Trump acknowledged the tension Saturday, when he skirted around using the word while simultaneously boasting about his efforts to get out a vaccine within the first year of the pandemic. His remarks illustrate the extent of how the vaccine, which received wide support from both major parties, have become politicized.

"We did so much in terms of therapeutics, and a word that I'm not allowed to mention—but I'm still proud of that word," he said. "We did that in nine months, and it was supposed to take five years to 12 years and nobody else could've done it. But I'm not mentioning it in front of my own people."

https://www.newsweek.com/trump-avoids-word-vaccine-alaska-rally-after-boos-over-it-alabama-1723229

He doesn't know it's a killer shot?