Trump booed after telling supporters to take vaccine

Donald Trump speaks during a rally in Cullman, Alabama. Photo: Reuters
Donald Trump speaks during a rally in Cullman, Alabama. Photo: Reuters
Former US president Donald Trump is fully vaccinated against the novel coronavirus and encouraged his supporters to get inoculated too during a rally in Cullman, Alabama at the weekend.

Cullman is the county seat of Cullman County, which voted to re-elect Trump by an 88.1% to 10.7% margin.

"I believe totally in your freedoms, I do, you have to do what you have to do," Trump said to cheers from the crowd.

"But," he said as the crowd quieted, "I recommend take the vaccines, I did it, it's good, take the vaccines."

The crowd immediately lost some of its energy, and some boos could be heard. Trump apparently detected the lukewarm response, and went back to discussing freedoms.

"No, that's OK, that's alright," he said as some in the audience to continued to jeer.

"You've got your freedoms, but I happen to take the vaccine. If it doesn't work, you'll be the first to know, OK? I'll call up Alabama and say, 'Hey, you know what?' But it is working. But you do have your freedoms, you have to maintain that."

Public opinion polls have consistently shown strong vaccine resistance among Republicans.

An analysis of county vaccination data has shown that counties that voted for Joe Biden have higher vaccination rates than counties that voted for Trump, and the partisan divide has only grown over time.

Comments

Well said president Trump...You are right! The decision to take the vaccine is an individual choice.
In your view it's the right choice, but you respect those who do not wish to...Such a refreshing change from the guy in the White House who has FAILED to fix the virus, despite promising America he would.

By the way, tens of thousands of supporters at your rally...Joe Biden can only dream of those numbers!

What the media won't say is that Trump has said it is personal choice to take the "vaccine", when Trump first mentioned "vaccines" (Operation Warpspeed anyone), people were against them, when biden got in, suddenly people were all for them.......