“It Was Just a Conversation!”

Imagine being a doctor who’s more frustrated that the President is getting bad press than that calls to poison control hotlines doubled in NYC after his remarks. #CNNSOTU https://t.co/vSMnZAUO6s

— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) April 26, 2020

“When he turned it me, I made it clear and he understood that it was not as a treatment. I think that kind of dialogue will happen,” Birx said on @CNNSotu

— Manu Raju (@mkraju) April 26, 2020

MD Gov Hogan (R): "When misinformation comes out or you just say something that pops in your head, it does send a wrong message. We had hundreds of calls come in to our emergency hotline asking if it‘s right to ingest Clorox or alcohol cleaning products." pic.twitter.com/q95gfPmdRs

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 26, 2020

The POTUS can’t have “just a conversation.” Not in public, anyway. Aside from the fact Trump spends his day watching TV and tweeting, not studying government operations.

The reason it made news and is still news is because Trump decided to have his "dialogue" or "musing," as Birx has put it, on live television at a briefing that the president will be the first to note draws millions of Americans, many of them tuning in for facts, info, updates. https://t.co/o2fyiueAq5

— Philip Rucker (@PhilipRucker) April 26, 2020