Donald Trump Booed at Alabama Rally After Encouraging Crowd to Get COVID-19 Vaccine

Newsweek – by Christina Zhao

Former President Donald Trump was booed by his own supporters during a rally in Cullman, Alabama Saturday night after he encouraged the crowd to get vaccinated against COVID-19.

“I believe totally in your freedoms, I do, you gotta do what you gotta do, but I recommend take the vaccines. I did it. It’s good,” he said, drawing boos from the crowd of supporters.

“That’s okay, that’s alright,” Trump continued, brushing off the disapproval. “But I happen to take the vaccine. If it doesn’t work, you’ll be the first to know. But it is working. You do have your freedoms, you have to maintain that.”

A growing number of Republican leaders have urged voters to get the coronavirus vaccine as the highly contagious Delta variant sweeps through most parts of the U.S., driving up cases, deaths and hospitalizations in a new phase of the pandemic.

“These shots need to get in everybody’s arm as rapidly as possible, or we’re going to be back in a situation in the fall that we don’t yearn for, that we went through last year,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said late July. “Ignore all of these other voices that are giving demonstrably bad advice.”

The new messaging marks a notable shift from the anti-COVID-19 lockdowns, masks and vaccine sentiment that has gripped much of the Republican Party since the start of the pandemic.

Before the proliferation of the Delta variant—which now accounts for about 95 percent of the nation’s cases—Republican skepticism of COVID-19 vaccines and the Biden administration’s rollout grew so loud that some polls found almost 50 percent of GOP voters were unlikely to get vaccinated.

But even as top Republicans joined the Biden administration in pushing the vaccine, other members of the GOP have continued to ignore or spread misinformation about its safety and efficacy.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia was suspended from Twitter again earlier this month for spreading misinformation about the vaccine. Rep. Barry Moore of Alabama falsely claimed the vaccine was “untested” Saturday, after testing positive for COVID-19 a day earlier.

Conservative personalities, including Fox News hosts, have widened the Red/Blue divide in vaccination rates by extending a platform to vaccine skeptics and criticizing vaccination mandates ordered by businesses as an infringement on individual freedoms.

Most COVID-19 deaths in the country are now among unvaccinated people. So far, 170,406,785 Americans—or 51.3 percent of the total population—have received both doses of the vaccine and 200,947,556 have received at least one dose, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-booed-alabama-rally-after-encouraging-crowd-get-covid-19-vaccine-1621811

12 thoughts on “Donald Trump Booed at Alabama Rally After Encouraging Crowd to Get COVID-19 Vaccine

  1. If anything this obvious billionaire traitor who told u he’ll give you due process later (a hanging offense) took a placebo shot as would have all of these elitist maggots!

    Trump, your Corporate Government Savior…!

    Be damned the bill of rights at all costs !!!

    1. I agree the criminal psycho elites DO get the placebo shot, with one or two less elitist exceptions “to prove the rule” so to speak, but a number of their celebrity minions who are sick or dead whatever have gotten the actual “vaccine,” again, to “prove the rule” (and maybe because some of these celebs like Eric Clapton or the late DMX, went against the narrative). But yes, the “vaccine” is just for us “useless eaters”….even though the most useless eaters on this planet are the criminal psycho elites!

  2. So much for their one and only savior. Time the people start realizing the need to stand up for themselves because no one is coming to save them other than the God above or the people themselves.

  3. what a loser. anyone who still thinks don the con grifter care about the usa. needs a deprogramming clinic. asap

  4. How bout Trump / Biden on the next ticket. even though they are both dead. This is not reality…. Who can restore the Bill of Rights and the Common Law of We the People…. Only true Americans that know we have these rights and are willing to die fo it!! Sad but true we got to this point because our father grandfather greatgrandfather did not have the balls to stop this….

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