President Donald Trump praised his administration's handling of the Covid-19 pandemic and highlighted Operation Warp Speed as enabling rapid creation and rollout of a Covid vaccine. He cited his economic record and said the administration "never got the credit" for its pandemic response. Operation Warp Speed received praise from varied figures and was described as operating like a military procedure. Parts of Trump's political base have grown increasingly opposed to Covid-19 vaccines, with movements such as Make America Healthy Again pushing against mandates. HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. moved to restrict vaccines and his department canceled nearly $500 million in mRNA vaccine contracts and revoked a $600 million Moderna deal.
President Donald Trump praised his administration's handling of the Covid-19 pandemic on Tuesday, touting Operation Warp Speed the government program that facilitated the creation and rollout of a Covid vaccine in a historically short timeframe. Trump, speaking at length to the press during a cabinet meeting, was midway through extolling his first-term economic record when he broached the topic of the pandemic.
I had the greatest economy in the history of our country, my first four years despite covid, which was a very unfortunate situation for the whole world, said the president. We did a great job with it, never got the credit for the job we did. He continued, lauding the government operation behind the accelerated formulation, production, and distribution of vaccines to millions of Americans.
Operation Warp Speed, people say, is one of the greatest achievements ever in politics or in the military because it was almost a military procedure, said Trump. But everybody, including [Vladimir] Putin, said that Operation Warp Speed, what you did with that, nobody can believe it and we did a great job.
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