Jen Psaki delivers brutal response when asked if Trump deserves credit for vaccine rollout

[JohnSJ]

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki on Thursday delivered a brutal response when asked about giving former President Donald Trump credit for the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines in the United States.

During her daily press briefing, Psaki was asked about comments made by Admiral Brett Giroir, the former assistant secretary at the Department of Health and Human Services, who argued recently that he and his colleagues in the Trump White House should be getting more praise for the work they did in planning the distribution of the vaccine.

"I don't think anyone deserves credit when half a million people in the country have died of this pandemic," Psaki replied bluntly. "What our focus is on, and what the president's focus is on when he came into office just over a month ago, was ensuring that we had enough vaccines -- we are going to have them now."

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-2650899180/

[Glorfindel]

1. And that's how it's done.

Hooray for Ms Psaki!

[Blue Owl]

2. Suck on that Donny you fat piece of shit

[calimary]

29. THIS!!!!!

Although that’s an insult to unaffiliated fat pieces of shit everywhere.

[Cha]

31. Yeah, it's the Traitor's fucking fault there's

so many Deaths.. bc he called it a "democrat hoax" for months & did everything possible to spread the Virus. so much so that it's known as "the trump Virus"!

Wanted to help his re-election chances.. it's on fucking TAPE. How'd that work out?

So they Get NOTHING!

[BobTheSubgenius]

46. It needs to be trumpeted loud and wide that it is the TRUMP VIRUS!

The left has lost many valuable months, during which they could have cemented that in people's heads. Not that a lot of them need more cement in their heads, but it's just an expression.

[Cha]

47. Agreed! I was calling it the "trump Virus"

while the whole Shit Show was going on.. as were many others.

But not enough!

[BobTheSubgenius]

58. And to you...

[underpants]

3. First ask for source. Second DESTROY

[SergeStorms]

4. You don't want to piss off a redhead.

They'll make you wish you'd never been born. I had one redheaded girlfriend in my entire life. I learned my lesson quickly.

[MiHale]

5. Serge...I married one...nt

[Twoflower]

25. Me too wouldn't change a thing.

[MiHale]

34. Absolutely!...nt

[SergeStorms]

48. Neither of you....

would dare cross your wife. With that red headed temper she might pull a Lorraine Bobbit on you.

Just kidding guys. I hope you're both blissfully happy and remain so. I just got tangled up with the wrong one, and I myself am a little contrary to ordinary, so we were wrong for each other. Every relationship is what the two people make of it.

[USALiberal]

51. Really? Classy! Nt

[SergeStorms]

53. Yeah...

Don't bother reading down-thread.

[NCDem47]

6. BUUUUUUURN

And rightfully delivered.

[dutch777]

7. I am surprised they got vaccine development and production moved forward but thank god

Probably because Bill Gates and others shamed them into it

[Chakaconcarne]

12. Either that or some deal-making went on.......

Difference is, if that happened, is the deal benefitted Americans and not the pResident and his family.

[dansolo]

49. Trump only wanted to be able to announce that the vaccine was available

It was all about the election. He couldn't care less about distributing the vaccine.

[mountain grammy]

8. She is excellent.

[Toorich]

9. She is a wonderment

"Brunettes are nice
and Blondes are fun
But it takes a redheaded woman
To get a dirty job done"
- Bruce Springsteen -

[Vinca]

10. Trump deserves credit for boosting sales at funeral parlors and crematoriums.

[onecaliberal]

19. THAT!

[Budi]

22. Well, didn't Ivanka get a patent on caskets?

May have been talk, but creepy forboding of things to come for America, in trump's world

[efhmc]

33. Snopes says a mix of truths and lies.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ivanka-trump-coffins-trademark/ "this trademark was granted in 2018, well before the COVID-19 pandemic occurred. Moreover, Ivanka Trump shuttered her business in July 2018 to focus on work for the White House and there is no evidence she is involved in manufacturing or selling coffins in China or elsewhere."

[Budi]

54. Thanks. Maybe should check refridgerator trucks & body bags next

(Just snarking here), but Thanks for doing the Snopes check on the casket pats.

Can't trust any of them 🤬

[efhmc]

57. Funny comment. They will always try to find a way to grift.

[WyattKansas]

11. Who wants to bet that if Donnie Dumbass was still around...

That the United States would still be on the same failure pace we were on before Biden was sworn in.

[WA-03 Democrat]

14. It would be much worse

If the military backed Trump rather than the constitution we would be in a dictatorship.

The purges of the others would have begun we would be second fiddle to Russia.

[TomDaisy]

13. who asked the question

[JohnSJ]

15. I would like to know that also. Here is the twitter which includes the excerpt video

Link to tweet

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[Duppers]

17. Good question.

I'll make sure to never read their publication.

[movingviolation]

16. I Love Jen!!!!!

She has one quick, and rightfully vicious, wit about her. Stick it in, twist it around, and snap it off.

[Ohioboy]

18. The only thing Trump gets credit for

is downplaying the virus and causing more death than if he had encouraged people to take it seriously sooner.

[rurallib]

20. I have been wondering when that question would be asked

"Shouldn't Trump get all the credit ?"

[onecaliberal]

21. Trump gets credit for failing to respond, lying to the American people and killing 500,000.

Almost the worst response on the planet.

[LiberalLovinLug]

23. That's "brutal"?

I'm still waiting for someone to make it clear that there are estimates out there that something like 40% of deaths could have been prevented if Trump had taken the pandemic seriously and lead from that premise, as other countries have done.

That is over 200,000 dead Americans. That didn't have to be. I wish someone in Biden's team would bring that up when asked questions like that. I want someone to say, "if someone has died that you know, a relative or friend, from COVID this past year, they could still be here if it wasn't for Trump, if they were part of that 40%"

Trump basically murdered over 200,000 Americans through political cowardice, indifference, and incompetence. And I do not hear him being called out for that one bit.

[MontanaMama]

24. #Psaki Bomb.

She keeps telling it like it is. So refreshing.

[LymphocyteLover]

26. BOOM!!!!!

[Botany]

27. Psaki, "Which ones are we following?" Then a little smile.

Then a Psaki bomb.

[kcr]

56. That was my favorite part

Love her.

[monkeyman1]

28. he should get something !

made # 1.6 billion while in white house for his scam job . spent millions on his golf courses . spent millions on rally's. got best medical care on the hoax ! put the Republican party at bottom of the pickle barrel . managed to get people in jail . got the White house tore up & people killed. that's quite a accomplishment for a 1 term presidential & business man . well, people should learn from this, but I don't think they will. got a lot of jack-ass left over's that need to go !

[Cha]

30. EXCELLENT Response! TY

[Roc2020]

32. Yes! it is what it is

Trump!

[Kingofalldems]

35. Was it from OANN?

[monkeyman1]

36. NO !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11

[Kingofalldems]

40. Why are you screaming?

[Martin68]

37. Y&U

[spanone]

38. Thank you Jen

?️

[KY_EnviroGuy]

39. I think the medical profession and industry did that mostly own their own.

The need for the product was quite obvious and there is lots of money to be made for all.

If anyone deserves credit, it's the medical scientists whose desire to quench an international pandemic drove most of the work with the support of the universities and corporations that funded them.

I'm sure the CDC and NIH deserve a lot of credit and praise as well for their supportive work.

KY

[Stinky The Clown]

41. This . . . . . . . is how a professional dismisses right wing bullshit

[William Seger]

42. Deserves credit? He deserves jail

Does he think nobody remembers the second week of the rollout when there were millions of doses sitting on loading docks because nobody told them where to send them?

[Ferrets are Cool]

43. Damn, she is quick

and smart!!!

[lpbk2713]

44. This is the asshole who suggested drinking bleach.

He doesn't deserve credit for anything.

[Caliman73]

45. Yes, that was a beautiful response.

The reporter set it up, maybe to get a sound byte of Psaki attacking Trump, but she parried wonderfully. She is 100% correct. NO ONE deserves any credit on the handling. There is still work to be done. Not only does the quote highlight that HALF A MILLION Americans are dead, but also, in light of what Republicans are doing in the Senate, and in states like Texas and Mississippi, the work that continues and who is actually doing the work.


If you look at the countries that "deserve credit", the deaths they suffered are akin to a flu season, maybe a bad flue season. There is no way in hell that we have lost HALF A MILLION people, except for the incompetence and malice in the GOP handling of the pandemic.

[samnsara]

50. well done Jen, well done!

[NewJeffCT]

52. the vaccine rollout was horrible

it's been a complete turnaround since Biden's team took over and now the rollout is in much better shape.

[Deminpenn]

55. There were plenty of career civil servants and military who

worked very hard to make the vaccine rollout as good as it could possibly be. To me, this kind of response is a real insult to the hard-working and competent federal workforce, the ones in the weeds doing the real work of making government run. The ones who are still on the job today, doing the same yeoman work.