Vogue editor Anna Wintour dares Trump to ‘try drinking disinfectant’ and urges Americans to back Biden
VOGUE editor Anna Wintour joked that President Donald Trump should “try drinking disinfectant” as she urged Americans to vote for Joe Biden for president.
The famously poised 70-year-old made the remarks in titled My Dream of Re-Emergence.
Wintour wrote: “But what will that re-emergence look like? I think we’ve all gotten past the idea that life will simply snap back to normal. (Except , who thinks we should try drinking disinfectant mixed with sunshine. To which I say, you first.)”
“Our economy is struggling in profound ways and will be struggling for some time to come. As all the scientists tell us, will not simply disappear.”
At a White House coronavirus task force briefing last week, , or exposed to different types of light. The president has since said the comment was sarcastic.
Trump made the comments after William Bryan, of Homeland Security, said that there are “emerging results” from new research that suggest solar light has a strong effect on on surfaces and in the air.
Bryan said scientists have seen a similar effect from higher temperatures and humidity.
He warned, however, that “it would be irresponsible for us to say that we feel the summer is going to totally kill the virus… that is not the case.”
Trump asked Bryan: "Supposing we hit the body with a tremendous, whether it's ultraviolet or just very powerful light?”
"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? Sounds interesting."
Wintour, who very publicly supported Hillary Clinton in her failed 2016 White House run, described the briefings — at which Trump now plans to scale back appearance because of the backlash to his disinfectant remarks — as “nightmarish.”
“The nightmarish briefings from the White House are making this period we’re living through so much worse,” she said. “It’s a daily reminder, as if we needed one, that the coming election is the most important of our lifetimes.”
“We must choose new leadership, because we will only re-emerge if we have a president who we can trust, who can be honest, who has the capacity for empathy, and who actually listens to science.”
“Please join me in supporting , whose experience and decency, I believe, will make him that kind of president, and who I believe will put our country on a path to recovery.”
Wintour explained that Biden, the , “understands that the long term challenge we face is not COVID-19 but climate change.”
“It’s almost eerie how clear our skies are now. How much cleaner our air has become. What an irony that a devastating pandemic has shown us how to take care of the planet better than we have.”
She added: “My hope is that under a new president we will find a way to rebuild sustainably. We must.”
Last month, of the coronavirus. Trump has been praised by many medical experts for his response to the pandemic.
She said that despite the ever-changing pandemic, one things “remains stubbornly unchanged: President Trump.”
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“I, like so many of us, have been appalled by how he has responded to the pandemic—the optimistic and fact-free assurances that all will be fine, the chaotic implementation of travel bans and claims about a 'foreign virus,' the narcissistic ease with which he has passed blame to others, his dishonesty with the American people, and worst of all, his shocking lack of empathy and compassion for those who are suffering and fearful.
"Meanwhile, his administration has been unforgivably slow to provide testing, and to mobilize treatment to all who will need it.”
Wintour said: “These weeks have been a reminder—as if we needed a reminder—that America must choose a new president.”