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Trump Fumes Biden Will Get Credit for Vaccine
November 17, 2020 at 10:35 pm EST By Taegan Goddard
The president had said he envisioned large, public, mask-free eventsparticularly when the weather grew warmer in, what he anticipated to be, a second termand rallies to celebrate the successes of Operation Warp Speed, the public-private partnership to develop a vaccine. When distribution began, Trump had wanted to be directly involved in the vaccines promotion, gaming out a video campaign about the safety and success of his operation.
helpisontheway
(5,004 posts)this is a win for science and our amazing scientists. Trump did not do shit. Literally a waste of space.
maddiemom
(5,106 posts)He's already had PLENTY of "large, public mask-free events."
Bad Thoughts
(2,514 posts)That's just not what presidents do. That's not what we expect them to do.
JHB
(37,133 posts)...but that's mostly because the previous guy was too busy with his pet projects to pursue the guy who orchestrated a massive terrorist attack on us.
XanaDUer2
(10,327 posts)that's politics, Donnie
Lucinda
(31,170 posts)Auggie
(31,067 posts)flibbitygiblets
(7,220 posts)Possibly endangering millions of lives. Because he wants credit.
Biden has a plan to stop the virus. He DESERVES all the goddamn credit. If trump had followed Obamas plan in the first place, we wouldnt be in this mess.
mtngirl47
(985 posts)sponsored by McCain and signed by Obama.
Nexus2
(1,261 posts)All those hours in the lab, slaving over hot test tubes unappreciated!
GoCubsGo
(32,061 posts)They made the investment in the technology that allowed these drug companies to produce a vaccine so quickly. Syphilitic, Orange Manbaby can go fuck himself. You don't get "credit" for doing nothing.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)In the U.S., as well as in many other nations.
And as deaths of people and businesses soared in the U.S., Trump very belatedly realized it WAS about HIM.
Modern pharma created miracles in spite of him. With death sweeping the globe, advances that normally take years, even decades, were brought about in less than a year. By THEM. Government money for development was welcome but not necessary. Pfizer, for instance, chose to take none because Trump couldn't be trusted.
GoCubsGo
(32,061 posts)It was the Obama administration that made the decision to invest in mRNA vaccine research, which is one platform being used to develop potential vaccines in record time.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)slashes to "big government" funding for medical research. Including to Ebola research as that was becoming a global health priority and later arrived in the U.S. Clinton/Gore boosted medical research funding that was later slashed also. Of course and of course.
radius777
(3,624 posts)therefore Dems should get the credit for any scientific advancement that happens at all.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Trump AND DC Republicans refused to act to stop or limit spread from then to now, didn't just not act. Blocked action. In May, at the height of the first wave of deaths and economic devastation, Trump announced the government would start supporting development of a vaccine.
Nearly 2 decades ago, Senator Richard Burr chaired the intelligence committee when it developed legislation for a plan to stop pandemic disease from devastating America. Spurred by the very successfully contained but lethal SARS1 virus. Last winter when SARS2 arrived on our shores, he sold stock, warned donors to expect problems with the economy, and told the public it was nothing more than a cold.
AllyCat
(16,039 posts)No credit. Only scorn for the murderous Orange con.
Kahuna
(27,310 posts)Whiskeytide
(4,459 posts)Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)I do as well.
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,789 posts)One of the joint ventures had to send out high level spokesperson to state that the vaccine was developed without the Operation Warp Speed thingy.
Meanwhile, Biden is being blocked, vindictively by sociopath tRump, from accessing information and services to do effective planning for distribution.
ProfessorGAC
(64,425 posts)...I'd bet a paycheck that someone is leaking critical information to the Biden team.
Even someone in HHS that was ambivalent about doing it, might do it as a middle finger to Wolf's directive.
What are they going to do, fire them for 67 days? Day one, Biden orders them reinstated.
JI7
(89,182 posts)Roisin Ni Fiachra
(2,574 posts)You'll get plenty of credit for spreading the Trump Virus, and sickening and killing more Americans than all the rest of the US Presidents combined.
This is your legacy, little guy. Move on.
Chainfire
(17,308 posts)Biden, by executive order, should rename the Covid-19 to the Trump Virus. Give credit where credit is due.
keithbvadu2
(36,369 posts)But Donald, you get full credit for a quarter million deaths and climbing.
The Trump/Pence personal death count.
NCjack
(10,279 posts)marble falls
(56,359 posts)Norbert
(6,030 posts)I know Pfiser wasn't.
If Moderna wasn't the orange anus will have a tough sell job to people that aren't his lemmings.
Aviation Pro
(12,053 posts)Go fuck your face some more, fuckface.
Botany
(70,291 posts)God i hate that orange slime ball. Credit? Are you kidding me? What about saving lives?
Trump will get credit for making the world sick because he got rid of all the people, protocols,
and materials that were in place and could have stopped the virus cold in China.
appleannie1
(5,044 posts)If he really had anything to do with it I would not be looking forward to getting the shots. Everything he is a part of fails and I don't want to grow a beard or have my nose fall off or something.
louis-t
(23,199 posts)and the vaccine came under Biden.
SammyWinstonJack
(44,129 posts)Credit where credit is due.
liberalla
(9,166 posts)liberalmuse
(18,670 posts)Americans as a collective need to think long and hard as to why someone like this horror show was allowed anywhere near the Presidency. It does not speak well of us.
NoRoadUntravelled
(2,626 posts)were in charge of distribution of PPEs, ventilators and the like. An epic fail.
DFW
(54,057 posts)The weather was going to get warmer next year, no matter who is president.
Actually, because of you, TOO much warmer.
Solly Mack
(90,740 posts)Sick fuck.
greymattermom
(5,751 posts)for making the US the worst country in the world?
Marcuse
(7,399 posts)Initech
(99,915 posts)Happy Hoosier
(7,081 posts)WHAT AN ASSHOLE.
Fortinbras Armstrong
(4,473 posts)Since he spent the last year denying that there was a serious problem with Covid-19, why should anyone praise him?
Cha
(295,929 posts)fuck the Liar about COVID for 70 days & still LIES about it.
he abandoned it.. didn't wear a mask.. got it.. and his cult are stuck in a no mask rut.. endangering other people.
LeftishBrit
(41,192 posts)The people who really deserve the credit are the scientists who develop the vaccines; but honestly what matters is to end this nightmare and to save lives and livelihoods!
babylonsister
(170,964 posts)IowaGuy
(776 posts)gulliver
(13,142 posts)Trump will be remembered for pushing Republicans into the "just ignore it and let people die" approach. He and his Republican governors and others who didn't enforce mask wearing will be remembered the same way. They let a biological enemy attack the United States and and kill people and pretended it wasn't happening...just to try for better election results for themselves. That's the way it looks to me.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,111 posts)Dipshit has to make it about himself.