Per the transcript, after Bryan’s presentation, the President said:
TRUMP:Thank you very much. So I asked Bill 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, supposing we hit the body with a tremendous — whether it’s ultraviolet or just very powerful light — and I think you said that 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, and I think you said you’re going to test that too. It sounds interesting.
TRUMP: Right. And then I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in a minute. 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 would be interesting to check that. So, that, you’re going to have to use medical doctors with. But it sounds — it sounds interesting to me.
[Notice he didn’t say we should start injecting ourselves with disinfectant, he asked Bryan to check “is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning.”]
Jonathan Karl asked if there was any scenario where cleaners could be injected, and after Mr. Bryan answered President Trump added that it wouldn’t be via injection, but by cleaning an area.
KARL: Can I ask about — the President mentioned the idea of cleaners, like bleach and isopropyl alcohol you mentioned. There’s no scenario that could be injected into a person, is there? I mean —
BRYAN: No, I’m here to talk about the findings that we had in the study. We won’t do that within that lab and our lab. So —
TRUMP: It wouldn’t be through injection. We’re talking about through almost a cleaning, 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.
Obviously Trump is brainstorming in front of a public audience, which is, of course politically dangerous. But you can see how, were he with a group of creative scientific people, such ideas would be brought up quickly and combined with other ideas from the group. Criticism of ideas is verboten in the first phase of brainstorming and is left for a later winnowing-out phase after the group's brainstorming is finished.
So for a little while we saw how President Trump works in private, tossing ideas out with others first and only afterwards weighing them, which is the best way to brainstorm.
Due to the press' coverage of this and other glimpses, we'll likely never know much about how this president thinks. This will drive him to be more and more private (and circumspect) in his idea generation. That is bad for everyone.
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[ 2.9 ms ] story [ 19.8 ms ] threadPer the transcript, after Bryan’s presentation, the President said:
TRUMP:Thank you very much. So I asked Bill 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, supposing we hit the body with a tremendous — whether it’s ultraviolet or just very powerful light — and I think you said that 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, and I think you said you’re going to test that too. It sounds interesting.
TRUMP: Right. And then I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in a minute. 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 would be interesting to check that. So, that, you’re going to have to use medical doctors with. But it sounds — it sounds interesting to me.
[Notice he didn’t say we should start injecting ourselves with disinfectant, he asked Bryan to check “is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning.”]
Jonathan Karl asked if there was any scenario where cleaners could be injected, and after Mr. Bryan answered President Trump added that it wouldn’t be via injection, but by cleaning an area.
KARL: Can I ask about — the President mentioned the idea of cleaners, like bleach and isopropyl alcohol you mentioned. There’s no scenario that could be injected into a person, is there? I mean —
BRYAN: No, I’m here to talk about the findings that we had in the study. We won’t do that within that lab and our lab. So —
TRUMP: It wouldn’t be through injection. We’re talking about through almost a cleaning, 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.
So for a little while we saw how President Trump works in private, tossing ideas out with others first and only afterwards weighing them, which is the best way to brainstorm.
Due to the press' coverage of this and other glimpses, we'll likely never know much about how this president thinks. This will drive him to be more and more private (and circumspect) in his idea generation. That is bad for everyone.