MAGA Fans Boo Trump After He Reveals He Got Vax Booster

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Former President Donald Trump found himself on the receiving end of his supporters’ disapproval this weekend after revealing that he had recently received a booster vaccination shot against COVID-19.

Trump’s booster announcement came during Sunday’s final stop on the “History Tour” he co-headlined with disgraced former Fox News star Bill O’Reilly. The tour, which Trump had promised would bring “big crowds,” has so far been beset by middling attendance and empty seats.

At one point during the event, as reported by Newsweek, Trump bragged that the COVID-19 vaccines were developed by his administration under Operation Warp Speed. Calling the effort “historic,” the ex-president took personal credit for saving “tens of millions of lives” around the world.

“We should take credit for it, and you play right into their hands [when you doubt it],” he also lectured the crowd.

Vaccine hesitancy among Trump supporters has had a real-life impact, as data shows that counties that voted heavily for Trump in 2020 “have been nearly three times as likely to die from COVID-19 as those who live in areas that went for now-President Biden” since May 2021. This is almost entirely attributed to those counties’ low vaccination rates.

While boasting about his administration’s role in vaccine development, Trump simultaneously expressed his opposition to vaccine mandates, drawing cheers from the MAGA attendees. “If you don’t want to take it, you shouldn’t be forced to take it, no mandates,” he declared.

The cheers, however, suddenly turned to boos and jeers when both he and O’Reilly confirmed they were fully vaccinated and boosted.

“Don’t, don’t, don’t,” Trump immediately reacted, pointing to one side of the arena where the groans apparently emanated.

“That’s alright, it’s a very tiny group up there,” the twice-impeached former president then insisted.

Trump’s affirmation that he has received a booster shot comes just a few months after he bashed the need to get an additional vaccination jab.

One cannot always control the monsters they unleash, and he unleashed many.

f*****g morons.

"OMG, our savior is a socialist!! ! ! !"

--Trump supporters upon hearing this

"OMG, our savior is a socialist!! ! ! !"

--Trump supporters upon hearing this

I'm not sure that works, Trump downplayed the pandemic in the beginning because he was afraid the economic hit would damage his reelection bid, but he also went full speed on the vaccines and took credit for them, I don't think he can be fairly blamed for the anti vax mandate sentiment on the right. I think the "you can't make me" contingent would be pretty much the same with or without Trump, and as we've now seen on multiple occasions, he doesn't actually have any control of them on this.

Trump was consistently pushing a narrative under which no authority can be trusted, there is always a conspiracy lurking in the shadows, and facts are what you choose them to be. While I agree there would always have been antivaxers, it doesn’t surprise me that so many of his supporters went that route, despite his actual messaging on the particular topic. A distrustful mindset is the flame he fanned.