White House staff tries to make unhinged Trump sound reasonable

John Avlon is a senior political analyst at CNN. The opinions expressed in this commentary are his own. View more opinion on CNN.

You don't need to be a doctor to know that it's dangerous to ingest or inject disinfectants. A random kid on the street could tell you that. John AvlonBut on Thursday President Donald Trump advocated exploring just that. On live television. Four months into a pandemic that he has spectacularly mismanaged, leading to the highest death toll in the world. It was so head-smackingly bad that the company that makes Lysol felt obliged to clean up the President's mess by issuing a statement, essentially dismissing the suggestion as lethal lunacy. But this is who Trump is. This is how he thinks.

Trump unexpectedly leaves task force briefing 01:04"The new acting chief of staff seemed to be saying President Trump was mentally ill — and that this was a good thing," Karl recounts."The corollary to that theory: Don't try to control the man in the Oval Office. What you think is madness is actually genius.

JohnAvlon Opinion CNN there you go lying again

JohnAvlon Opinion Who are you talking about?

JohnAvlon Opinion Here’s what he did NOT say: Tell people to go get disinfectant and inject it. Tell people to drink disinfectant. Say that it was safe to either inject or drink Lysol. Can Trump be a jerk? Sure - but how does this kind of misinformation help us defeat COVID?

JohnAvlon Opinion The light he was talking about is red light therapy... Exosome inhalation therapy is what gets into lungs and heals.. and I think what he was referring to as the 'disinfectant' is MMS. Big Pharma is probably pissed he leaked anything that can be traced back to those treatments.

silsfsu JohnAvlon Opinion Their presence is clearly ineffective. Trump and his cronies are robbing America blind. Quit playing.

JohnAvlon Opinion The staff is only doing what they have to, to keep their jobs. Apparently it doesn't matter if they know he is wrong and a complete asshole

JohnAvlon Opinion Wrong!!!! That's Biden😂😂😂

JohnAvlon Opinion Ah, right, it’s been what, 15 minutes since CNNIsPravda wrote another smear using mind reading to set up a false narrative?

JohnAvlon Opinion FakeNews

JohnAvlon Opinion At this point, Dolt.45 is more of a joke than that 'man from Nantucket'.

JohnAvlon Opinion CNN has taken the art of “Yellow Journalism” to a new level of misinformation. How is this not sedition when you blatantly tell lies intended to damage the President. Only people who rely on CNN are dumb enough to think the President said to ingest poison. Boycott CNN Walkaway

JohnAvlon Opinion Are you fxxxing kidding me? Grow some balls!

JohnAvlon Opinion

JohnAvlon Opinion Have you heard some of the shit Biden has said?

JohnAvlon Opinion Eventually, when this is all over, they’ll use the “I was only following orders” defence.

JohnAvlon Opinion FakeNewsCNN

JohnAvlon Opinion MORON!

JohnAvlon Opinion “Some” more anonymous people who just happen to talk to “media” who have been trying to pull America apart for the past 3+ years....

JohnAvlon Opinion CNN: Every day, some new bullshit

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