Trump did what he always does: he played a single-person game of telephone, in which somebody gave him information, he processed it, and it came out of his mouth in a completely different (and bizarre) way. That doesn't mean he was recommending actually injecting Clorox, people.
This is half the crazy stuff that exits his face: somebody said something mostly-reasonable, he interpreted in a bumper sticker fashion removed from the substance, and then the media ran with it as though he was making a serious policy suggestion.
And then they wonder why the stuff Trump says in pressers rarely becomes policy. Because it was never going to be policy! Every press conference is this, plus some media person trying to hold him to a literalist version of his bizarre off-the-cuff garbled reinterpretation.
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