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Penultimate Amazing
Even if it was, so what? He acts like funding vaccine development during a pandemic was a brilliant idea that no other President would have thought of, and the money came out of his own pocket.
But then this is a man who thought switching on Fox News and hearing wild speculation about a possible treatment and then simply repeating it at a press conference, without investigating further let alone waiting for it to be tested, entitled him to the Nobel prize for medicine.
Amazing. He not only told off Pfizer and Cuomo, he also gave himself credit for the vaccine. When Salk had the polio vaccine breakthrough the president of the day didn't try to take credit for it.
From the New Yorker re President Eisenhower (considered one of US's great presidents) regarding Jonas Salk:
At a press conference that month (Ike met with the press almost every week), he was asked what role the federal government should play.
“I believe very greatly in the power that can be developed by the humanitarian agencies of this country when they work together in coöperation,” the President replied. “And if they have the direction which is to be given them through the Advisory Committee set up in [the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare], I believe that we will get the most rapid possible distribution of this vaccine.”
No party politics, no sideswipes at political opponents, no gloating at critics.