Today two years ago, a thread:

Trump begins the April 23 #TrumpPressBriefing by claiming that he’s spoken with unnamed “numerous” world leaders over the past two days and “they are saying we are leading the way” in the coronavirus response. (The US has the most cases and the most deaths.) pic.twitter.com/Emnyk8XelX

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 23, 2020

including this classic bit:

“The disinfectant, where it knocks it out in a minute, and is there a way we can do something like that by injection inside, or almost a cleaning. It gets in the lungs” — Trump seems to suggests that injecting disinfectant inside people could be a treatment for the coronavirus pic.twitter.com/amis9Rphsm

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 23, 2020