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President Trumps golf company tweeted out a video earlier this month in which pro golfer John Daly suggested that drinking a bottle of vodka a day can kill this coronavirus. Trump Golf tweeted a video on April 9 of Daly telling viewers to be healthy and be smart before they can resume golfing, Golfweek first reported on Sunday.
But I kind of got a cure for this, Daly deadpanned. I only drink one drink a day it just happens to be a bottle of good old Belvedere. You know, you just drink one of these a day. You know, sippy sippy on a little McDonalds Diet Coke. You know, wash it down pretty good. Never have a hangover, he added. And thats the way you kill this coronavirus, I believe.
Public health experts have said drinking alcohol does not protect people from the virus and that heavy consumption could weaken the immune system.
Consuming alcohol will not destroy the virus, and its consumption is likely to increase the health risks if a person becomes infected with the virus, a World Health Organization fact sheet says.
The Trump Organization did not immediately return a request for comment.
Link to tweet
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/493753-trump-golf-company-tweeted-out-suggestion-to-kill-this-coronavirus
brokephibroke
(1,883 posts)Initech
(100,099 posts)bullwinkle428
(20,629 posts)Thanks for encouraging his behavior, Chump!
spanone
(135,859 posts)Shows more about trump than Mr. Daly.
mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)That's exactly how alcoholics rationalize.
Man, if I didn't DRINK? ALL this bad stuff would happen!
It's fucking textbook.
I'd say 'that shit ain't funny' ... but ... since he's a sufferer, I won't call him out for it. I've said shit like that too.
HOWEVER ... that doesn't change what an asshat Trump is for retweeting that, esp. given his brother's demise from his alcoholism.
underpants
(182,868 posts)You covered it all right there.
23 days for me.
mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)Not sure I'd have ANY days under my belt if I'd not already had some 'momentum' when the CV hit. Really good on you to successfully start your sobriety at a time like this.
EXTRA sobriety brownie points for YOU!
riversedge
(70,282 posts)this alcoholic??