White House Aides Groan, Try to Clean Up After ‘Dumb’ Trump Again

President Donald Trump on Friday tried to distance himself from his suggestion that people infected with COVID-19 consider injecting sunlight or disinfectant into their bodies, claiming that his comments the day before were merely sarcasm meant to rile up reporters. But by that point, enough people had taken him literally (and for good reason, since there was no trace of sarcasm in his voice) that at least one local health department was noticing an uptick in calls related to people ingesti