Why is it important for you to defend a dumb statement?
Can you not allow the man a mistake now and then?
It wasn’t a dumb statement.
Trump is a big idea leader. He throws out ideas: have we thought of “x”, what about trying “y”. Then eggheads all over the world can consider this and come up with a solution.
I have this happen all of the time in my job. People ask me: can we... And, I think about what I have available, how I can exploit it, and yeah, I think I can give you exactly what you are looking for, something better, or something that is a close approximation to what you want.
This same situation happened regarding the sanitization of the N95 masks. Trump question: why do we throw them away after one use, can’t they be cleaned? Answer: yes, there is a company in Ohio that can’t get through the FDA that has this exact process.
Those who are dumb are the media who have no real technical/science based skills and run around promoting panic and misrepresenting what the President said.
Not so much a mistake but the use of the wrong word such as inject as opposed to spray.