The White House has changedcovid.govinto a website for promoting the so-called lab leak theory for the origins of covid-19.
But the best science we have at the moment still suggests covid had natural origins.
At some point in the past week, covid-19, started to redirect to the White House.
US President Donald Trump during a meeting with Giorgia Meloni, Italy’s prime minister, not pictured, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Thursday, April 17, 2025.© Chris Kleponis/CNP/Bloomberg via Getty Images
Trumps allies have long claimed that covid-19 was designed in a lab and was either intentionally or accidentally leaked.
But at least Trumps new website looks dumb as shit.
Another user compared the design to the Pixarlamp logo.
Screenshot: Internet Archive / Wayback Machine
Twice, in fact.
And that means we wake up to new absurdities like this every day.
It wasnt Trumpsbungled response to testingearly in the pandemic that allowed the virus tospread like wildfire.
Screenshot: White House
It wasnt Trumps inability to provide health care workers withenough PPE.
It wasnt hisbald-faced liestold directly to the American people as a way tocalm the markets.
It was some shadowy forces in China who were just trying to hurt Americans.
The idea that covid-19 was designed in a lab is certainly something that couldve happened.
Its just that theres no strong evidence for that theory.
Trump needs there to be some other outside force that he can blame.
Because compared to the rest of the world, Trump failed spectacularly to keep Americans safe.
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