PIERS Morgan has revealed how he reacted to his “seismic break up” with Donald Trump after the US President unfollowed him on Twitter.
The Good Morning Britain host was ditched from Trump’s friends list on Saturday after he blasted his “bats***” coronavirus cure theory.
The US president has since claimed he was being sarcastic when he suggested injecting coronavirus patients with disinfectant and using UV light to treat coronavirus.
But Piers isn’t buying his explanation, and today he told Susanna Reid he wished his old friend would listen to his constructive criticism.
He said: “There’s been a seismic split. We’ve broken up.”
When Susanna pressed him about the unfollow, Piers inhaled and said: “I took a deep breath and was like ‘I’m over it.'”
Piers believes Trump’s careless remarks could prove fatal at November’s presidential election.
“I wish he would listen to me,” said Piers. “If he could be more empathetic instead of floating mad theories…
“It will probably cost him the election, and it will be his own mouth that’s done it.
“I hope he changes. It’s too serious. He needs to stand there and be President of the United States.”
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Piers announced he’d been unfollowed as he shared a scathing column about Trump’s bleach comments.
He wrote: “UPDATE: President @realDonaldTrump has unfollowed me on Twitter, hours after I wrote this @DailyMail column”.
The pair had previously been on friendly terms, with Piers even scoring a sitdown interview with the US president in 2018.
But Piers had ripped into the president for the “incredibly dangerous” suggestion, saying: “I just see a president pretending to be a medical expert and spewing theories that might have disastrous consequences.”
He added: “By far the most reckless and dangerous thing President Trump has done is use the most powerful podium on earth to air his batsh*t crazy theories about how to beat the virus.”
Trump had suggested using UV rays on the body or people injecting themselves with bleach after a new study by the Department of Homeland Security found that direct sunlight, bleach, and isopropyl alcohol kill the virus.
During a press briefing, he said: “Supposing we hit the body with a tremendous, whether it’s ultraviolet or just very powerful light?” he asked Department of Homeland Security official William Bryan.
“And then I said supposing you brought the light inside the body which you can do either through the skin or in some other way.
“And I think you said you’re going to test that too? Sounds interesting.”
Experts warn that cleaning products can be dangerous and potentially fatal if ingested or put into the body.
And the US leader later tried to defend his comments, saying they had been “sarcastic”.
The news follows Trump’s press secretary Kayleigh McEnany insisting that his suggestion was taken out of context.
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Video from the White House Press briefing shows Coronavirus Task Force Expert Dr Deborah Birx’s reaction when he suggested using cleaner in the body.
Trump later questioned Dr Deborah Birx if it’s possible to “apply light and heat to a cure” at the briefing.
Dr. Birx replied, “Not as a treatment,” as seen in video from the press briefing.
Maryland officials have even had to clarify that “under no circumstances should any disinfectant product be administered into the body through injection, ingestion or any other route”, after the state’s emergency department received several calls regarding questions about disinfectant use.
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Now, Donald Trump reportedly plans to scale back his daily coronavirus press conferences following his abrupt exit from Friday’s briefing after just 22 minutes.
The president could stop daily briefings as early as next week, and they will be much shorter when he does appear, sources told Axios.
Several of Trump’s closest advisers inside and outside of the White House have said his “overexposure” is hurting his polling numbers against Democratic rival Joe Biden, the outlet reports.
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