The look on this expert’s face as Trump talks disinfectant and Covid-19 is everything

John Plunkett. Updated April 24th, 2020

You’ll have seen by now Donald Trump’s theory that disinfectant could be the cure for Covid-19.

There’s been no shortage of responses online, as you might imagine.

But not many spoke quite so loudly as the look on the face of Dr Birx, Trump’s response co-ordinator and expert in this sort of thing, as she listened to the so-called president bollock on.

Have a watch.

Here is Dr. Birx’s reaction when President Trump asks his science advisor to study using UV light on the human body and injecting disinfectant to fight the coronavirus. pic.twitter.com/MVno5X7JMA

— Daniel Lewis (@Daniel_Lewis3) April 24, 2020

Spoke volumes.

Imagine being Dr Birx, one of the world’s leading experts in immunology, vaccine research and global health, having to sit through this shit. pic.twitter.com/yqgnSLOjHH

— Nick Harvey (@mrnickharvey) April 24, 2020

An entire age summarised by one long slow zoom onto the face of a doctor whilst the President suggests her profession just hasn’t thought about shooting up bleach yet pic.twitter.com/ZQI9fBiejt

— James Felton (@JimMFelton) April 24, 2020

Dr Birx is all of us pic.twitter.com/pwyamhDSCC

— Tim Burgess (@Tim_Burgess) April 24, 2020

One question remained, however, and it was quite an important one.

Why do they just sit/stand there? pic.twitter.com/X9AbiDTrzF

— John Harris (@johnharris1969) April 24, 2020