President Trump: “You’re Playing Right Into Their Hands” When You Doubt the Vaccine

President Trump reveals to Bill O'Reilly that he got the COVID vaccine booster.

Former President Donald Trump told an audience of his supporters they are “playing right into their hands” by expressing doubt about or not getting COVID-19 vaccines.

Trump made the remarks during a live event with former Fox News pundit Bill O’Reilly.

“We did something historic, we saved tens of millions of lives worldwide,” said Trump, before going on to credit the vaccine for preventing a repeat of the Spanish flu, which infected nearly a third of the world and killed as many as 100 million people.

The comparison is somewhat alarmist given that the Spanish flu had a 2.5% global mortality rate, which is substantially larger than COVID’s mortality rate of 0.05% (before the vaccine was available).

Despite Trump glorifying the vaccine, he made a point of saying that it shouldn’t be mandatory.

“If you don’t wanna take it, you shouldn’t be forced to take it, no mandates,” said Trump.

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