Donald Trump's speech yesterday:
https://youtu.be/9kL9KiUNoZQ
transcript from 23:14
"When I left office, and we’re very proud of this because this was something that they said could not be done; the FDA said it, everybody said it, any article you read said it; it couldn’t be done, it would be years and years.
I handed the new administration what everyone is now calling a modern day medical miracle. Some say it’s the greatest thing to happen in hundreds of years, hundreds of years.
Two vaccines produced in record times, with others on the way, including the Johnson&Johnson vaccine that was approved just yesterday.
And therapeutic relief also, if you’re sick, if you’re sick we have things now that are incredible, what has taken place over the last year under our administration. It would’ve taken any other president at least five years and we got it done in nine months. Everyone says five years; five years.
Can you imagine if you had to go through what all of the countries of the world who are now getting the vaccine, or soon will be getting it, from various companies. But can you imagine if all of those countries had to go through what they’ve been going through over the last year, you’d lose hundreds of millions of people.
I pushed the FDA like they’ve never been pushed before. They told me that loud and clear. They have never been pushed like I pushed them. I didn’t like them at all. But once we got it done I said, I now love you very much.
What the Trump Administration has done with vaccines has in many respects perhaps saved large portions of the world. Not only our country, but large portions of the world.
Not only did we push the FDA far beyond what the bureaucrats wanted to do we also put up billions and billions of dollars, 10 billionto produce the vaccines before we knew they were going to work.
It was called a calculated bet or a calculated risk. We took a risk. Because if we didn’t do that you still wouldn’t have the vaccines, you wouldn’t have them for a long time. So think of that.We took this bet.We made a bet because we thought we were on a certain track.
But you’d be starting to make them right now; would be a long time before you ever saw them. It takes 60 to 100 days to manufacture and inspect new doses, and that means one hundred percent of the increased availability that we have right now was initiated by our administration; one hundred percent.
In fact the Director of National Institutes of Health, Francis Collins, he’s Fauci’s boss actually, I think he’s a Democrat too, by the way, said that our Operation Warp Speed was absolutely breathtaking and that the Trump administration deserves full credit. Which we do.
And as conservatives and Republicans, never forget that we did it. Never let them take the credit, because they don’t deserve the credit.They just follow, now, they’re following our plan. But this has been something that they really call, they call it a, an absolute miracle.
Joe Biden is only implementing the plan that we put in place. And if we had an honest media, which we don’t, they would say it loud and clear.By the time I left that magnificent house at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, almost 20 million Americans had already been vaccinated, 1.5 million doses were administered on my final day alone. One point five million in a day.
Yet Biden said just a few days ago, that when he got here, meaning the White House, there was no vaccine. He said there’s no vaccine. Oh good. Say it again, Joe.
Now I don’t think he said that, frankly, in a malicious way, I really don’t. I actually believe he said that because he didn’t really know what the hell was happening.
Never let them forget, this was us. We did this. And the distribution is moving along according to our plan. And it’s moving along really well. We had the military, what they’ve done, our generals, and all of the people what they’ve done is incredible, but remember, you know, we took care of a lot of people, including, I guess on December 21st, we took care of Joe Biden. Because he got his shot, he got his vaccine. He forgot. It shows you how unpainful that vaccine shot is, SO EVERYBODY GO GET YOUR SHOT
Donald J. Trump
February 28, 2021
CPAC Conference 2021, Orlando