"if it was 2013 - when did I stop being Vice President?"

You can justify and defend Trump’s stupid comments regarding disinfectant however you want.

Facts, not propaganda- Trump suggested studying the injection of bleach. It was a reckless, stupid idea and health officials had to explicitly tell people to not do it.

Personally, I prefer an intelligent, thoughtful president of any age over a stupid one, only a few years younger.

👍🏻. Odds are that you will get a response with heavily bolded font for that bit of truth-telling. ☺️☺️☺️

I use to say trump was “intellectually lazy and not curious”. After listening to him I’ve changed my thinking to the man is just plain dumb.  

Below is what he said.  Look at what he said.  Seriously?  Note where he later tried to walk back what he said.  The ONLY reason he tried to walk back what he said was I suspect when he was babbling about that crap his staffers were freaking out and convinced him it was what he needed to do.

As to how bleach got mixed up in this.  When people think of disinfectants they automatically think of bleach and Clorox.

From PolitiFact.

“What Trump said about disinfectants

After Bryan’s presentation, Trump floated the idea of using disinfectants to treat COVID-19 patients. He did not say Americans should ingest chemicals to prevent or treat the virus.

Here’s the full context:

"A question that probably some of you are thinking of if you’re totally into that world, which I find to be very interesting. So, supposedly 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’re going to test it. 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. (To Bryan) And I think you said you’re going to test that, too. Sounds interesting, right?"

"And then I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in one minute. And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning, because you see it gets in the lungs and it does a tremendous number on the lungs, so it’d be interesting to check that, so that you’re going to have to use medical doctors with, but it sounds interesting to me. So, we’ll see, but the whole concept of the light, the way it kills it in one minute. That’s pretty powerful."

Later, Trump clarified his comments after a reporter asked Bryan whether disinfectants could actually be injected into COVID-19 patients.

"It wouldn’t be through injections, almost a cleaning and sterilization of an area. Maybe it works, maybe it doesn’t work, but it certainly has a big effect if it’s on a stationary object."

It’s not clear what part of that discussion he was characterizing as a "sarcastic question" to reporters.”

What Trump said about sunlight

Bryan said the DHS study found that sunlight has an adverse effect on the coronavirus. So Trump asked whether there was some way to use sunlight in COVID-19 patients.

But as with his comments on disinfectants, the president stopped short of saying sunlight can cure the coronavirus. Here’s the full context:

Trump: "I hope people enjoy the sun, and if it has an impact, that’s great. I’m just hearing this, not really for the first time. I mean, there’s been a rumor, a very nice rumor, that you go outside in the sun or you have heat, and it does have an effect on other viruses. But now we get it from one of the great laboratories of the world, I have to say. Covers a lot more territory than just this. This is probably an easy thing, relatively speaking, for you.

"I would like you to speak to the medical doctors to see if there’s any way that you can apply light and heat to cure. You know? If you could? And maybe you can, maybe you can’t. Again, I say maybe you can, maybe you can’t. I’m not a doctor. But I’m a person that has a good… You know what. Deborah, have you ever heard of that? The heat and the light relative to certain viruses, yes, but relative to this virus?"

Dr. Deborah Birx: "Not as a treatment. I mean, certainly fever is a good thing. When you have a fever, it helps your body respond. But, I’ve not seen heat or light as a —"

Trump: "I think that’s a great thing to look at. OK?"

Later he said this….

”"I was asking a very sarcastic question to the reporters in the room about disinfectant on the inside," he said during a briefing in the Oval Office on April 24. "But it does kill it, and it would kill it on the hands, and that would make things much better. That was done in the form of a sarcastic question to the reporters."

Politifact recap….

”IF YOUR TIME IS SHORT

During a coronavirus press briefing, President Trump floated the idea of using disinfectants and sunlight to treat COVID-19 patients.

Trump has since walked back those remarks, and several websites and social media posts have taken them out of context.

The briefing transcript shows that Trump did not say people should inject themselves with bleach or alcohol to treat the coronavirus. He was asking officials on the White House coronavirus task force whether they could be used in potential cures.

As to the bolded part.  It didn’t really matter who would inject one with this mysterious “disinfectant” it’s the idea that there was some type of “disinfectant “ to inject regardless of who did it that was dumb.

Well then they didn’t do their job IMO,  which was to determine if he should be charged with a crime.  They, obviously, didn’t think they could get anywhere with that.   The diminished faculties was their non medical opinion and should not have been related to if they could charge him.

I would say the same with Trump.  I certainly think that his faculties are diminished but they have found reason to indict him and charge him with his various crimes.  

But no matter, you could not charge Biden until after he has completed his term, because per Trump’s rules you can’t charge a sitting President. 

This explains why in part Trump supporters are willing to overlook his age and forgive his mistakes, errors, gaffes etc. There are higher expectations of President Biden and he’s perceived differently

www.nytimes.com/2024/02/10/us/politics/biden-trump-aging.html

While Mr. Biden has acknowledged that voters’ concerns about his age are reasonable, Mr. Trump has responded to these episodes with typical hyperbole. In 2015, he released a hastily written doctor’s note declaring that if elected he would be “the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency.” In office, amid news reports of his erratic behavior, Mr. Trump asserted that he was actually a “very stable genius.”

Today, he regularly mocks Mr. Biden for his age, while boasting about acing a test that detects cognitive decline.
Mr. Trump’s responses point to a basic asymmetry of expectations that appears to be working in his favor: His impulsiveness and willingness to go off-script in ways that can be messy only adds to his image as an unrehearsed, unvarnished chaos agent, a key source of his popularity with Republicans.

Verbal flubs by Mr. Biden, by contrast, undermine the image of experience, competence and professionalism that got him elected, and that even his supporters quietly fear may be slipping away.

“Donald Trump is more of an entertainer than a politician in many ways,” Mr. Pocan said. “And I think there’s just a different set of expectations and that’s why he gets away with it.”

Ms. Goman, the leadership coach — who said she supports Mr. Biden — also suggested that Mr. Trump’s experience as a reality television star might have influenced how he performs and is perceived in public.
“Trump is big,” Ms. Goman said. “He simply takes over. He has that kind of full-charge-ahead persona that does correlate with being younger, healthier, more active. Biden doesn’t. He is a different kind of person. And, unfortunately, in this situation, it doesn’t work out well.”

www.threads.net/@briantylercohen/post/C3I2Rw9vaNC/

The thing about Biden’s memory is that he’s presided over the addition of ~15 million jobs & 800k manufacturing jobs, 23 straight months of sub-4% unemployment, surging consumer sentiment, wages outpacing inflation, the American Rescue Plan, Inflation Reduction Act, CHIPs Act, PACT Act, infrastructure law, gun safety law, VAWA, codified marriage equality, canceleded $136 billion in student loan debt for 3.7 million borrowers, bolstered NATO, and presided over electoral wins in ‘20, ‘22 and ‘23.

He’s not diminished, and he was exonerated. Exonerated means no crime was committed.  Ya freak show. 

Seems relevant here: hbr.org/2020/03/how-to-spot-an-incompetent-leader