Pillow fight: Don pal’s bug cure roasted

Hydroxychloroquine is so over when it comes to miracle cures for coronavirus.

Mike Lindell, the Trumpbacking TV huckster in charge of MyPillow.com, defended Tuesday his shameless promotion of an unproven herbal supplement that he claims wards off the effects of COVID-19.

Lindell, who hawks bedding products in his company’s omnipresent cable TV ads, made no apologies for his financial stake in a company making a product made from a poisonous plant called oleander.

“I’m just telling you this is the answer [to the pandemic],” Lindell said in an epic smallscreen scrap with CNN host Anderson Cooper. “Wouldn’t you want to save lives?”

Cooper blasted Lindell as a shady “snake-oil salesman” and accused him of being “willing to sell anything.”

But the fluffer-upper guy insisted he is like the Mother Teresa of COVID-cure pitchmen.

“I’ve given it to my friends and family. This saved their lives,” Lindell said. “Don’t you want to save lives?”

Lindell, who has appeared by President Trump’s side at coronavirus news conferences, says he’s proud Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson, a fellow bornagain Christian, has backed the supplement.

Trump says he has ordered federal officials to look into the oleander-based supplement after Carson spoke with him about Lindell’s miracle cure.

Scientists say there is no proof the supplement can cure coronavirus or that it is safe to take at all. Oleander is a toxic plant, so it would not be surprising if the supplement has harmful effects, they say.

The Food and Drug Administration has not approved Lindell’s supplement for use to combat COVID-19 or anything else.

It’s not the first time Trump and some of his supporters have fallen for a supposed coronavirus cure.

The president and his rightwing base have for months promoted hydroxychloroquine as a potential cure for the deadly virus, even after medical experts determined it’s useless.