Trump says he's taking controversial COVID-19 drug and now everyone's making Flintstone vitamin jokes

During a roundtable on Monday, President Trump told reporters that he's been taking hydroxychloroquine to avoid contracting coronavirus.  Toward the end of the discussion with restaurant executives and other members of the industry, the president casually dropped that he's been taking the drug (which is used to treat malaria, lupus, and arthritis) for "about a week and a half."  "I'm still here," he continued. When pressed on whether there was evidence that taking the drug has a preventative effect, Trump said he's received "a lot of positive calls about it."    He also dismissed recent studies that concluded that hydroxychloroquine wasn't an effective COVID-19 treatment.  Read more...More about Trump, Coronavirus, Hydroxychloroquine, Culture, and Web Culture