"In her interview with Trump, Owens raised doubts about the vaccine, saying the COVID-19 death toll has still increased even as the vaccines have been made available over the past year.
Trump firmly rejected the proposition. "No, the vaccine worked. But some people aren't taking it. The ones that get very sick and go to the hospital are the ones that don't take their vaccine.""
I wonder how different this all would have gone if trump took this seriously from the start - wore a mask, encouraged social distancing, treated this like a serious issue.
Everything would be different. But he treated Covid from the start not as an emergency but a threat to his re-election, so he minimized it, and by minimizing it he caused his supporters to reject everything that would address it; masks, vaccines, etc.
It all goes back to him and how he responded to it in those crucial first days.
He literally said to Candace Owens "I came up with a vaccine — with three vaccines — all are very, very good … in less than nine months. It was supposed to take five to 12 years.”
He wants credit, a Nobel prize, adulation, to win another election, all of the above.
All it took was for Biden to say his name in connection with the vaccine for little Donald to go all out on it. It's not like scientists were waiting for his permission to create a vaccine, they had already been working on it long before operation "warp speed". But the small man is so hungry for attention and credit that he can't help himself. Which is good here, if it helps convince skeptics to get the vaccine. It will accelerate the process of returning to normal, which will also be good for Biden and the Democrats' chances of retaining Congress. Clever move, Joe.
Trump's Handling of COVID Was Worse Than You Thought.
The worst thing trump did was downplay this and set the stage for the entire world to follow. If swift action was taken, if he didnt inject confusion and doubt, the world would be maybe in a better spot. I di think we missed a boat in a complete world lockdown for political reasons and also bc of ego etc.
So if he had handled this like a real president and put the right foot forward, wed be maybe Corona free by now. We never will know.
Trump admits he suddenly finds it 'very tough' to slam Biden after surprising vaccine comments
"Thanks to the prior administration and our scientific community, America is one of the first countries to get the vaccine," Biden said from the White House, referring to the Trump administration's vaccine effort referred to as Operation Warp Speed. "
Donald Trump has to be the easiest person in existence to manipulate.
Between his degrading brain and rampant narcissism all you have to do is complement him and he will fold to give you anything you want.
All of a sudden Trump has lost all his cards against Biden. The economy is doing better, joblessness claims are the lowest since Obama, and now Trump can't criticize Biden's handling of Covid.
Trump slips in admission of electoral defeat in new interview
"More than a year later, Donald Trump appeared to acknowledge his bitter 2020 election defeat.
The former president made the admission while discussing his long-promised border wall in a Tuesday interview, lamenting President Biden's discontinuation of the project back in April.
"They could have had [the wall] done in four weeks if they pursued it," Trump complained to host Gene Bailey. "We started building and we built almost 500 miles of wall, certain sections we couldn't get rights to and now we have rights."
"And had they, had we won the election, it would almost be – it would be completed now,"
Trump added, seeming to admit the reality of his loss. "
Stop the steal was grift from the get-go.
MAGA Diehards Melt Down Over Trump’s Pro-Vax Push
"In the crisscrossed, Q-addled conspiracy world where Donald Trump is held up as America’s great savior, and covid-19 vaccines are denounced as part of a poisonous plot to control the world, the former president’s own vaccination status — Trump privately got jabbed before departing the White House — has been an inconvenient truth."
Those words are nice ways to say dumb as fuck, just admit it. So many ways to sugarcoat it, but "conspiracy theorists, Trump supporters, Q-Anon" etc. are all just nice ways of saying these people are so stupid it's actually hurting the rest of us now.
I'm not saying this to be snarky, sarcastic, or preachy. We are moving backwards as a society. More lines are drawn in the sand to divide us every day.
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