@SEKA I see. That makes sense.
I tried to google and I’m not sure how to efficiently find where a reporter asks the president if he will take the vaccine. I read through some White House transcripts that came up and tried to search youtube. I heard it during a press conference, it was a question from the press.
I just skimmed two transcripts that came up when I googled and the President consistently promotes the vaccine. Here’s the two:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-vaccine-development/
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-press-briefing-september-16-2020/
The more recent one is when the media tried to say the president was disagreeing with the CDC when they testified, the president just says I think he misunderstood the question. Trump doesn’t try to make the CDC Director (is he the director I’m forgetting) look bad, just calmly said I think he misunderstood. The press won’t have it. In the end Trump was basically right about the timing and efficacy.
Trump says all sorts of things that make me angry and that I disagree with, but if we care about getting the population vaccinated let’s act like it and do whatever it takes, while still holding to the truth, to reassure people the vaccine is effective and safe. The truth is Trump has always promoted the hopes for the vaccine and spoken highly of the researchers at Pfizer and Moderna and JnJ for that matter.
I think a big problem is a lot of people just watch cable news or read an article, and don’t actually listen to press conferences in full. They just see or hear or watch an edited clip or quote. I’m not accusing you of that, and I don’t sit through every news conference myself, but I sit through a lot of them rather than hours of MSNBC, CNN, or Fox. It’s very different to actually watch the press conferences in full. I make the same argument about my governor DeSantis. The press basically helped to kill people in my state in my opinion.