President Trump on Friday played down a furor over his suggestion that people could try injecting disinfectants to fight the novel coronavirus, claiming he was being sarcastic. Trump now says he was talking to a journalist, putting "a sarcastic question to a reporter." Trump often spars with journalists at his daily briefings and he did again on Thursday, calling two of them "fake." The parent group of popular household product Lysol said in a statement that "under no circumstance should our disinfectant products be administered into the human body (through injection, ingestion or any other route)." The White House spokeswoman, Kayleigh McEnany, said the media had taken "President Trump out of context," but did not say he was being sarcastic.

Source: The Standard April 25, 2020 04:18 UTC