After President Trump suggested injecting disinfectant and using UV light as treatments for the coronavirus during a White House press conference on Thursday, confusion and shock reigned in the medical and scientific communities. 

“I couldn’t believe it when I checked the news this morning,” said psychologist and conspiracy theory expert Daniel Jolley at the University of Nottingham. 

Trump now falsely claims he did not suggest looking into disinfectant injections as a coronavirus treatment. “I was asking a question sarcastically to reporters like you just to see what would happen,” he told journalists in the Oval Office.

But over on Facebook, in a group for followers of the notorious pro-Trump conspiracy theory movement QAnon, users jumped to the president’s aid. “DID EVERYONE GET THE PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE TONIGHT?” wrote one user. Another posted pictures of newly purchased chemical agents with the caption “Suck it, Big Pharma.” “It seems far fetched but he is spot on,” wrote another. “He just revealed one of the greatest secrets in medicine and nobody even noticed.”