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?
In my opinion, it's very simple. Trump is proud of the shots. He thinks people should take them. He either knows they are unsafe and is willfully lying, or actually thinks that they are safe, because his head is in the sand as far as injuries and deaths worldwide are concerned. I believe there is no 10D chessboard. If there was, there would have been some sort of intervention before they started jabbing kids. Yes, Trump has said we shouldn't jab kids, but what I'm getting at is that the vax is unsafe and if there was some sort of entity operating in the shadows, they would have put a stop to the madness, instead of allowing an open biological attack on the future leaders of our country. I'm not dooming, but I think it's important that we consider possibility that we are on our own.