Has Trump been trying out his own dodgy medical advice? It would explain a few things | Arwa Mahdawi

The president has announced he is taking hydroxychloroquine to fight coronavirus. Perhaps he has also been injecting bleach in front of Fox News

How is Donald Trump still alive? Seriously, it defies science. The man reportedly drinks 12 Diet Cokes a day, appears to exist purely on Big Macs and doesn't do any exercise because he thinks the human body is like a battery and working out depletes it. On top of all this, it turns out the 73-year-old is popping pills with potentially fatal side-effects for reasons that make no medical sense.

We learned on Monday that the president has been taking the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine to ward off Covid-19. This goes against the advice of his own government. After Trump repeatedly championed the drug as a gamechanger", the Food and Drug Administration stressed that it hasn't been shown to work as a coronavirus treatment or preventive and should only be administered in hospital or research settings due to the risk of potential heart problems. As Nancy Pelosi bluntly noted, taking unapproved drugs is particularly dangerous for people in Trump's age group and his, shall we say, weight group".