President Donald Trump‘s interview quickly unraveled on Tuesday as he had a hard time to safeguard a video he ‘d retweeted that is full of incorrect claims about the coronavirus and grumbled about his low approval ranking.
Press reporters asked Trump repeated concerns about his continued support for hydroxychloroquine as a COVID-19 treatment a day after he retweeted several conspiracy theories about the drug. Numerous medical trials have discovered hydroxychloroquine is not an effective coronavirus treatment, in spite of the president’s recommendations to the contrary.
” Lots of physicians believe it is incredibly successful,” Trump declared when inquired about the retweets, adding, “I happen to think in it. I would take it. As you understand, I took it for a 14- day duration, and I’m here. … It’s safe. It doesn’t cause problems.”
Trump was also forced to address for a video he retweeted on Monday that revealed a group of self-proclaimed medical specialists declaring that social distancing and masks were not necessary to suppress the spread of COVID-19 and declaring that officials were reducing the use of hydroxychloroquine for political reasons. The occasion was hosted and moneyed by the right-wing nonprofit Tea ceremony Patriots, which has actually been arranging jobs to promote that narrative.
A reporter explained to Trump– who had actually simply recently motivated Americans to use protective masks (in line with Dr. Anthony Fauci and other real specialists in contagious illness)– that a person of the primary doctors featured in the video is a full-blown conspiracy theorist: “She’s likewise made videos saying that doctors