Washington
A concerned Donald Trump on Friday said he wanted “to stop the world from killing itself”, as Western and Chinese companies compete with each other in a race over the coronavirus vaccine.
Trump, the outgoing Republican president who was toppled by Democrat Joe Biden, took to Twitter to express his concern for the world as it is today.
“I just want to stop the world from killing itself!,” he wrote. In a series of rapid-fire tweets, Trump took shots not only at Biden but the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and former US president Barack Obama as well.
Terming the FDA “a big, old, slow turtle”, he directed Commissioner Dr Stephen M. Hahn to “get the dam vaccines out NOW” and “stop playing games and start saving lives”.
“The Swine Flu (H1N1), and the attempt for a vaccine by the Obama Administration, with Joe Biden in charge, was a complete and total disaster,” the real estate tycoon-turned politician said.
“Now they want to come in and take over one of the ‘greatest and fastest medical miracles in modern day history.’ I don’t think so,” he said.
He did manage to acknowledge there is going to be a Biden administration, claiming it will be “a scandal plagued mess,” which is exactly what he has inflicted on America for the past four years. There is zero reason to think Biden will do the same, given the incredible wealth of talent and expertise he has already assembled. But everything with Trump is projection.
Trump tried to turn Hunter Biden’s announcement that his taxes are under investigation into vindication of his call to the president of Ukraine, a call that was unlawful.
But as Vox reports, the DOJ’s investigation “has focused on Hunter’s business dealings in China,” not Ukraine. “And Joe Biden ‘is not implicated,’ per CNN.”
Trump, who has washed his hands of the coronavirus pandemic entirely, is trying to steal all the credit for the vaccines – even though he refused to buy enough and now it appears Americans will have to wait months longer than we were told to get inoculated.
Trump literally called the vaccine “one of the ‘greatest and fastest medical miracles in modern day history.’” minutes after blasting the FDA for being “a big, old, slow turtle,” that’s “playing games,” and ordering the FDA chief to “Get the dam vaccines out NOW.”
Trump will go down in history as the worst president ever America has ever seen. He likely will face massive legal problems once he leaves office. There will be no “Trump 2024,” at least not for Donald Trump. And it will take at least until then for America to start recovering from this disaster.—AP
