The man who suggested people drink bleach during the COVID pandemic is back with another hit.
Donald Trump reportedly thinks soda is good for him, because it kills grass — and therefore it must also kill cancer cells.
The wild revelation comes via Dr. Mehmet Oz, Trump’s administrator for Medicare and Medicaid, who shared the anecdote on Donald Trump Jr.’s podcast Tuesday.
“Your dad argues that diet soda is good for him because it kills grass if you pour it on grass, so therefore it must kill cancer cells inside the body,” Oz told Trump Jr. in disbelief, to which Trump Jr. just laughed and shrugged knowingly.
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s@piefed.world · 152 pts · 124d
It’s got what plants crave
sickday@fedia.io · 35 pts · 123d
brought to you by Carl's Jr
smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 123d
Cancer?
Ariselas@piefed.ca · 20 pts · 123d
It's Got Electrolytes!
smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 123d
That was my second guess.
Does soda cure electrolytes too?
a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 123d
No, cancer, unfortunately.
medicsofanarchy@lemmy.world · 124 pts · 123d
Trump has cancer and is killing it with soda? Well, at least he's treating it correctly. Donald, add bleach to your sodas for extra killing power. Lots of bleach.
rottenmummy@lemmy.ml · 44 pts · 123d
I hear bullets can solve the cancer problem quite quickly
Ariselas@piefed.ca · 91 pts · 123d
notwhoyouthink@lemmy.zip · 11 pts · 123d
Also only drink soda, sir. Forget water, soda is the thirst mutilator!
abfarid@startrek.website · 74 pts · 123d
This is easy to disprove, if carbonated drinks could kill cancer Trump would've died already.
Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 123d
Because he is a cancer?
Seems sound.
chetradley@lemmy.world · 69 pts · 123d
Hahahaha. Just imagine getting that email.
jj4211@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 123d
That's just proof that he's onto something, Big Cancer is afraid to admit that a cheap cancer cure already exists, obviously.
ltxrtquq@lemmy.ml · 9 pts · 123d
Have you ever seen a cancer patient chugging gallons of soda? Something to think about.
artyom@piefed.social · 49 pts · 124d
This honestly blew my mind, and I don't think he's ever topped this level of stupid. To this day it may be the dumbest thing he ever said. I'm just in awe of this reality.
Drusas@fedia.io · 23 pts · 123d
What about the time he stared directly into the sun?
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 123d
He glanced at it. If he had stared at it, he would have been blinded.
thespcicifcocean@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 123d
The past tense of blind is blound
LincolnsDogFido@lemmy.zip · 13 pts · 123d
This is really fucking dumb. I love it lol
Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 123d
Blounded
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 123d
So "was blound?" I like it, I'm going to use it, not that it's going to come up often. Probably going to have to engineer a conversation, steer it in the right direction. Something like "Morning , Larry, how's your eyesight today?" Then roll right into saying something like "I got so drunk I was blound all night." Smooth.
sturmblast@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 123d
To be fair thats not the quote "And then I see the disinfectant where it knocks it out in a minute. One minute. And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning? So it'd be interesting to check that."
Still dumb
FudgyMcTubbs@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 123d
Correct. He did not suggest drinking bleach -- he suggested injecting that shit.
artyom@piefed.social · 3 pts · 123d
Yeah I know, I didn't bother to correct it because it's still equally stupid.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · -24 pts · 123d
Trump never told people to inject or drink bleach. That was started on reddit.
The UV light idea was given to Trump by virologists at Stanford, who did more stupid things in 2020 than anywhere in the world. The actual concept was to pass blood through UV light and reinfuse back to the patient.
Hawke@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 123d
So he didn’t specify bleach as the disinfectant of choice. He definitely suggested that injecting disinfectant would be a possible solution. I agree, and he should go first.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 123d
Yeah, see? He never said bleach! He might have meant Lysol, or Hydrogen Peroxide, or Vinegar, or Formula 409, or something, you don't know!
artyom@piefed.social · 2 pts · 123d
All of which are totally a-ok to inject and is a medically valid suggestion! /s
LOL the absolute narcissism to think you can solve this problem on a whim with absolutely no medical knowledge, or really any knowledge of any kind... Its peak Trump.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · -15 pts · 123d
Again, the concept of using an injected antiviral was given to him by Stanford, and that's how he understood it as a typical American who has no level of STEM. Stanford was on a mission to remove lockdowns on behalf of their donors.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-inject-bleach-covid-19/
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-bleach-covid-19/
I get the hate for Trump, but you guys are no better then MAGA playing mailman.
No, JD Vance did not actually fuck a couch.
jj4211@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 123d
Trump didn't make the leap to directly say to do that, but he did clearly think that strong lights and disinfectant in the body 'should be looked into'. He was saved from directly making a terrible recommendation by having some amount of deference for the medical organizations, but did try to show 'thought leadership' in a very dumb direction.
It was not some sort of Stanford spinning up wild concepts, it was Trump taking very obvious things about how we handle these things outside the body and thinking that we would be the first to ask 'but what about inside the body?'. Yes, he phrased it as a question to be looked into, but he clearly thought there could be something to it.
About the only credit you can give to first term Trump in this scenario is that he at least ultimately left health issues up to the health departments, even as he groused the whole time.
Hawke@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 123d
I mean, I quoted where he literally said that.
Yes, one can give him the benefit of the doubt as he is a fucking idiot. But fuck that, he’s in a position where the words he says are taken at face value and will and have killed people.
Even if his heart were in the right place and he were merely stupid, there is no reason to defend this shit.
artyom@piefed.social · 4 pts · 123d
I don't understand how you think that's a defense of any kind.
RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 123d
So your Snopes link splits female arm hairs, admits it with a quote, then says the assertion is wrong, after demonstrating it's right. Laughing out loud.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 10 pts · 123d
Yeah I'm gonna go ahead and doubt this
RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 123d
Yes he did. I watched it happen with my eyes and ears.
meme_historian@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 37 pts · 123d
So just inches away from Idiocracy plot, yes?
jj4211@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 123d
Nah, President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Camacho at least wanted the smartest man in the world trying to solve problems for him. This administration wouldn't let a smart man near anything.
monketman82@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 123d
Nearly.. https://idiocracy.wtf/
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 123d
Oh, we're way beyond that. We left that plot behind the horizon as we zoomed away and left it in the dust.
mister_flibble@sh.itjust.works · 22 pts · 123d
If anything the comparison is actually kind of insulting to Camacho at this point. He was an idiot and a blowhard but he actually appointed the most competent people he could find and cared about the average person's well being.
meme_historian@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 123d
You're right. He was stupid but not a malicious ass clown
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 123d
Absolutely, a polar opposite to the US administration (except for them also being idiots of course).
18107@aussie.zone · 34 pts · 123d
Killing cancer is really easy. The hard part is keeping the patient alive while doing it.
kamen@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 123d
Yeah, small detail.
Nikelui@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 123d
It's scientifically proven that guns can kill cancer, in a Petri dish.
kamen@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 123d
That also kills the Petri dish.
end_stage_ligma@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 122d
Skill issue, really
Nacktmull@lemmy.world · 30 pts · 123d
"The Democrats don't matter... The real opposition is the media. And the way to deal with them is to flood the zone with shit"
Steve Bannon 2018
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 123d
They ended up buying it all in the end.
RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world · 30 pts · 123d
Draino kills grass, too. Way more effectively than diet soda.
BouteilleBrune@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 123d
Draino isn't for cancer though, it's for his cholesterol clogged arteries
RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 123d
Draino is pretty effective for pretty much anything in its path, except metal. It doesn't discriminate.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 123d
Really? What's the racist drain clog buster? I won't bust clogs without racism.
BouteilleBrune@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 121d
I don't remember its name but it only works in pvc pipe, it hates abs. I'm guessing your whole system is already pvc?
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 121d
probably. i didn't do it, but the shit up in the attic is definitely not copper.
RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 121d
I've been told not to use draino with PVC. There's one designed for it?
WesternInfidels@feddit.online · 27 pts · 123d
I know that there's a lot of crazy to unpack, here, but can we talk about the grass for a second? Just how much soda did he pour on his lawn? To make him think of soda as some kind of grass killer?
jaybone@lemmy.zip · 20 pts · 123d
Maybe he should start drinking Roundup.
Taleya@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 123d
He spilled it on his rommate's pouch in college and, like, totally killed the grass, man.
BassTurd@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 123d
Brawno. It's got what plants crave.
Dasus@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 123d
mattyroses@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 123d
Such a better President
Dasus@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 123d
More eloquent, trustworthy, handsome. Not a pedophile or a convicted criminal. What's not to like?
mattyroses@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 123d
Hires the smartest,oat qualified people he can find
greenfish@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 123d
But why is he talking about cancer. Does he have cancer??
auntieclokwise@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 123d
We can only hope.
FatVegan@leminal.space · 8 pts · 123d
Poor cancer
end_stage_ligma@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 122d
He is cancer
lightsblinken@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 123d
its got what plants crave!!
InFerNo@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 123d
Craven't
pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 15 pts · 123d
He should try poison
partofthevoice@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 123d
He did suggest the possibility of injecting bleach.
nightofmichelinstars@sopuli.xyz · 15 pts · 123d
Wait, does this mean Trump has cancer? Was Oz making news here?
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 123d
Oz was making news in the sense of 'announcing' that Trump thinks Coke kills cancer.
So thats about the same level as uh... 'I take BRAINFORCE because it makes me smart' or 'I use colloidal silver because it keeps you healthy'.
Its not directly stating that Trump has any medical condition, its basically just saying he's an overconfident dumbass who believes in medical quackery.
nightofmichelinstars@sopuli.xyz · 7 pts · 123d
But he wouldn't even be thinking about cancer or its potential treatments unless it was directly relevant to him, right? Because he only thinks about himself? Optimistic speculation?
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 123d
I mean, developing cancer of some kind is just broadly more likely as you age.
If you're ~60+, the chances of cancer being what kills you go up significantly
So, the general idea of wanting to not have cancer, and trying to do things that will make it more likely you will not develop cancer, is not particularly odd or specific in itself.
Of course... soda consumption as a means of doing this is dubious, it would make much more sense to basically develop a healthy diet, and stick to that, as a means of staving off cancer.
Trump is notoriously a bit of a germaphobe, and also famously doesn't drink. Or at least he says he doesn't drink.
He's just generally concerned about his health... but he's a fucking idiot, he so does that by way of essentially superstitions.
EDIT:
Oh!
You mean... he thinks it 'kills' cancer in the sense of 'he already has cancer, so it must be elimated from within him'.
Yeah ok so this is hard to explain factually, but basically, if you know older Boomers or Silent Gen, they very often just use 'kills' in that context to functionally mean 'keep you clean inside' or 'prevent'.
Its... kind of a muddled and not totally literal use of the word.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 123d
I think the point was that this dude is incapable of thinking about anything beyond himself, so if he's talking about trying to cure cancer, then there's a distinct possibility that he's got it.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 123d
No, it's actually way stupider than that. Because even if "BRAINFORCE" doesn't actually make you smart, at least that's what they tell you it does.
Nobody has ever thought this about soda. It's just so unbelievably fucking stupid.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 123d
I've known older folks, dumb older folks, who have thought this, and things like this.
jj4211@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 123d
"Cigarettes can't hurt you, anything that goes in the lungs you can just blow it back out again"
ryper@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 123d
It was Fanta, actually. "Fresh squeezed," apparently.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 123d
Freshy Squeezed Fanta is an extremely cursed phrase/concept, goddamn you lol.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 123d
Checks out, the Nazis loved their Fanta
nightofmichelinstars@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 123d
Rakonat@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 123d
Knowing that 47% of US voters will vote for this guy no matter what he says, does or fails to do is utterly painful. This man shouldn't be allowed to run a lemonade stand, much less an elected office or branch of government.
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 123d
In the very first episode of The Apprentice, they had to run a lemonade stand. One idiot tried to get someone to pay a million dollars for a cup of lemonade
Akasazh@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 123d
I don't really need more 'news' stating that Trump is retarded.
boolean_sledgehammer@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 122d
Just let him keep drinking it by the gallon and the problem will take care of itself.
T00l_shed@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 122d
But its so fucking slow
PhoenixDog@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 122d
If he wasn't such an International parasite, I'd say "good... Let it be slow".
T00l_shed@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 122d
Yes, it would be fantastic to have him suffer long term with cancer. One of few people who actually deserve to have it
SkybreakerEngineer@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 123d
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 10 pts · 123d
Trump Jr actually laughed and said 'Well if you think about, there might be something to it...', something like that.
I've seen the video clip.
Then Dr. Oz is very obviously internally seething, but wearing a happy mask on top of it.
diabetic_porcupine@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 123d
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 123d
Uh, source please. For peer review.
helvetpuli@sopuli.xyz · 9 pts · 123d
Idiocracy (2006)
Techranger@infosec.pub · 8 pts · 123d
Ow, My Balls! (2506)
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 122d
it won a major award!
helvetpuli@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 123d
Spacehooks@reddthat.com · 8 pts · 123d
And butter lubricates the blood. Make sure you eat 6 sticks a day Agent orange!
blattrules@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 123d
Surely no one who has consumed copious amounts of diet soda has ever had cancer before.
Sisyphe@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 123d
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 123d
I remember back in the 60s and 70s when they were doing all that testing, and people would blow off the results, saying do you know how many (cigarettes, diet sodas, snack foods, etc.) those mice had to (smoke, drink, eat) to get cancer?
Yeah, about the same amount Trump has dranken every day for years.
lightnsfw@reddthat.com · 7 pts · 123d
HAHAHA, the president of the united states is a moron! LOL, this is a very funny thing and not a terrifying problem we should address immediately!
Mulligrubs@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 123d
Please note that Trump insists on drinking from the small Diet Coke bottle.
A regular 16-ounce bottle makes his hands look so tiny
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 123d
JohnFx@reddthat.com · 6 pts · 122d
Maybe he should try a double shot of RoundUp. It REALLY is good at killing grass!
humminglady@feddit.online · 6 pts · 123d
I feel like it would kill all your cells if it could do that.
Mangoholic@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 122d
Idiocracy is real. They would absolutely water the crops with soda.
BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 122d
IT'S WHAT PLANTS CRAVE!
M0oP0o@mander.xyz · 4 pts · 122d
Oh and your going to tell me that we should use water? like the stuff in the toilet?
elbiter@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 123d
I stopped at "Trump apparently thinks" and said "naaaaaah"
FrChazzz@lemmus.org · 5 pts · 123d
My completely unscientific theory is that all the preservatives in his food are, well, preserving him. Which is why he's still up and moving around.
kadotux@sopuli.xyz · 5 pts · 123d
Didn't the clown talk about injecting bleach, not drink it?
nelly_man@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 122d
Yeah, this is a clip of what he said.
https://www.c-span.org/clip/white-house-event/user-clip-trump-suggests-injecting-bleach-to-kill-covid-virus/5162133
switcheroo@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 123d
Keep sucking down those over sugared caffeine bombs, you twit. More the better actually.
anon_8675309@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 123d
Silly people. Trump is incapable of thought.
ProfThadBach@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 122d
We are such a stupid country
PhoenixDog@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 122d
As someone not from your stupid country, I'd love to remind you that the rest of the world both mocks you and fucking hates you.
ProfThadBach@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 122d
No need to remind me. There are a lot of people who mock and hate me.
BygoneNeutrino@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 123d
Since a diet high in sugar does kill human cells and cancer cells are human cells, soda does in fact kill cancer.
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 123d
Start drinking Roundup (TM) NOW!!
Treczoks@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 123d
Has he tried injecting bleach yet?
HulkSmashBurgers@reddthat.com · 4 pts · 123d
Yes it is good for him and I think he should drink gallons of it. More of a good thing is even better!
stupidcasey@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 122d
Probably does, it kills everything else, if you put a single cancer cell in it, it will die, of course you would have to kill the rest of the body first since cancer reproduces faster than the rest of the cells.
KonalaKoala@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 123d
Maybe he meant to say, “Your dad argues that diet soda is good for him because it kills grass if you pour it on grass, so therefore it must kill brain cells inside the head, and that is why he is declaring war against every third-world country while the Democrats want to declare him unfit to serve as POTUS.”
Gammelfisch@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 122d
He should mix several types of disinfectants with bleach as the number one ingredient.
joan@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 122d
Red cross doctor speaking, by the way
kent_eh@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 122d
Did Oz say that to suggest that it is insane, or to try and frame it as somehow the totally normal actions of a stable genius?
Grabthar@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 123d
Wait, you're telling me diet soda is good for something?
unitedwithme@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 123d
Rivermoonwolf@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 122d
Does he think RoundUp is healthy too?
PhoenixDog@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 122d
I wouldn't put it past him.
Rivermoonwolf@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 122d
We're not that lucky.