronavirus treatment. Trump later clarified that because disinfectants kill the coronavirus on surfaces, experts should test it as a way to clean inside the lungs.

“There was nothing in those comments yesterday that hinted of the dismissal he was giving today,” Cavuto remarked. “He is talking about injecting products like Lysol into your body to see if that can combat the disease. That is what he said.”

Cavuto — who spent much of his Friday show on Fox News fact checking the president — then questioned why Trump would pretend to be joking instead of just admitting his mistake, especially considering that the makers of Lysol released a public statement clarifying that the product should not, “under no circumstance,” be injected into the body.


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[ProfessorGAC]

1. I Can Imagine Legal At Reckitt Benckiser

Those lawyers went into warp speed when this came up Thursday evening. The liability alarms were going off at 125 dB!
R-B is the maker of Lysol.
I'm guessing those folks at Clorox had the same reaction.

[mwooldri]

2. Trump never admits mistakes - period.

He either doubles down or states he never said it.

[Merlot]

5. No republicans admit mistakes. It's part of their party platform.

[dalton99a]

6. +1. They make you apologize for 'misunderstanding' them.

[keithbvadu2]

9. Trum just makes up his lies as he needs them.

[Demovictory9]

21. exactly

[Leghorn21]

3. Bret Baier was none too impressed, either

https://mobile.twitter.com/grynbaum/status/1253743298944122880

[IcyPeas]

18. oooh that one's gonna hurt - he praised brett baier the other day

said something about how smart he is and then he was at the presser like the next day and got complimented again by trump

ouch.

[N_E_1 for Tennis]

4. He is sick and needs to be removed...

Any way possible. He is the perfect definition of “A CLEAR and present DANGER.” The longer we wait the more people he’s going to murder.

[Mickju]

10. You are correct.

[Lock him up.]

14. THIS+++

1- The Brave In The Home
2- Goes In
3- Takes him
4- Throws him In A Padded Cell
5- Takes his Phone Away

That's IT.

[NoRoadUntravelled]

7. Given what he says publicly I can't even imagine the comments he's likely making

behind closed doors.

[KS Toronado]

11. From what I've read......

donOLD spends his days yelling and screaming at Cabinet Members, Generals, Doctors, Experts, hell even the cleaning personal. What's really surprising is that nobody will stand up to him, even when he tells people to drink Lysol. Guess that's republicans for you.

[NoRoadUntravelled]

19. I wondered the same thing. Here's something that makes sense. Thnx to The Velveteen Ocelot

"Proximity to an amoral leader reveals something depressing. ... Accomplished people lacking inner strength can’t resist the compromises necessary to survive Mr. Trump and that adds up to something they will never recover from. It takes character ... to avoid the damage, because Mr. Trump eats your soul in small bites.

...His outrageous conduct convinces you that you simply must stay, to preserve and protect the people and institutions and values you hold dear. Along with Republican members of Congress, you tell yourself you are too important for this nation to lose, especially now.

You can’t say this out loud — maybe not even to your family — but in a time of emergency, with the nation led by a deeply unethical person, this will be your contribution, your personal sacrifice for America. You are smarter than Donald Trump, and you are playing a long game for your country, so you can pull it off where lesser leaders have failed and gotten fired by tweet.

Of course, to stay, you must be seen as on his team, so you make further compromises. You use his language, praise his leadership, tout his commitment to values.

And then you are lost. He has eaten your soul."

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/01/opinion/william-barr-testimony.html

Even if you have strong sentiments re: Comey and choices he's made, his words make a great deal of sense here.

[The Magistrate]

20. Comey Hasn't the Right To Criticize Anyone, Sir

He couldn't even strand up to immoral leaders who hadn't the slightest power over him. He made bogus charges and stood by a bogus investigation just because he was worried some shit-heels in the press and Congress would stop agreeing he was the cleanest, most upstanding boy-scout who ever drew breath, and so, to continue the metaphor, to keep himself from the least tarnish on his own overweening image of himself, he tripped up an old lady in the middle of a busy street and went whistling on his merry way.

Anything this wretch wants to type and leave at the scene when he commits seppuku at the Washington Monument I will read, and perhaps even agree with and respect. Short of that, this is one turd who badly needs flushing, and hasn't the slightest claim to public attention, let alone standing to criticize anyone for moral failings or lack of intestinal fortitude.


"Defeat of a dangerous enemy is something to be for."

[NoRoadUntravelled]

22. I hear you and your anger's not misplaced. His actions did not help us and hurt instead.

What he did was wrong. I can't look back without thinking that his actions cost us dearly. At the very least it was an exercise of the poorest judgement that I could imagine anyone at that level of government carrying out and at worst, it may have cost Democrats the election which has led to a different fate for our country and perhaps the world.
Of course, that was before this administration and it's reality $h!T $how even started and it's been getting worse by the day ever since.

I just had a little different take on the Comey piece. It almost seemed like a description of the way he observed growing tRump loyalty happening to others even though they came on board thinking they'd save Democracy from tRump's tiny hands. And I can see how it could happen to Comey, too. At the time I couldn't come up with any other reason why he would do that. I still can't.

So, yeah. I agree with you. Just had a different take on the Comey piece.

[The Magistrate]

23. I Am Not A Forgiving Man, Sir

His sin is spiritual pride, a baseless conviction his rectitude is greater than that of anyone else in law enforcement or government, perhaps even in the whole of humanity, and he continues in it. Confession requires acknowledgement of error, and turning away from the sin one seeks absolution for, and without this forgiveness cannot be granted. He accuses others of what he does himself, without offering himself as a chief example of the failings he decries. That is beneath contempt. The man disgusts me. He is fit food for the highest devils in Hell.

[shelshaw]

8. It's phantasm not sarcasm

[Firestorm49]

12. I picked up some food yesterday, and after talking about how rough business is,

in jest I mentioned that Lysol was probably going to be in short supply. He got a smug look on his face and gave me a look that implied that the whole story was fake. I told him it was right out there for all to see on one of his so called press briefings, and he ignored me.

What a fool he is. I was in business for 36 years. If at all possible, I buy from small local businesses, especially restaurants. I rarely go to a chain food operation. This guy is hurting and still stands by the fool in the Oval Office, but his pizza was the 6th best in the country a few years ago, and I’ll still patronize him.

[malchickiwick]

13. He wasn't making a joke, but it is NO BETTER if he had been.

I mean really, tens of thousands of dead, not one single word of empathy to those left behind, and he's standing up in front of the American people cracking jokes -- THAT'S the excuse??

[Lock him up.]

15. Yep. Same as it ever was with teflon don.

It's not like he ever even begun to make any sense since Obama was elected (even a lil before that).

[Chainfire]

16. If you saw the film clip

You don't need to have a journalist tell you that he was't joking.

[Cha]

25. Yes, but the point is that this.. fox screws "journalist"

said it.

[Delmette2.0]

17. The WH Dipshit does not know what a joke is or sarcasm.

So how could he possibly make a joke or say something sarcastically.

[Cha]

24. Because he's a psychotic assface.. and you should

know that, Cavuto.

But, yeah.. someone who wasn't psycho would say it was mistake and move on.. not trump.

[Silent3]

26. I certainly haven't been following Neil Cavuto, so...

...has he been off the Trump train for a while, is he starting to step off, or is this just a rare diversion from felating Trump?