Dangerously Ignorant Trump and RFK, Jr Reportedly to Ban Covid-19 Vaccine within Months

Conspiracy theorists Donald Trump and RFK Jr. are reportedly set to ban the Covid-19 vax within months.

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Donald Trump’s innate ability to meddle in things he doesn’t understand and fall for conspiracies over reality strikes again. This time, it’s with the Covid-19 vaccine. You see, he and brain-wormed weirdo Robert F Kennedy, Jr — neither of whom are medical experts! — have decided that the Covid-19 vaccine is dangerous, and so they are set to ban it within months, reportedly.

“The Trump administration will move to pull the COVID vaccine off the U.S. market “within months,” one of (Health and Human Services Secretary) Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s closest associates told the Daily Beast,” in an exclusive.

Yes, the same RFK, Jr who made headlines in May and June 2025 for touting the White House's "Make America Healthy Again" (MAHA) report, which was reportedly riddled with errors and fabrications.

The banning of the Covid-19 vaccine “idea” is based on the belief of a British cardiologist, who sees himself as smarter than everyone else in the medical field.

Dr. Aseem Malhotra believes the Covid-19 vax is more dangerous than the deadly virus, and this belief is allegedly “shared by ‘influential’ members of President Donald Trump’s family. Like Kennedy himself, no Trumps hold any scientific qualifications,” the Beast noted.

Malhotra is a leading adviser to the misnamed “Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Action” and he told the Beast that a decision to remove the vaccine “will come ‘within months,’ even if it is likely to cause ‘fear of chaos’ and bring with it major legal ramifications.”

Yes, that sounds exactly like most of Donald Trump’s policies: Bad for Americans, against the advice of experts, dangerous for the United States of America, and instilling fear and chaos.

Naturally, this decision is based on a 2022 preprint — a paper that had not faced peer review (but since has) — that experts accuse of misrepresenting the source material and cherry-picking the data.

Verdict detail:

Misrepresents source: The preprint compared the risk of serious adverse events with the risk of COVID-19 hospitalization. However, several of these events, such as rash and diarrhea, don’t typically require hospitalization. Claiming that the preprint showed COVID-19 vaccines are more likely to cause hospitalization than prevent it is inaccurate and misrepresents the analysis.
Cherry-picking: The list of serious adverse events assessed included hyperglycemia (high blood sugar), but excluded hypoglycemia (low blood sugar). It included gastrointestinal hemorrhage, but excluded duodenal ulcer hemorrhage (a subtype of gastrointestinal hemorrhage). No explanation was given for why these exclusions were made.

Science Feedback concluded, “Studies show that the benefits of COVID-19 vaccines outweigh their risks; preprint claiming to show otherwise is flawed.”

In June of 2025, the FDA added a class safety warnings for myocarditis and pericarditis to COVID-19 messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines’ prescribing information based on an estimated unadjusted incidence of myocarditis and/or pericarditis in approximately 1 in 37,000 in males aged 12 to 24 years for the 2023 to 2024.

However, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) notes that while inflammatory heart conditions are a very rare side effect of the vaccines in young males, “the risk of myocarditis from a COVID-19 infection is significantly higher than the risk from the vaccine.”

The vaccine is thought to have avoided “between 14 and 20 million deaths” :

Researchers have estimated that the first year of COVID-19 vaccination more than halved the number of deaths due to COVID-19 across the world. This is thought to have avoided between 14 and 20 million deaths.

The global lockdowns from the deadly Covid-19 pandemic were ceased by the successful development of a vaccine that contains “messenger RNA”, which is mRNA that instructs cells to make a harmless piece of the virus's spike protein. The mRNA COVID-19 vaccines are considered safe and highly effective at preventing severe illness, hospitalization, and death from COVID-19 and are based on technology that has been around for twenty years.

The Trump administration is so committed to bringing this country down to Russia’s level that it canceled approximately $500 million in federal funding for mRNA vaccine development against future viral threats, which experts warned could indirectly harm promising mRNA cancer research for pancreatic cancer, brain tumors and more.

"This may be the most dangerous public health judgment that I've seen in my 50 years in this business," Michael Osterholm, who runs the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, told NPR. "It is baseless, and we will pay a tremendous price in terms of illnesses and deaths. I'm extremely worried about it."

Naturally, the Trump administration talked out of both sides of its mouth, citing both the alleged dangers of the vaccine while saying they wouldn’t touch it when it comes to cancer. The lack of logic in this “thinking” is maddening. They’re pro-death from Covid, but not cancer?

“I think [Trump will] get it, because it’s in his interest to,” Malhotra is reported to have said by the Beast of his expected meeting with Trump in September. “This information is only going in one direction, and there’s something really terribly wrong with the system. I think once [he] understands the situation… that will encourage him to act to change the system. He’s in a position to fix it. He can create a lasting legacy by doing so.”

If we parse that statement, it’s just wild misdirection. Malhotra is fearmongering that the information is “only going in one direction” but he provides no evidence of this. We DO, however, have evidence of how things were without the vaccine.

But Malhotra is right about one thing: Trump can certainly contribute to his lasting legacy of being an attack on our liberty, medical privacy and access, economy and success as a nation by banning the Covid-19 vaccine.

Russian President Vladimir Putin could not have invented a more effective weapon against the United States than Donald Trump’s ignorance, conspiracy-addled “thinking” and criminal-minded approach to everything he undertakes.

If they do actually ban the vaccine (and let’s remember TACO specializes in backing down), Donald Trump and his grotesque entourage of Epstein-cover-up creeps will still have access to it. The elites will get all of the good stuff while everyone else is left to fend for themselves in a Hunger Games kind of hellscape if Trump has anything to say about it. This is just one more area where blue states will need to assert independence from this dangerously unsophisticated band of conspiratorialists.

Concern that this might actually happen is piqued by the White House denying it to the Beast. WH Spokesman Kush Desai said: “The Administration is relying on Gold Standard Science and is committed to radical transparency to make decisions that affect all Americans. Unless announced by the Administration, however, any discussion about HHS policy should be dismissed as baseless speculation.”

Ah, yes. Accusations of ‘baseless speculation’ coming from the administration of baseless accusations. This is right up there with Karoline Leavitt resentfully declaring on Fox News “President Trump knows what he’s doing” before he rolled out the red carpet for Putin for a meeting that did absolutely nothing except give Putin time alone with Trump during an unprecedented ride in the presidential limo as a gift to his Russian friend (who is hostile to the United States, to be clear).

This is a good time to call your blue state governors to support redistricting in response to Trump’s attempt to steal yet another election with demands for red states to find him x number of seats with extremist, mid-decade gerrymandering.

And by the way, Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) has already raised $6.2 million as of August 21 for his state’s “Election Rigging Response Act” in reaction to Texas Republicans’ radical redistricting at Trump’s order.

This is an ongoing battle, and they have not won yet.

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