Everyone is making up all sorts of stories about why Trump shilled the jab. My take is we need to look at the chess board and not the individual move.
By promoting the vax he knows it will have very little affect on his base taking it. So getting people to take the jab does not seem to be the reason he shilled.
As a master media manipulator it seems more likely that Trump is trying to get the media and politicians to cover his endorsement.
So if not to get people to take the jab then why endorse it? What move is Trump making
My best guess is he is positioning himself so when they come down hard on lockdowns that he can oppose them and he will have clout since he cant be labeled as antivax since it really is Trumps vaccine that he made and delivered.
I also think it might be a sign that the covid jab is really not that bad. So if you did need to take the jab that it is not going to be terrible life ending for most. Even though I don't see any need to take the jab I know many many who have and by Trump still endorsing it I am somewhat relieved that it cant be a death shot like some are making it out to be, or at least there will be a cure for the effects. He himself took the jab which to me means that he is not asking anymore than he is willing to do himself.
What are your thoughts on the next move he will make on the vaccine?
He's doing it to help us fight the vaccines.
What if Trump came out against the vaccine, called it unsafe and ineffective. Told everybody to stay away from it? What would the news be full of?
"Trump tells outright lies to his sycophant supporters and endangers everybody's health for his own political gain."
"Trump, who doesn't know anything about science or medicine, gives his millions of supporters the false idea that the vaccines are unsafe and ineffective."
And what would be the effect of that?
It allows the pro-vaccine crowd the ability to discount any argument, evidence or scientific research as merely parroting the lies of Donald J Trump.
Do you doubt me? Consider what happened to HCQ. Almost immediate there was fake research showing HCQ was dangerous and so ineffective that it killed patients. Doctors were threatened for prescribing it. Governors made executive orders to forbid pharmacies from filling the prescriptions. It was crazy.
What drove all that? How many people died needlessly because of that?
And it happened overnight because DJT said it looked promising.
So what he is doing is helping us fight the vaccines. He is going to take wind out of the sails of all the people who desperately want to blame Trump for anti-vaxxers.
So the pro-vaxxer can't say that we are blindly following the non-doctor Trump. They have to actually address our gathered research, which they don't want to do.
Trump is trading his political capital in order to help us fight the vaccines.