Trump is no fool when it comes to marketing and politicking. The media bashed him for, well, everything obviously but in particular his response to the coronavirus.

The smartest thing he could have done was to introduce the leadership and then stop talking, let them dig their own graves. Instead he tried to be up in the middle of it, spoke off the cuff too many times when people were still expecting a vague statesman to parrot carefully constructed empty tautologies like Obama, and saw the operation warp speed vaccine creation as a huge political bargaining chip to exploit for his own purposes. He must have know the vaccine was being worked on way ahead of time, which is info that is now starting to come out more and more. Just how early, if the allegations are true, is incredibly shocking a whole other story.

When he first said there would be a vaccine before the election was decided I thought he had to be wrong, never in the history of medicine has something like that been created in such a short amount of time. Then what happens? The day after the election is decided, too late for it to help him, it is announced the vax is ready to hit the market. Ultra suspicious timing.

At the end of the day it comes down to power and money. If Trump said don’t take the vax it would have been political suicide. So instead, he like everyone else is going to come out and regurgitate the talking point ‘safe and effective’ in spite of the blatantly obvious fact that neither of those claims could possibly be known to anyone repeating them. When you are wrong, and everyone else is wrong with you, it’s easy to later say well yeah I was wrong the experts were wrong everyone was wrong. When everyone is wrong there is no one to blame. Politicians don’t typically put themselves out there and speak against ‘the experts’ or prevailing opinions, even if secretly they have their own concerns. If they did that sort of thing they would never ever rise to the ranks of the office of the President.