The ex-president’s customary applause turned to jeers when he encouraged supporters to get vaccinated and told O’Reilly that he received a booster himself. Even his successor, Joe Biden, has praised the initiative, stating: “Thanks to the prior administration and our scientific community, America was one of the first countries to get the vaccine.”īut Trump’s eagerness to claim credit has been undone by conservatives’ backlash against Biden’s efforts to legally require worker vaccinations, which they cast as a threat to individual freedom. In more conventional times, Trump’s Operation Warp Speed, which developed vaccines in record time, would be a source of pride for his voters. ![]() ![]() But Moore is indicative of the extreme anti-vaccine sentiment consuming the base of the Republican party – a monster that Trump himself can no longer control.Īmerica is exhausted by a pandemic still killing more than 2,400 people a day, the overwhelming majority of whom are unvaccinated, bringing the total death toll to 900,000. In fact, they have demonstrably saved thousands of lives. There is no scientific basis to the claim that the vaccines are killing people. ![]() We let him know ‘no’ and a couple of us even hollered out, ‘It’s killing people!’ ” “He heard us loud and clear because the Amway Center was packed. “He said take the vaccine but we all booed and said no ,” she recalled of Trump’s event with broadcaster Bill O’Reilly in Orlando, Florida.
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