Jimmy Kimmel said the unproven coronavirus treatment pushed last year by then-President Donald Trump ― and parroted by right-wing media ― is officially a bust. And now one state is $2 million in the hole because of it.
But as Kimmel noted, there were hints Trump knew all along the drug was a bust.
“When Trump got the coronavirus, you know what he didn’t take?” Kimmel asked. “Hydroxychloroquine!”
Oklahoma, however, went all-in based on Trump’s recommendation, spending $2 million to stockpile the drug ― or as Kimmel put it: “using taxpayer money to show Donald Trump how very much he means to them.”
The state is now trying to return the drug. In response, Kimmel mockingly suggested a tourism campaign around it:
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