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Ivanka Trump Posts Covid-19 Vaccination Photo, Here Are Responses From QAnon Followers
After a rather lengthy absence from Twitter and other social media, Trump has returned.
No, not former U.S. President and current Mar-A-Lago resident Donald Trump. Rather it was the daughter of Donald and former “advisor to the President” Ivanka Trump who posted photos of herself along with the words, “today, I got the shot!!! I hope that you do too! Thank you Nurse Torres”:
No ALL CAPS. No “I’m your favorite such and such.” No slams on anyone else. Just what appeared to be a positive public health message encouraging Covid-19 vaccination during the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic.
Interestingly, Trump the Ivanka didn’t mention the name “Covid-19” in the tweet, choosing instead to use the generic term “shot.” This somewhat ambiguous term could have referred to any kind of vaccination or even a vodka shot or a basketball shot. Not mentioning “Covid-19” specifically may not seem like a significant omission. But throughout 2020, Trump the Donald often avoided using the real name “Covid-19” when referring to the disease and the virus and instead tried using his own names like the “China virus” or the “kung-flu.” Calling Covid-19 such things isn’t simply like calling Justin Bieber something like “the Biebs” or “the one I dream about while making smoothies.” A study published in the American Journal of Public Health found an association between use of the words “China virus” and anti-Asian sentiment on Twitter, which is not very nice to Asian Americans. All the while Ivanka Trump didn’t exactly make a significant effort to correct her father when he used such inflammatory names.
Nevertheless, some expressed hope that Trump the Ivanka’s vaccination would convince those who follow her and Trump the Donald to get the Covid-19 vaccine:
As our PHICOR team study published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine showed, it may be difficult to quell the pandemic in the U.S. this year without getting at least a majority of Americans vaccinated and over 70% of Americans protected against the virus. However, according to a recent NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist Poll, 49 percent of Republican men and 34 percent of Republican women said that they do not plan on getting vaccinated with 47 percent of Trump’s 2020 supporters indicating that they would refuse the Covid-19 vaccine. So the road “back to normal” in the U.S. may go through Trump supporters, so to speak.
The question, though, is how much sway does the Trump family really have over their supporters. Are Trump followers in actuality following Trump or has Trump been simply following, amplifying, and supporting what Trump followers already believed in prior to Trump’s running for and becoming President? In other words, who’s following whom? The following response to Ivanka Trump’s tweet, in the words of Maroon 5, may make you wonder:
And Tina Nguyen, a reporter for Politico, posted a scrolling compilation of “no”, “pass” and other similar responses to Trump the Ivanka’s Instagram post:
Meanwhile, take a wild guess as to how some QAnon followers responded to Ivanka Trump’s photo. The answer rhymes with “conspiracy World Series.” Yep, conspiracy theories. Arieh Kovler created some montages of some QAnon follower claims, including allegations that Trump the Ivanka was, drum roll, please, faking it: