Is he mad?

He is outrageous.
I kind of see where he is coming from that if washing hands with soap kills the virus why can't we find an equivalent vaccine. But to say those things out loud is crazy.

Actually Ellianne I think they are the musings of a small child. Sadly, they get media coverage.

As a small child I put washing up liquid in a fish pond that I’d overheard needed “cleaning out”.
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It’s four-year-old logic...

Asking the doctors questions like that on TV is beyond stupid. He really has sat there with his tiny mind, come up with this idea as a cure and decided to ask these questions on film so that he can say he discovered the cure later.

Sadly his reasoning is delusional. We have child safety caps for a good reason.

Narcissistic personality disorder and whatever degenerative mental issue he has are a bad combination.

He has followers who will try this plan. There are already parents trying to cure their child's autism with bleach.

He is very ill or deranged but most certainly dangerous

Here’s an idea. Why not trial it on Republican voters?

I wonder if it has occurred to anyone surrounding him to "accidentally" disconnect the microphone? At the same time they could hide the device he uses for Twitter.

When he was first elected I was apprehensive but thought a lot of the bad publicity he received was the US media being mostly Democrat supporters, however, now I believe he is becoming dangerous and he scares me.

He's also suggested shining ultra violet light into the body - I suppose he means using one of those miniature cameras that surgeons use.

Nutty as a fruitcake, as my mum used to say. I is a disservice to fruitcakes though.

As Marydoll said, there is already a thread on this

www.gransnet.com/forums/coronavirus/1277594-There-is-alas-no-cure-for-stupidity

jaylucy that is a classic !

I would think that egomaniac is the best description.

He’s completely and utterly deranged, but sadly the Americans seem to like him.

He is utterly mad but not in an eccentric, harmless, amusing way. We can be glad of two things - firstly, we’ll only have to put up with him for a few more years at most, and secondly, he’s not in charge of a military dictatorship where thousands would have doubtless lost their lives at his hands.

Douche & Birth Control ..

Yes

Agree with MawB, very simple answer, yes.

But would add that having someone with that sort of mentality in charge of such a power as the U.S is very, very scary.

Think the answer is, yes.

A couple of years ago I said that Trump had 'Roman Emperor syndrome'. This Emperors who thought they became gods and had all sort of supernatural powers. They also, like Trump, were surrounded by courtiers who were too scared to challenge these dangerous fantasies - and thousands suffered due to this madness.
Trump is exactly the same. He really believes that he has an enhanced intelligence, is the man every woman wants, knows about everything. He is totally insane - and in his position, dangerously so to very many people.
He stated that he 'loved the poorly education'.....sadly, they are the ones who have most suffered from his Presidency. And are poorly educated enough to really believe everything their God is saying.
Glad the bleach and Disinfectant companies in USA got out warnings so quickly, but there will be many of those 'poorly educated; who will be told that anything in opposition to what Trump says is 'Fake News', and they will go ahead with killing themselves.
His only interest at the moment is to become a second term President in November. Nothing else is important to him, CV 19 is just a nuisance (as far as he is concerned_ in that it is interrupting his campaign . A meglomaniac is always a danger, when he is the so-called leader of so much of the world (I do not like the term 'free world'), he is a pandemic in himself.

Trump recently had the leading vaccine expert, Rick Bright, removed from his position at Health and Human Services because he disagreed with him-

This might help

I saw in the Telegraph on Saturday that he now says he was being "sarcastic", saying "I was asking a question sarcastically to reporters like you, just to see what would happen".

If anyone saw the footage of the interview where he urged medical experts to look into the idea of injecting with disinfectant, then it seemed pretty clear that he was serious!

I read a quote from Ricky Gervais I think it was, before Trump became president. It said something like "the fact we need to put 'do not drink' on bottles of bleach makes me believe Trump can become president.

That was some serious foreshadowing

"I was asking a question sarcastically to reporters like you, just to see what would happen"

Even if that was true, what sort of nutter does that in the middle of addressing their nation?

" . . . he’s not in charge of a military dictatorship where thousands would have doubtless lost their lives at his hands."

Not yet. He could still be re-elected, then who knows what may happen . . . ?

I wonder what his next musing thought will be? Put bleach on your head...you will turn a lovely shade of blonde as well as beating Covid-19.