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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Fri May 14, 2021, 12:44 PM May 2021

Trump All But Begs for Props on the Vaccines: 'Just a Mention Please!'


By Leia Idliby May 14th, 2021, 9:47 am

Former President Donald Trump all but begged for credit on the United States vaccine rollout plan, releasing a statement asking for “Just a mention please!”

Following the CDC’s announcement that vaccinated Americans can almost entirely shed their masks, Trump released his own statement, in an email via his Save America PAC — complaining that he has received no credit for the plan.

“Isn’t it incredible that because of the vaccines, which I and my Administration came up with years ahead of schedule (despite the fact that everybody, including [Anthony] Fauci, said would never happen), that we no longer need masks,” read the statement. “And yet our names are not even mentioned in what everybody is calling the modern day miracle of the vaccines?”

Trump claimed the President Joe Biden and his administration had “zero to do” with the vaccine, adding, “all they did was continue our plan of distribution, which was working well right from the beginning!”

“Without the vaccines, this world would have been in for another 1917 Spanish Flu, where up to 100 million people died,” he wrote. “Because of the vaccines we pushed and developed in record time, nothing like that will be even close to happening. Just a mention please!”

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Trump All But Begs for Props on the Vaccines: 'Just a Mention Please!' (Original Post) DonViejo May 2021 OP
Hopeless case of mental disorders Walleye May 2021 #1
Trump proves again that he doesn't know ." when to Shut the f**k up." Stuart G May 2021 #2
Who? soothsayer May 2021 #3
He came up with the mRNA vaccines in the early 1990s? Bleacher Creature May 2021 #4
OMFG Skittles May 2021 #5
I'm sorry about your loss, Skittles. Control-Z May 2021 #17
So sorry Skittles........... panader0 May 2021 #22
Whatev..... SammyWinstonJack May 2021 #6
Here's Trump's legacy on Covid EarlG May 2021 #7
Trump might want to read statements by Biden how no plans were left in place FloridaBlues May 2021 #8
The Trump Virus. Happy now? C_U_L8R May 2021 #9
Hey, it's Needy Amin! gratuitous May 2021 #10
That narcissistic piece of shit wants props for everything Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin May 2021 #11
Scumbag. With his claiming that COVID-19 was a hoax, etc., he made it far worse. The trump virus SWBTATTReg May 2021 #12
If he had won, we would still be a year away from distribution...he had no interest in it at all. spanone May 2021 #13
A mention? Hugin May 2021 #14
Bwah!1 UTUSN May 2021 #15
He forgot: Aristus May 2021 #16
I'll give him credit for the vaccines only if he takes credit for the deaths. tinrobot May 2021 #18
No Champp May 2021 #19
Awwwww..... Raftergirl May 2021 #20
The smallest person in the world. Kid Berwyn May 2021 #21
He wants the vaccine to be called the Trump vaccine. panader0 May 2021 #23
The vaccine was developed in spite of his efforts... kentuck May 2021 #24
What a sad, deranged pile of orange flesh this fool is. Vinca May 2021 #25
He did not meet with his pandemic response team after Nov 19th Johonny May 2021 #26
props for the bleach vaccine and the disinfectant vaccine. IcyPeas May 2021 #27

Bleacher Creature

(11,256 posts)
4. He came up with the mRNA vaccines in the early 1990s?
Fri May 14, 2021, 12:50 PM
May 2021

Fauci estimated that a vaccine would take 12-18 months. It basically took 11 months, which isn't too far off. And one of the biggest reasons for beating that estimate was the fact that testing was aided by the out of control spread of the virus, which actually should be attributed to Trump.

Skittles

(153,150 posts)
5. OMFG
Fri May 14, 2021, 12:52 PM
May 2021

my brother died in hospice Wednesday, and I was never able to visit him there, mostly because Donald Fucking Trump dropped the ball so fucking badly. FUCK HIM AND HIM SICK SUPPORTERS, I will NEVER forgive them

Control-Z

(15,682 posts)
17. I'm sorry about your loss, Skittles.
Fri May 14, 2021, 03:19 PM
May 2021

I can only imagine how painful it must be for you at this time. I wish you peace.

EarlG

(21,947 posts)
7. Here's Trump's legacy on Covid
Fri May 14, 2021, 12:57 PM
May 2021


That video was posted on Sep 29, 2020. Another 200,000 would be dead by the time he left office.

FloridaBlues

(4,008 posts)
8. Trump might want to read statements by Biden how no plans were left in place
Fri May 14, 2021, 01:08 PM
May 2021

I believe it's well documented.
What a delusional crybaby.

SWBTATTReg

(22,114 posts)
12. Scumbag. With his claiming that COVID-19 was a hoax, etc., he made it far worse. The trump virus
Fri May 14, 2021, 01:44 PM
May 2021

probably never would have spread so wide and far, had someone else been in charge back then. Thus, the murder of numerous Americans should be laid squarely at rump's smelly feet.

spanone

(135,828 posts)
13. If he had won, we would still be a year away from distribution...he had no interest in it at all.
Fri May 14, 2021, 01:50 PM
May 2021

Keep begging you whiney-assed fool

Hugin

(33,135 posts)
14. A mention?
Fri May 14, 2021, 01:54 PM
May 2021

Your complete incompetence besides resulting in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of innocent Americans made having the vaccine a necessity as soon as possible after you became a former.

How does that grab your porcine ass?

kentuck

(111,082 posts)
24. The vaccine was developed in spite of his efforts...
Fri May 14, 2021, 03:57 PM
May 2021

He called the virus a hoax.

He didn't want people to come into the country off the ship because it would drive up the numbers and make him look bad.

He was more concerned with keeping the economy and the stock market than he was with preventing lives from the pandemic.

He discouraged his followers from wearing masks and his words and actions led to many more lives being lost to the COVID.

Those are the facts.

Johonny

(20,840 posts)
26. He did not meet with his pandemic response team after Nov 19th
Fri May 14, 2021, 05:45 PM
May 2021

He had no plan to distribute the vaccines. He deserves no credit.

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