It's also remarkably stupid. Like astoundingly dumb.
To quote Craig Manzin: 'One of the hallmarks of the dangerously stupid is the consistent belief they’ve found great solutions that experts somehow missed.'
The Maryland Emergency Management Agency received over 100 calls about injecting disinfectant as a potential cure. [4]
You know, it's possible to explore highly experimental therapies for a novel disease without naming them explicitly at the presidential press briefing during a pandemic. Doing so is INCREDIBLY irresponsible, as evidenced above.
[1] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/coronavirus-news-arizona-man-di...
[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/25/us/coronavirus-trump-chlo...
[3] https://apnews.com/a5077c7227b8eb8b0dc23423c0bbe2b2
[4] https://abcnews.go.com/Health/coronavirus-updates-china-repo...
Bill Bryan stands up and reports that they've tested a bunch of disinfectant processes in vitro and on surfaces, including bleach. Then Trump immediately begins riffing on that, before the guy sits down, and says, verbatim:
> [...] And then I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in one minute. And is there a way we can do something like that by injection inside or almost a cleaning because you see it gets in the lungs and it does a tremendous number on the lungs, so it’d be interesting to check that so that you’re going to have to use medical doctors with, but it sounds interesting to me.
Now, no one is going to call that a clear statement. But in context it seems really obvious to me that he's talking about injecting exactly the list of disinfectants that he's referring to.
That's a pretty far cry from telling people to inject bleach, which is the narrative some outlets are trying to spin right now.