Former president Donald Trump called Melania ‘Mercedes’ as he praised his wife during a speech in Washington DC. The crowd at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) gave the former First Lady a standing ovation as Mr Trump described how “people love her”. “Oh look at that Mercedes, that’s pretty good” he said as the audience stood and applauded. The GOP presidential hopeful was making the keynote speech on 24 February on the same day as voters head to the polls in the South Carolina primary.
            • sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz
              20·
              7 months ago

              I remember that press conference. It was so clear that someone had mentioned that bleach and UV are effective virus killers and he just ran with it like a PSA for awareness of Dunning-Krueger.

                • helenslunch@feddit.nl
                  2·
                  7 months ago

                  The rate of everything goes up and down constantly. I’m reminded of the non-stop “x is down 3% as uncorrelated event takes place” financial articles.

                  In the case of bleach poisoning, the numbers are low, so going from 1 to 2 poisonings can be a “100% increase”.

                  From your link:

                  Critically, association is not causation, and with a frightened public doing whatever it can to protect itself from the virus, the same increases in poisonings might have happened regardless of Trump’s remarks.

              • Zitronensaft@feddit.de
                4·
                7 months ago

                That whole thing was so ridiculous, they were talking about what kills the virus on surfaces. There are a lot of things that can sanitize a table or counter but that doesn’t mean they can kill germs in your body without also killing you. Imagine having a sunburn inside your lungs because someone shoved a light down there, that was Trump’s genius solution to the pandemic in that moment.

              • helenslunch@feddit.nl
                4·
                7 months ago

                He’s so narcissistic that he legitimately thought he randomly came up with a cure for COVID on the spot that no one had thought of.