Well, this is upsetting.

Former Guy Donald Trump stirred up vaccine opposition on Sunday, even linking it to his false claims about the 2020 election. Which is insane. Because remember that Trump got the vaccine, as did his wife. But of course he didn’t get it on camera, because Trump wants his cake and to eat it too.

There has been significant focus on Trump supporters either being hesitant to get vaccines or outright refusing to, even though the vaccines were developed under Operation Warp Speed during his administration.

In his statement Sunday, Trump said, “Joe Biden kept talking about how good of a job he’s doing on the distribution of the Vaccine that was developed by Operation Warp Speed or, quite simply, the Trump Administration. He’s not doing well at all. He’s way behind schedule.”

The former president then went on to say that people “are refusing to take the Vaccine because they don’t trust his Administration, they don’t trust the Election results, and they certainly don’t trust the Fake News, which is refusing to tell the Truth.”

Just in:
“Joe Biden kept talking about how good of a job he's doing on the distribution of the Vaccine that was developed by Operation Warp Speed or, quite simply, the Trump Administration.” pic.twitter.com/iMwHpxsyL2

— 🇺🇸 ERIC BOLLING 🇺🇸 (@ericbolling) July 18, 2021

Trump has made a couple of comments saying people should get vaccinated, but most of his recent public statements have just repeated his usual baseless claims and conspiracies about the election.

He has referenced the vaccines in several recent statements, but has not prioritized actively encouraging his hesitant supporters to actually get vaccinated. Just further proof that Trump doesn’t care one iota for his supporters…he only cares what they can do for him.

Twitter had a field day:

Trump, who had been more or less a proponent and even cheerleader for the vaccines (since he wanted credit for them), is now edging over to justifying vaccine hesitancy and even resistance, so as to stay in sync with his supporters, which will reinforce their vaccine resistance. pic.twitter.com/h8WATO0mIQ

— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) July 18, 2021

Trump truly is a miserable waste of a human being. https://t.co/hBJFgAtIK2

— dawn (@DawnHulot) July 18, 2021

Another lie from the idiot. It's your coward Republicans who fail to take the vaccine and the ones dying in those red states. Everytime you open your big mouth your bone spur foot goes right in it. POS! https://t.co/2xG6ECscpx

— Raymond Mercier (@Raymond13455276) July 18, 2021

Fact: Pfizer wasn’t part of the “Operation Warp Speed.”

“We were never part of the Warp Speed. We have never taken any money from the U.S. government, or from anyone,” Kathrin Jansen, the company’s vice president for vaccine research, told the Times. https://t.co/F6paI7wRX6

— ☮️🌻@[email protected]🌻 (@SeekerofNoble) July 18, 2021

Trump just put out a statement saying people aren’t taking vaccines because they… don’t trust the election result. Which is kind of a classic inadvertent admission from him that vaccine hesitancy has little to do with science and everything to do with partisan politics.

— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) July 18, 2021

Disgraced, twice impeached, one term, insurrectionist, ex- President Trump blames President Biden for anti-vaxxers: “People are refusing to take the vaccine because they don’t trust his administration, they don’t trust the election results.” pic.twitter.com/xjLGDBwGPU

— Mike Sington (@MikeSington) July 18, 2021

Trump giving the base the exact message they want of being against the COVID vaccine because if the election was stolen, clearly you can't trust the Biden administration to administer the COVID vaccine that Trump himself is taking credit for creating.

Yeah, my head hurts too. pic.twitter.com/clNAnEqxZp

— The Darkest Timeline Numbersmuncher (@NumbersMuncher) July 18, 2021

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