THE PRESIDENT: Well, I’ve worked with doctors. And if you look at the one survey, the only bad survey, they were giving it to people that were in very bad shape. They were very old, almost dead. It was a “Trump enemy” statement.
Now, if you look at some of the reports that came out from Italy, that came out from France, that came out from other — a lot of our frontline workers take it because it possibly, and I think it does, but you know, people are going to have to make up their own mind. Plus, it doesn’t hurt people. It’s been out on the market for 60 or 65 years for malaria, lupus, and other things. I think it gives you an additional level of safety.
But you can ask — many doctors are in favor of it. Many frontline workers won’t go there unless they have the hydroxy. And so, again, this is an individual decision to make. But it’s had a great reputation, and if it was somebody else other than me, people would say, “Gee, isn’t that smart?”
But we are working on a lot of other things. We have — I’ll tell you what: The great medical companies that we have, if you look at what they’re doing therapeutically, cure-wise, and the vaccine itself — and the vaccine, I think, is less important than some of the things they’re working on. They’re working on a cure. And we have more than one doing it and very advanced. They’re working on therapeutics, and they’re working on vaccines.
There’s been tremendous — there’s been tremendous prog- — really, tremendous progress.
“Why is it okay for you to promote the use of this drug”
He wasn’t promoting or prescribing it. Even the President has a right to his opinion. I guess the questioner isn’t aware of that.