Twitter Memorializes One Year Anniversary of Trump’s Infamous Disinfectant Comments: ‘Happy Bleach Injection Day, For Those Who Celebrate’
One year ago today, Donald Trump stood at the podium of the White House briefing room and suggested injecting disinfectants and using “tremendous” amounts of UV light to combat the coronavirus.
“So, supposing we hit the body with tremendous, I don’t know if it’s ultraviolet or very powerful light, and I think you said that has been checked but your’e going to test it,” Trump said. “Then I said what it if you brought the light inside of the body which you could do either through the skin or some other way and I think you said you were going to test that, too, sounds interesting.”
Trump repeatedly turned to his former coronavirus response coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx for validation, while she awkwardly avoided eye contact.
The moment became instantly infamous, pundits mocking him endlessly on Twitter, while it also launched comedian Sarah Cooper into stardom, as the incident inspired her viral TikTok “How to medical.”
How to medical pic.twitter.com/0EDqJcy38p
— Sarah Cooper (@sarahcpr) April 24, 2020
A year later, and talking heads are still mocking Trump for the dangerous suggestion, memorializing a day that comedian Michael Rapaport called “Bleach Remembrance Day” and what HuffPost White House correspondent S.V. Dáte has dubbed “Bleach Injection Day.”
One year ago today, Trump encouraged health officials to study the injection of bleach into the human body as a way to fight COVID.
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) April 23, 2021
A year ago: ingesting bleach is suggested as a COVID cure
Now: new president sets an ambitious goal of 200 million vaccinations – and hits the goal
Leadership matters https://t.co/C2VGguEjWO
— Chris Lu (@ChrisLu44) April 23, 2021
Happy Bleach Injection Day, for those who celebrate.
— S.V. Dáte (@svdate) April 23, 2021
Trump’s bleach press conference happened one year ago today. We’ve never been the same.
My look back with @meridithmcgraw at a surreal, defining moment, unique in the annals of presidential news briefings https://t.co/WcdEldZ3rQ
— Sam Stein (@samstein) April 23, 2021
Happy Bleach Remembrance Daypic.twitter.com/XTyFy3bXCS
— MichaelRapaport (@MichaelRapaport) April 23, 2021
One year ago today https://t.co/r2Ya4ZHlm1
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) April 23, 2021
A year to the day of the Drink Bleach Fiasco and most media outlets still will not acknowledge Trump’s mental impairment. pic.twitter.com/9dItjOWAn0
— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) April 23, 2021
One year ago today President Trump suggested ingesting bleach as a way to treat COVID-19
One day ago President Biden announced we have past 200,000,000 vaccine doses administered.
Elections matter. https://t.co/2tja28YC03
— Tim Fullerton (@TimFullerton) April 23, 2021
A year ago today Trump said inject yourself with bleach.
— mike freeman (@mikefreemanNFL) April 23, 2021
#TBT to one year ago today and the president of the USA suggesting people consume bleach to treat COVID-19. https://t.co/T5V1DtmyFt
— Ellie Hall (@ellievhall) April 23, 2021
What a difference a year and an election have made in America.
Under Joe Biden’s leadership more than 200 million people have been vaccinated.
A year ago today the former guy suggested shoving a light up your ass and drinking bleach.
— Rick Smith (@RickSmithShow) April 23, 2021
The “experts” scoffed at this a year ago, but Trump was right — injecting yourself with bleach just plain works. https://t.co/31hkPtSejh
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) April 23, 2021
A year ago, we were told it would “disappear” by summer and to inject bleach https://t.co/WsbNSJXDTt
— TrivWorks (@TrivWorks) April 23, 2021
Yr ago today Trump was telling people to inject themselves w/ bleach…. https://t.co/CVTRWRex53
— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) April 23, 2021
Are we making progress?
Today (and it’s hard to believe in more ways than one) is the one year anniversary of bleach day https://t.co/yy4T6aR2rn— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) April 23, 2021
In case you forget how much elections have consequences:
“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.” https://t.co/PLXjjbBKIV— Amy Siskind ?️? (@Amy_Siskind) April 23, 2021
Watch the moment above, via Fox News
