Piers Morgan slammed President Trump for comments about injecting disinfectant as a possible cure for the coronavirus.
Morgan, a British media personality, debated CNN conservative commentator Ben Ferguson on Monday, blasting Trump for pondering out loud the “ridiculously dangerous” possibility of injecting disinfectant into people to alleviate those sick with the coronavirus.
“Ben, why can’t you just admit that he should never had said it?” Morgan asked Ferguson.
“What I will say is this, Piers: I think if you have a press conference the way the president has done it and you allow for unlimited questions from the press, that is better than going out there and giving 15 minutes, and walking upstage—” Ferguson said, before Morgan interrupted, saying, “It’s not if you encourage people to drink bleach.”
“It is completely untrue,” Ferguson said, after which Morgan responded, “Absolutely not. I saw it, Ben.”
“He should never have been talking about even the concept of drinking or injecting or ingesting bleach,” Morgan said.
During Thursday’s White House coronavirus task force briefing, Trump talked about potential treatments for the virus after Bill Bryan, head of the science and technology directorate at the Department of Homeland Security, gave a report that shows the virus dying more quickly in summertime environments.
“Supposing we hit the body with a tremendous … whether it’s ultraviolet or just very powerful light. And I think you said that hasn’t been checked, but you are going to test it,” Trump said to Bryan at the briefing.
“And then, I said, supposing you brought the light inside the body, which you can do either through the skin or in some other way. And I think you said you are going to test it.”
Bryan responded, “We’ll get the right folks who could.”
“And is there a way we can do something like that by injection inside or almost a cleaning?” Trump later said.
When being addressed about his line of questioning on Friday by reporters, the president called his remarks “sarcastic.”
Earlier this month, Morgan told CNN that he is horrified by how his “friend,” Trump, is handling the coronavirus crisis.
