The headquarters of Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, the company that makes the experimental antibody cocktail President Trump received for Covid-19. | Lev Radin/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images

Why Trump’s promise to bring America a free antibody cocktail to treat Covid-19 is so absurd.

A day after the Food and Drug Administration announced tougher measures for a coronavirus vaccine approval, dashing Trump’s hope of getting a vaccine out before the election, the president put out a video on Twitter suggesting he had changed course: a promise to bring the American people a Covid-19 “cure.”

Following his admission to the hospital Friday, “within a very short period of time, they gave me Regeneron… and it was, like, unbelievable. I felt good immediately,” Trump said in the video. The president then claimed “hundreds of thousands of doses” of the Regeneron drug were nearly ready, and that Americans could