Recently, Trump admitted to having received the booster shot for COVID-19, which is no surprise after he had to suffer through the disease once already, but his decision has not gone over well with his die-hard QAnon followers. The new information came recently at the last stop of Trump’s “History Tour” this Sunday.

When former Fox-News host Bill O’Reilly, who joined Trump on his mini-tour, asked Trump if he had received the booster shot, Trump confirmed that he had. Then, when a section of the crowd began to boo his answer, he replied to their negative reaction by saying, “Don’t, don’t, don’t.” The former president still did not stray too far from the core beliefs of his group, and said that he was opposed to any mandates for the vaccine.

Despite the reassurance that he was opposed to laws that required vaccination, a large portion of QAnon followers, who generally worship and revere Trump, were angry at the fact that he would promote the vaccine, which they believe is physically harmful. Newsweek brought to light many comments from followers who were upset enough to abandon Trump as their idol completely.

Many of QAnon’s most popular social media accounts and leaders, however, continued to support Trump, giving him the benefit of the doubt and trying to convince their large follower bases to do the same. One wrote a long post to his followers where he said, “We don’t always understand everything.”

In the same post, he also gave the reasoning for Trump’s decision by saying, “I believe the end will explain the middle.” A poll posted by the same account asked whether his followers would be more comfortable taking the vaccine now that Trump has taken it. Over 97% of those who voted said “no”.

Donald Trump admits on stage that he got a vaccine booster shot, but his Dallas audience then begins to boo him. Hope his supporters will listen—#Omicron is coming. #GetBoosted #vaccinate pic.twitter.com/Oq4QynKdjt

— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) December 20, 2021

From Newsweek:

Newsweek found several comments on Telegram from QAnon followers who had turned on Trump and were left frustrated by his comments while others who claimed to be unvaccinated proudly called themselves “pureblood.”

One major QAnon influencer with 58,800 followers attempted to reassure their followers and explain Trump’s comments to them.

In a Monday Telegram post: “We don’t always understand everything. I love President Trump. I disagree here. I think we may find out something about this soon imo [in my opinion] either way, think for yourself. You are in the right spot here. Just don’t cuss up a storm, we have so many twists and turns already.”

The influencer continued: “I believe the end will explain the middle. But, we are all to think for ourselves and most of you guys are still with me on this vax crap. If we are confused by Pres Trump’s comments, I’m sure Deep State is. Maybe he would be a danger to society arrested otherwise idk [I don’t know] but I’m gonna continue locally and here doing what we all must every day.”

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