The President Is Unraveling
In case there was any doubt, the past dozen days have proved we’re at the point in his presidency where Donald Trump has become his own caricature, a figure impossible to parody, a man whose words and actions are indistinguishable from an Alec Baldwin skit on Saturday Night Live.
President Trump’s pièce de résistance came during a late-April coronavirus-task-force briefing, when he floated using “just very powerful light” inside the body as a potential treatment for COVID-19 and then, for good measure, contemplated injecting disinfectant as a way to combat the effects of the virus, “because you see it gets in the lungs and does a tremendous number on them, so it’d be interesting to check that.”
[Anne Applebaum: The rest of the world is laughing at Trump]
But the burlesque show just keeps rolling on.
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