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mahatmakanejeeves

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Sat Nov 14, 2020, 09:39 AM Nov 2020

Trump's Remarks During an Update on Operation Warp Speed; November 13, 2020

REMARKS

Remarks by President Trump During an Update on Operation Warp Speed

Issued on: November 13, 2020

Rose Garden

4:25 P.M. EST

THE PRESIDENT: Thank you very much. Thank you. It’s beautiful out here this time of year. In the past nine months, my administration has initiated the single greatest mobilization in U.S. history — pioneering, developing, and manufacturing therapies and vaccines in record time. Numbers like nobody has seen before.

No medical breakthrough of this scope and magnitude has ever been achieved this rapidly, this quickly. And we’re very proud of it, and I had tremendous help from the military — generals, admirals — and many of the great people at the White House.

Operation Warp Speed is unequaled and unrivaled anywhere in the world, and leaders of other countries have called me to congratulate us on what we’ve been able to do, and we’ve helped many countries with their ventilators and all of the problems they were having.

{snip}

I will now pass to my co-leader, General Perna, who will tell you more about the support that the operation has provided to manufacturing of the vaccine and also to their distribution.

Thank you very much.

GENERAL PERNA: Mr. President, thank you for allowing me to continue service of our great nation as the co-leader with Dr. Moncef Slaoui on this mission.

{snip}

I will end where I started: This is about saving lives, the lives of the great American people. And we will not rest until we are successful and that we have irreversible momentum to returning our nation back to normal. Thank you, Mr. President.

THE PRESIDENT: Thank you very much. Thank you, General, very much. Great job.

Alex, please.

SECRETARY AZAR: Thank you, Mr. President, for providing the leadership that’s gotten us where we are today. The success that Operation Warp Speed has realized so far has been made possible only because of the bold vision you announced not even six months ago, right here in the Rose Garden.

{snip}

Thank you, Mr. President, for making that very bright future possible for the American people.

THE PRESIDENT: Appreciate it. Thank you.

Mike Pence, please.

THE VICE PRESIDENT: Thank you, Mr. President. And on behalf of the White House Coronavirus Task Force, I was grateful to just have a few minutes today to commend the team of Operation Warp Speed.

It was your vision that we could harness the ingenuity and the creativity of America’s greatest pharmaceutical and research companies to speed, in record time, a vaccine that would save American lives.


You told the American people that we would have a vaccine before the end of the year, and some scoffed at that timetable. But I can tell you, the team on Operation Warp Speed didn’t; these great research companies didn’t.

And as you’ve articulated here, Mr. President, the American people can be comforted with all the news this week that help is on the way.

{snip}

And — and we’ll get through this, and we’ll get through this together. Thank you, Mr. President.

THE PRESIDENT: Thank you very much, Mike. And thank you, everybody. Thank you very much.

END 4:58 P.M. EST
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Trump's Remarks During an Update on Operation Warp Speed; November 13, 2020 (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2020 OP
Whew cyclonefence Nov 2020 #1
They sure love to congratulate themselves for bullshit. cutroot Nov 2020 #2
Wow, even just reading this I burped up a little bit of vomit into my mouth. Yuck! machoneman Nov 2020 #3

cutroot

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2. They sure love to congratulate themselves for bullshit.
Sat Nov 14, 2020, 09:57 AM
Nov 2020

Pfizer says that their vaccine had nothing to do with "Operation Warp Speed".

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