‘He means the snake-oil’: Trump leaves people fuming with anger as he boasts about his work during pandemic

Donald Trump and Joe Biden faced each other during their first presidential debate of 2024 on June 27
Republican presidential candidate and former president Donald Trump participated in the CNN Presidential Debate at CNN Studios in Atlanta, Georgia, on June 27, 2024 (Getty Images)
Republican presidential candidate and former president Donald Trump participated in the CNN Presidential Debate at CNN Studios in Atlanta, Georgia, on June 27, 2024 (Getty Images)

ATLANTA, GEORGIA: On Thursday, June 27, Donald Trump and Joe Biden faced off in their first presidential debate of the 2024 election.

During the debate, which is over now, the Republican leader spoke highly of his response to the COVID-19 pandemic that hit the US, like the rest of the world, in 2020, as reported by Mediaite.

U.S. President Joe Biden (R) and Republican presidential candidate, former U.S. President Donald Trump participate in the CNN Presidential Debate at the CNN Studios on June 27, 2024 in Atlanta, Georgia. President Biden and former President Trump are facing off in the first presidential debate of the 2024 campaign. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
Donald Trump and Joe Biden faced off in their first presidential debate of the 2024 election (Getty Images)

Trump slams Joe Biden's Covid-19 response

Trump said, “We got hit with Covid. We did a lot to fix it.”

“I gave him an unbelievable situation with all of the therapeutics and all of the things that we came up with, we – we gave him something great,” Trump said while referring to Biden. 



 

The 45th President further stated, “Remember, more people died under his administration, even though we had largely fixed it. More people died under his administration than our administration, and we were right in the middle of it."

“Something which a lot of people don’t like to talk about, but he had far more people dying in his administration. He did the mandate, which is a disaster, mandating it. The vaccine went out,” he added.

U.S. President Joe Biden participates in the CNN Presidential Debate at the CNN Studios on June 27, 2024 in Atlanta, Georgia. President Biden and Republican presidential candidate, former U.S. President Donald Trump are facing off in the first presidential debate of the 2024 campaign. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
Trump criticized President Joe Biden's handling of the Covid-19 pandemic (Getty Images)

“He did a mandate on the vaccine, which is the thing that people most objected to about the vaccine. And he did a very poor job, just a very poor job,” Trump claimed.

Trump claims US has ‘become like a Third World nation’ under Biden administration

The 78-year-old former President Donald Trump also asserted that the United States had lost respect under the Biden administration, stating, "They no longer respect our leadership or the United States."

“We’re like a Third World nation between weaponization of his election, trying to go after his political opponent. All of the things he’s done. We’ve become like a Third World nation, and it’s a shame,” Trump added.

Earlier, Trump had praised himself for "Operation Warp Speed," an initiative aimed at accelerating the production and distribution of Covid-19 vaccines.

In early 2023, he mentioned, “I was able to get something approved that, you know, that has proven to have saved a lot of lives. Some people say that I saved 100 million lives worldwide, but I was able to get that done in nine months versus five years to twelve years if it ever got [done at all].”

WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 27: Republican presidential candidate, former President Donald Trump (L) looks at U.S. President Joe Biden during the CNN Presidential Debate at the CNN Studios on June 27, 2024 in Atlanta, Georgia. The debate is the first of two scheduled between the two candidates before the November election. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
Donald Trump also asserted that the United States had lost respect under the Biden administration (Getty Images)

"I got the FDA to do things that they said couldn't be done. It was pretty amazing what we were able to accomplish," he noted.

Internet criticizes Trump's debate performance and pandemic response

Meanwhile, people have slammed Trump after the debate as a person below the Mediaite article wrote, “Trump's vilification of public health killed hundreds of thousands of Americans. He should never be in any position of leadership.”

Another person commented, “Trump's cognitive dissonance is a absolutely delicious.” [sic]

“He means the snake-oil,” one more user said.

A person stated, “You mean the record of killing tens of millions of citizens.”

“Two reasons: the highest death rate from covid, ever, was in January 2021, while Trump was president. A lot of people died the next couple months, but were infected while Trump was president. Second: A lot of idiot antivaxxers died later because they listened to Trump instead of Biden,” another user added. [sic]

This article contains remarks made on the Internet by individual people and organizations. MEAWW cannot confirm them independently and does not support claims or opinions being made online.

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