Donald Trump, Dealmaker in Chief, Turned Down “Multiple” Offers to Buy More Pfizer Vaccine

On Tuesday, The Washington Post reported that Pfizer told the Trump administration that it would be unable to provide “substantial additional doses” of its vaccine until late June at the earliest because they’d already been allocated to other countries. But wait, you say, isn’t Pfizer an American company? And isn’t Trump’s entire schtick about fucking over other nations in a narrow-minded attempt to put the U.S. first? And now that we’re remembering it, didn’t the Trump administration basically try to bribe a German firm developing a vaccine in March to relocate its research to the U.S., in a move that was interpreted as Trump trying to ensure any “inoculation would be available first, and perhaps exclusively, in the United States”? And so wouldn’t he at least want to make sure America had enough doses of a highly promising vaccine to vaccinate as many people as possible as quickly as possible? And while the answer to all those questions is, of course, yes, such queries fail to take into account that despite claiming to be a genius businessman, Donald Trump is actually this country’s foremost moron:

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