They revealed that Donald and Melania Trump were secretly vaccinated against the coronavirus before leaving the White House
Former United States President Donald Trump and his wife, Melania, were discreetly vaccinated against the coronavirus in January, while they were still in the White House, a source close to the former president revealed to various media outlets. The news came a day after the Republican appeared in public for the first time since he left power at a political conference in which he - also for the first time - he encouraged people to get vaccinated.
"President Trump and the first lady were vaccinated at the White House in January," a strong close to the former president said without further details, according to the AFP news agency. The news was also published by The New York Times, which noted that Trump's adviser who provided the information did not say whether the former president received the first and second injections of the vaccine in January or if the second was at another time. He also did not indicate whether he and his wife got the Moderna or the Pfizer vaccine.
The media noted that Trump did not apply the vaccine when he began the vaccination campaign as other senior officials did publicly, including then-Vice President Mike Pence. In addition, it should be noted that both he and Melania Trump contracted coronavirus at the end of September and the then head of state spent three days hospitalized due to the symptoms he suffered.
Unlike his successor, Joe Biden, who was vaccinated on television on December 21, Trump never said he had been inoculated. In fact, he expressed his skepticism about vaccines on several occasions and experts expressed concern about the effect that the doubts of the then president could have on the population.
Blocked on Twitter and other social media, Trump has kept a low profile since he left the White House on January 20, when he secluded himself in Florida. However, in his speech this Sunday at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC, in English), held in Orlando, Florida, the 74-year-old politician urged the population to get vaccinated in his first political act after leaving power. "Everyone should get vaccinated," Trump said, a statement that drew some relief because many of his supporters are skeptical about vaccines.
