The transcript clearly shows he was taking about uv therapy

The transcript doesn’t help.

Trump should be more careful in his “briefings” and not use them as chit chat sessions. They should be used for information and policy. That would avoid this kind of silliness.

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mistake was using the word disinfectant

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An injection of UV?

His mistake was spitballing in that setting.

It’s fine to own it wasn’t great but not a huge deal and move on hoping he dials it in some.

Trump speaks in generalities on purpose especially on topics he is unknowledgeable about. This topic is too technical to discuss in generalities. He should have never used the term "inject" when talking about UV radiation.

He should have just introduced the topic and allowed one of the doctors to elaborate on the use of UV.

With that said all indoor businesses like restaurants should install UV lamps in conjunction with their normal lighting. This can be done for less than a couple of hundred dollars. The UV lamps can offer the same UV killing abilities that normal sunlight provides outside.

Is it 100%? No. But it is a method of scrubbing indoor air constantly.

Funny seeing people get so bent out of shape about this, especially when you see the whole statement. I hate this word, but this is a nothingburger.

You can twist it all you want but Trump came out sounding like an idiot with this one, nothing more can be said about it. I’m a big trump guy but he isn’t perfect, he fricked this one up.

There was no mistake by using the word disinfectant. He is right on all accounts and expressed what needed to be said perfectly, the MSM is just trying to make up stuff that didn't actually happen as usual.

How come this was left out of the story?

fricking liars, and there is another link in the story

At the very same press briefing where Trump made those comments, before Trump even got up, Under Secretary for Science at Technology at the Department of Homeland Security, Bill Bryan, noted various observations about how the virus reacts to certain things including UV light and various chemicals.

Here are Bryan’s comments provided by the transcript from Rev.com:

Yesterday, I shared the emerging results of our work that we’re doing now with the coronavirus task force and today I would like to share a certain trends that we believe are important. If I may have the first slide please. And while that’s coming up, our most striking observation to date is the powerful effect that solar light appears to have on killing the virus, both surfaces and in the air. We’ve seen a similar effect with both temperature and humidity as well, where increasing the temperature and humidity or both is generally less favorable to the virus.

Bryan later added that various chemicals also make the virus unstable and even kill it:

For example, increasing the temperature and humidity of potentially contaminated indoor spaces appears to reduce the stability of the virus, and extra care may be warranted for dry environments that do not have exposure to solar light. We’re also testing disinfectants readily available. We’ve tested bleach, we’ve tested isopropyl alcohol on the virus specifically in saliva or in respiratory fluids and I can tell you that bleach will kill the virus in five minutes. Isopropyl alcohol will kill the virus in 30 seconds and that’s with no manipulation, no rubbing. Just bring it on and leaving it go. You rub it and it goes away even faster. We’re also looking at other disinfectants, specifically looking at the COVID-19 virus in saliva. This is not the end of our work.

This is what prompted Trump to say what he said.

Trump should have handed these press conferences over to Pence a while ago.