{"id":50446,"date":"2021-08-18T17:31:10","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T00:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=50446"},"modified":"2021-08-20T09:06:07","modified_gmt":"2021-08-20T16:06:07","slug":"wtf-trump-tells-fox-news-that-booster-shots-are-a-money-making-operation-and-not-needed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=50446","title":{"rendered":"WTF? Trump Tells Fox News that Booster Shots Are a ‘Money Making Operation’ and Not Needed"},"content":{"rendered":"

It appears that having lost more than 600,000 Americans from the coronavirus still isn’t enough for Donald Trump and his Ministry of Disinformation (aka Fox News). Despite having known about the severity of the pandemic early on (but deliberately downplaying it<\/a><\/strong>), Trump is continuing to lead his glassy-eyed cult disciples astray with flagrant falsehoods about the current state of affairs.<\/p>\n

\"Donald<\/p>\n

Trump is on a media spree this week with two visits to Fox News, one to Newsmax, and he’s hosting another of his super-spreader cult rallies, this one in Alabama where the percentage of people vaccinated is the lowest in the nation. [Late additions: Joe Pags, Rick & Bubba]<\/p>\n

During his second Fox News “interview”<\/em> with shameless Trump-fluffer, Maria Bartiromo, Trump unleashed a torrent of lies related to his negligent and incompetent mismanagement of the pandemic and where things are going from here. What follows are a few excerpted – and poignantly annotated – highlights from the segment (video below)<\/em>:<\/p>\n

“I’ve taken the vaccine. I’m very, very proud of it.”<\/strong>
\nIf Trump is so proud, why has he refused to mount a public service campaign<\/a> to persuade his devotees (who comprise the bulk of the resistors<\/a>) to get vaccinated?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“When I was president, you didn’t have this problem with people not wanting to take it.”<\/strong>
\nFirst of all, the vaccine was not available until December 14, 2020, after Trump was voted out, and just a month before Joe Biden was inaugurated. As for people wanting the vaccine, it was a time when demand was strong from the majority of Americans who weren’t deceived by Trump and Fox News propaganda.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“They don’t take it because they don’t trust Biden.”<\/strong>
\nThat’s Trump’s psychotic projection kicking in. Any scarcity of trust was due to the deliberate anti-vax agitprop by Trump and Fox News.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“When I was president, you didn’t have people protesting the vaccine.”<\/strong>
\nAgain, the vaccine had only just become available. However, you had plenty of people protesting – sometimes violently – the existence of the virus and refusing to take simple steps to mitigate its spread, like wearing masks.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“When I left it was virtually gone. It was over.”<\/strong>
\nOh for chrissakes! The death rate was peaking in January of 2021. But Trump’s lies still seem to have much farther to go.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

[On the need for a booster]<\/em> “That sounds to me like a money-making operation from Pfizer. […] You wouldn’t think you would need a booster.”<\/strong>
\nBecause everything that a grifter like Trump does has to have greed as a motive, he thinks that’s true for everyone else.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

More troubling is Trump’s dismissal of the need for a booster shot that has been verified by actual scientists<\/a><\/strong>. Just as he has spent most of the last year and a half downplaying the tragic and deadly risks that people are facing, Trump still seems determined to kill off more Americans by convincing them that there isn’t any real threat and they don’t need need to take simple steps to insure the safety of themselves, their families, their communities, and their nation. And naturally, Bartiromo adoringly goes along with everything Trump says.<\/p>\n

Trump would rather let more people suffer and die so that he can blame it all on Biden and continue his fundraising pitches to enrich himself and finance his next insurrection and attempted coup. Ironically, the number of suckers available for him to exploit with this lethal scam will decline in corresponding proportion to the number deplorables he can swindle with his self-serving lies.<\/p>\n

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