Trump Demands Credit For COVID Vaccine In Childish Official Statement

Although we may not have to hear from former President Donald Trump quite as often anymore, between the Twitter ban and the whole “losing the presidency in a massive defeat” situation, he’s still out there. And every once in a while, he does rear up and say something that spreads across social media even without his explicit presence. 

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And his statements are just as ridiculous as ever.

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On Wednesday, he released something that sounds very much like one of the unhinged 3 am tweets that always made Americans wonder why nobody took away Trump’s phone—similar wording, just on his official 45th President of the United States letterhead.

“I hope everyone remembers when they’re getting the COVID-19 (often referred to as the China Virus) Vaccine, that if I wasn’t President, you wouldn’t be getting that beautiful “shot” for 5 years, at best, and probably wouldn’t be getting it all,” he wrote. “I hope everyone remembers!”

It feels almost fruitless to point out the lies in everything Trump says at this point, as everything he says is constantly filled with lies.

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But claiming that Americans wouldn’t have received a vaccine for five years if anyone else had been president is pure fantasy, with not even a smidge of evidence to suggest that might be the case.

What’s also true is that Trump’s coronavirus response was disastrous and likely resulted in the deaths of many Americans who would have survived had we had a competent leader who took the virus seriously instead of spending months playing it down in the hopes it wouldn’t affect his campaign for reelection.

As usual, people were incredulous that this guy was really our president, and really says inane and moronic stuff like this.

It’s so perfect that what was once a silly joke – taking Trump tweets and putting them on official letterheads like a presidential statement – is now literally the actual way that Trump tweets https://t.co/tzpQGKPmRQ

— Tom Gara (@tomgara) March 10, 2021

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The repetition of “I hope everyone remembers” is incredible poetic construction. It’s too bad he’s going to die before we have the technology to do a deep scan of his neurological processes

— Brooks Otterlake (@i_zzzzzz) March 11, 2021

Many many. Everybody is saying it.

— Dsquared23 (@nvdbd1) March 10, 2021

I would like to point out that this memo was created by a 74yr old adult…and not a 12 yr old junior high student https://t.co/BrRIwhCr5z

— Jason Caviness (@JasonCaviness1) March 11, 2021

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I read the Trump statement and I refuse to tweet it but no wonder our collective anxiety was through the roof for four years.

— Washington Post TikTok Guy (@davejorgenson) March 11, 2021

But mostly, people just wanted to know why anyone is continuing to share anything Trump says on social media. He’s not the president, he’s banned from Twitter, and we don’t have to listen to him anymore. 

Pro tip for the media: when Trump releases yet another asinine lie-filled pointless statement, you don’t have to tweet the statement. He was banned from Twitter for a reason.

— Palmer Report (@PalmerReport) March 11, 2021

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Been saying this since he was 1st elected. If people had only refused to give his tweets the attn he wanted

Still begging for this for his Republican minions — LB, MTG, MH, JJ, MC. They need to be ignored — no replies, RTs, quotes, hashtags. Pretend they don’t exist on Twitter

— Jackie S (@KaysGramma) March 11, 2021

I am… confused… yeah, let’s go with “confused”… as to why politics reporters are tweeting screenshots of Trump’s statement. It’s literally a tweet in a different format. Are y’all really as dumb as he always says you are? Guess so.

— Saeed Jones (@theferocity) March 11, 2021

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The worst thing we could ever do to Trump is to simply ignore him. Hopefully one day we will.

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*First Published: March 11, 2021, 6:39 am