You knew this was coming

Trump on Tuesday doubled down on his promotion of hydroxychloroquine to treat Covid-19 despite no evidence of the malaria drug’s efficacy in doing so.

“Many doctors think it is extremely successful, the hydroxychloroquine coupled with the zinc and perhaps the azithromycin,” Trump asserted at a White House briefing, though there is no evidence from at least five rigorous clinical trials that hydroxychloroquine has any impact in preventing the virus or treating mildly to severely ill cases.

“I happen to think it works in the early stages,” the president continued, repeating his past claim, “I think front-line medical people believe that, too — some. Many.”

  Politico

"Many people" think what he thinks.

Trump initially revived the issue in a flurry of social media posts late Monday, tweeting more than a dozen times in defense of hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for Covid-19.

And we know why.

Debate over the drug has resurfaced after a study run by the Henry Ford Medical Center suggested this month that the pill could help mildly ill patients recover faster. While Trump and trade adviser Peter Navarro touted the research, experts swiftly pointed out that patients were not randomized, that there was no placebo to compare with, and that many were on steroids — which are known to help with inflammation.

Another great study by Donald LeTrompe.

Trump argued that [hydroxychloroquine] had been politicized because of his advocacy for it and complained that Fauci’s approval rating among the public was much higher than his own.

“He‘s got this high approval rating. Why don‘t I have a high approval rating with respect — and the administration — with respect to the virus?” Trump asked, painting Fauci simultaneously as both expendable and an important teammate.

"I" - "and the administration" as an afterthought, because he knows how vain and self-centered he sounds.

“It sort of is curious. A man works for us, with us, very closely — Dr. Fauci and Dr. Birx, also — highly thought of, and yet they‘re highly thought of but nobody likes me. It can only be my personality. That‘s all,” he concluded.

Dear God. LOL. That's NOT the only reason, but isn't that enough?

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.