‘All The Therapeutics’: Trump Defends His Covid Record But Dodges On Taking Credit For the Vaccines

Former President Donald Trump defended his record as president during the Covid-19 pandemic, boasting his administration did “a lot to fix it,” but dodged on taking credit for helping create the vaccines – as he has done in the past.

“We got hit with Covid. We did a lot to fix it. I gave him an unbelievable situation with all of the therapeutics and all of the things that we came up with. We gave him something great,” Trump said regarding Covid, adding:

Remember, more people died under his administration, even though we had largely fixed it. More people died under his administration than our administration, and we were right in the middle of it, something which a lot of people don’t like to talk about. But he had far more people dying in his administration. He did the mandate, which is a disaster, mandating it. The vaccine went out.

He did a mandate of the vaccine, which is the thing that people most objected to about the vaccine. And he did a very poor job, just a very poor job. And I will tell you, not only poor there, but throughout the entire world were no longer respected as a country. They don’t respect our leadership. They don’t respect the United States anymore. We’re like a third world nation.

Between weaponization of his election, trying to go after his political opponent, all of the things he’s done, we’ve become like a third world nation. And it’s a shame the damage he’s done to our country. And I’d love to ask him and Will why he allowed millions of people to come in here from prisons, jails and mental institutions to come into our country and destroy our country?

In the past Trump had taken credit for “Operation Warp Speed” during his administration, which fast-tracked the Covid-19 vaccines to the public. In January of 2023, Trump told a vaccine-skeptical radio host, “Some people say I saved 100 million lives worldwide, but I was able to get that done in nine months versus five years to twelve years if it ever got [done at all]. I got the FDA to do things that they it it was pretty amazing what we were able to do.”

Watch the clip above via CNN.