Statement from the Office of Former President Donald Trump:
"I hope everyone remembers when they're getting the COVID-19 (often referred to as the China Virus) Vaccine, that if I wasn't President, you wouldn't be getting that beautiful 'shot' for 5 years, at best, and probably wouldn't be getting it at all. I hope everyone remembers!"
-- Former President Donald Trump
This statement was released a few hours after President Joe Biden announced his administration would order another 100 million doses of the one-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccine to bolster the nation's efforts to get shots into arms.
This was basically a tweet with a letterhead on it, which will have to suffice since Trump was de-platformed by social media. The depth of Trump's egotism, and his desperate need for individual credit is pathetic. Never mind that he admitted to downplaying the threat of the Coronavirus a year ago. Trump wants us to believe that a vaccine would have never been developed without Operation Warp Speed... even though Pfizer did not accept government money to develop, test or expand manufacturing capacity under Operation Warp Speed. The only thing Operation Warp Speed did, was incentivize the development of the vaccine - which was already under way.
Trump will always make for an interesting study in narcissism.