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Trump's Remarks During an Update on Operation Warp Speed; November 13, 2020
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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. Its 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 were 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 weve been able to do, and weve 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 thats 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 Americas 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 didnt; these great research companies didnt.
And as youve 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 well get through this, and well 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
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. Its 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 were 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 weve been able to do, and weve 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 thats 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 Americas 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 didnt; these great research companies didnt.
And as youve 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 well get through this, and well 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
Wow, even just reading this I burped up a little bit of vomit into my mouth. Yuck!
machoneman
Nov 2020
#3
cyclonefence
(4,483 posts)1. Whew
All those hours in the lab turned his hair white.
cutroot
(867 posts)2. They sure love to congratulate themselves for bullshit.
Pfizer says that their vaccine had nothing to do with "Operation Warp Speed".
machoneman
(3,951 posts)3. Wow, even just reading this I burped up a little bit of vomit into my mouth. Yuck!