President Donald Trump speaks with Senior Advisor to the President Jared Kushner following the G20 Women’s Empowerment Event in Osaka, Japan. (Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead)
Americans are lining up to complain that President Donald Trump and his team should be among the last, not the first, to get the vaccine for the coronavirus.
Trump spent months downplaying the virus, saying that it was a hoax and about as serious as "the flu" despite telling reporter Bob Woodward that it was very serious. Now, while Trump's staff is spending December partying on the taxpayer dime and spreading COVID-19 even further, they are also the first to score the vaccine.
To make matters worse, the United States is nearing 300,000 deaths from the virus as numbers continue to climb higher each day. The lack of action or responsibility led many to ask how they deserve to be the first, particularly at a time when health care officials are putting their lives on the line daily.
See the frustration from folks in the tweets below:
LET ME GET THIS STRAIGHT... The very people who said Covid-19 was a hoax and who’s negligence killed over 300,000… https://t.co/gFeVcbg0fC— Kirk Acevedo🇺🇸 (@Kirk Acevedo🇺🇸) 1607901201.0
The White House: COVID is a hoax and masks don't work, but also give us the vaccine right fucking now! https://t.co/9FvwikZi4w— Dan Pfeiffer (@Dan Pfeiffer) 1607895976.0
The vaccine requires a second dose, 21 to 28 days after the first. With 37 days left until they leave their jobs, t… https://t.co/rK2VxudTZM— George Conway (@George Conway) 1607896694.0
Isn’t it rich. After months of minimizing Covid, holding super-spreader events, reckless behavior, endangering myri… https://t.co/eVrHgI4PFl— Ana Navarro-Cárdenas (@Ana Navarro-Cárdenas) 1607906599.0
Giving the White House staff the first doses of the Covid vaccine is like giving the Titanic crew the first lifeboat. @realDonaldTrump— NoelCaslerComedy (@NoelCaslerComedy) 1607897560.0
Please don’t waste vaccines on the trump White House, they’ve done nothing for society or the greater good.— Molly Jong-Fast🏡 (@Molly Jong-Fast🏡) 1607898399.0
Trumpism: The virus is a Dem hoax! Trump gets credit for vaccine! No way we’re taking the vaccine! White House gets vaccine first!— George Takei (@George Takei) 1607904174.0
White House staff gets early vaccine? I’m so mad I could spit. What about you?https://t.co/8fwHJn8oZT— Chip Franklin InsideTheBeltway.com (@Chip Franklin InsideTheBeltway.com) 1607900894.0
In February, White House was calling virus a hoax. Now, they break to front of line to get vaccine— Daniel Uhlfelder (@Daniel Uhlfelder) 1607898595.0
So the White House staff who work with Trump will be first to receive the vaccine. Fuck this administration.— Alex Cole (@Alex Cole) 1607898049.0
Why is the White House getting vaccines for COVID which they said is a hoax, not worse than the flu, and will disappear by last spring?— Wajahat "Wears a Mask Because of a Pandemic" Ali (@Wajahat "Wears a Mask Because of a Pandemic" Ali) 1607897809.0
After helping to super-spread the rona all over, the White House staff should be dead LAST, not first, on the list of vaccine recipients.— BrooklynDad_Defiant! (@BrooklynDad_Defiant!) 1607904039.0
The current White House should be last in line to get vaccines not first— Daniel Uhlfelder (@Daniel Uhlfelder) 1607899957.0
I see @IvankaTrump deleted a tweet about White House staff receiving the vaccine. It must have been awful; she is g… https://t.co/KhAzNdpSHf— Paulette Feeney (@Paulette Feeney) 1607902490.0
@realDonaldTrump @PressSec @WhiteHouse I thought Covid19 is a hoax, not real, made up by the dems, not harmful!!! S… https://t.co/89ZHPetTTG— . (@.) 1607907101.0
It is absolute bs that the White House and their staffers are getting the COVID vaccine first. They have been lying… https://t.co/qA34PfrBSX— Timothy Issler (@Timothy Issler) 1607907168.0
Every health care worker (and support staff to them) and every member of their immediate families should get a COVI… https://t.co/jLzC9YXEoH— Dr FOTH (@Dr FOTH) 1607907146.0
NOPE, there is plenty good equipment to sanitize the white house and capitol hill, dont waste a drop of vaccine on those monsters.— DR Wear A Fukkkin Mask (@DR Wear A Fukkkin Mask) 1607907183.0
White House staffers getting vaccines first after pretending the virus doesn’t exist, and letting the entire countr… https://t.co/qXPDXUJYnS— Joshua Potash (@Joshua Potash) 1607896362.0
