Every thing Trump does has meaning, and is usually intentional.

He might have said he took the vaccine, but saying is not actually doing in this case, I have never seen video of him taking like many of the other politicians have done live on camera.

For him, it was better to say he took it, politically, he could not have done otherwise. For him to take credit for operation warp speed and for "doing something" about covid, he had to say he took it himself or else look like a fool.

Trump knows optics and how to position himself. He tried to push alternatives as well as the vax and had to eat shit for it, even though he was right.

Politics demanded he "do something" about covid, so he rammed doing something down their throat. He made Ford and others produce ventilators, he made other companies ramp up PPE equipment, he sent hospital ships to NY and LA, he was a fucking tornado of "doing something" including pushing the big pharma companies to "warp speed" something rather than sitting on their asses all day.

Now what they produced, he had no control over, he had to rely on "the machine" to tell him and everyone else if what they come up with was safe or not. They told him it was, they told us it was, but that was not the case.

I feel this is the time that Trump is letting them have enough rope to hang themselves, as he is not in charge anymore. Once the tipping point is reached, he will pivot and proclaim the lies he was fed about it, from Fauci and all the rest.