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Liam O'Dell
Nov 27, 2021
According to one of his former aides, if Donald Trump had remained president, the US would “already have modified vaccines” for new strains of the coronavirus – such as the one named Omicron by the World Health Organisation on Friday.
In comments which completely underestimate how long it takes for scientists to research and tweak a vaccine, ex-senior Trump adviser Stephen Miller told Fox News: “If President Trump was still in office, by the way, we’d already have modified vaccines to deal with the new variants, which is a great point.”
It really isn’t, Stephen.
“President Trump brought us vaccines in record times, which he made voluntarily mandatory, and he had uptakes too,” he added.
He also saw 400,000 deaths from coronavirus under his administration, Steve, but you probably don’t want to talk about that.
While Trump’s supporters continue to indulge themselves in fantasies, many Twitter users chose to roast Miller for his “unbelievably irresponsible” hypothesis:
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@Acyn https://t.co/0SScqFybT4— vintagelover (@vintagelover) 1637982900
@Acyn An actual picture of Trump working on his pandemic response and vaccination program. https://t.co/36LkeTqJ8t— Boogie-Woogie Border Collie 🇺🇸🌊🇺🇸🌊 (@Boogie-Woogie Border Collie 🇺🇸🌊🇺🇸🌊) 1637983315
@Acyn He must share his secret crystal ball with me that he knows how to get a new vaccine in advance of a brand ne… https://t.co/LSoLWEuXzZ— Andromeda Deadface (@Andromeda Deadface) 1637983360
@Acyn https://t.co/4qmdoiHFy2— August (@August) 1637983670
@Acyn https://t.co/ns8MscSuOO— RICH Boone (@RICH Boone) 1637982917
Either that or advising us to mainline a 50/50 mix of Mr. Clean and Pine-Sol. https://t.co/inbvW6s542— S.V. Dáte (@S.V. Dáte) 1638020406
“…and used his own super human DNA to personally create a cure!” https://t.co/1Jw0gASGMC— Fred Wellman (@Fred Wellman) 1638019337
Because Donald Trump is a biblical prophet that can foresee future variants to create the modified vaccines ahead o… https://t.co/oifqHvRblL— Josh Jordan (@Josh Jordan) 1638020648
Others pointed out that staunch Trump supporters aren’t exactly the kind of people you’d expect to see at the front of the queue for a Covid vaccine:
@Acyn That Republicans would refuse to take.— TenaciousEye (@TenaciousEye) 1637983321
Wait so are trump supporters pro-vax now? Because I’m having a little trouble keeping up. https://t.co/nbZIzyMPu7— Molly Jong-Fast (@Molly Jong-Fast) 1638020082
Trump is anti-vax but ok! https://t.co/S74rC4ubdK— Eric Boehlert (@Eric Boehlert) 1638020211
@Acyn The vaccines they won’t take?— Nadine and Piper (@Nadine and Piper) 1638029850
Fortunately, we don’t have to live in a parallel universe where Trump secured a second term. Thank God.