One of the most common questions I get from readers is: why does President Trump support the vaccine?
Or a different variant: if the vaccine is so bad, why does President Trump support it?
They are great questions.
After all, prior to taking office in 2016, President Trump was very outspoken against vaccines, commonly citing their dangers.
The Tweets are now gone since Twitter deleted him, but here’s what he said in 2012:
And in 2014:
And even during one of his debates against Dr. Ben Carson.
From Vox:
Republican presidential hopefuls Donald Trump and Ben Carson dived into the question of whether vaccines cause autism in the Republican debate Republican debate Wednesday night.
Carson, a pediatric neurosurgeon, pointed out (correctly) that researchers have throughly discredited the notion.
Trump, meanwhile, persisted with his own version of the science. “You take this little beautiful baby,” he said, “and you pump — I mean, it looks just like it is meant for a horse, not for a child, and we had so many instances, people that work for me, just the other day, 2 years old, beautiful child went to have the vaccine and came back and a week later got a tremendous fever, got very, very sick, now is autistic.”
The claim that vaccine cause autism rose to popularity in 1998, when an esteemed medical journal published a paper with the now infamous conclusion: that the measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine — administered to millions of children across the globe each year — could cause autism.
Source: welovetrump.com
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