Coronavirus: anger in Germany at report Trump seeking exclusive vaccine deal

[Hearthrob]

MPs and ministers criticise display of ‘self-interest’ and accuse US president of electioneering

German ministers have reacted angrily following reports US president Donald Trump offered a German medical company “large sums of money” for exclusive rights to a Covid-19 vaccine.

“Germany is not for sale,” economy minister Peter Altmaier told broadcaster ARD, reacting to a front page report in Welt am Sonntag newspaper headlined “Trump vs Berlin”.

The newspaper reported Trump offered $1bn to Tübingen-based biopharmaceutical company CureVac to secure the vaccine “only for the United States”.

The German government was reportedly offering its own financial incentives for the vaccine to stay in the country.

The report prompted fury in Berlin. “German researchers are taking a leading role in developing medication and vaccines as part of global cooperation networks,” foreign minister Heiko Maas told the Funke Mediengruppe research network. “We cannot allow a situation where others want to exclusively acquire the results of their research,” said Maas, of the centre-left SPD.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/16/not-for-sale-anger-in-germany-at-report-trump-seeking-exclusive-coronavirus-vaccine-deal

[tanyev]

3. He doesn't care one bit.

He's just picturing the press conference where he gets to announce his 'amazing' deal and how much the stock market and his approval ratings will go up afterward.

[COLGATE4]

13. Actually, he means "working together for the

greater good of all billionaires".

[malaise]

10. WHen I think of the role the US played in eradicating small pox and polio

I weep. Don the Con is a fucking monster.

[Frustratedlady]

2. This vile and ugly reptile is really showing his colors and it is embarrassing. We are the world.

How can he even begin to think that the U.S. deserves exclusive rights to the coronavirus vaccine? Of all the asinine ideas he has come up with, this is the worst.

He should be humiliated to the nth degree.

[N_E_1 for Tennis]

5. using whose money?...

If it’s from our taxpayers dollars wouldn’t those rights belong to the American citizens?

This man is the definition of any negative word or expression ever thought or uttered.

[no_hypocrisy]

6. Food for the thought:

1. Trump might have succeeded if he hadn't got caught.
2. If he got the exclusive rights to the vaccine, you KNOW that only the 1% would get it, not the entire country.
3. Good chance that Trump would have used taxpayer money to "purchase" the exclusive rights and then "sold" it to one of his Mar-A-Lago cronies for private distribution.

[malaise]

11. He would never have succeeded with this

The German government is part of this research

[Bernardo de La Paz]

7. Why *exclusive*? 1) Profit for 1%, 2) Exclude from blue states. . . . nt

[Bc804]

8. Drumpf is repulsive

But didn't the story say German government was offering it's own monetary incintives to keep the vaccine for Germany?

[stopwastingmymoney]

9. I'm trying to figure out

WHEN exactly he did this and what he was saying to the public at the time.

Has anyone seen this info with a good source?

[malaise]

12. There was confirmation on other threads and The Guardian

is one of the most reputable sources on the planet

[stopwastingmymoney]

15. Here's the guardian article

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/mar/15/trump-offers-large-sums-for-exclusive-access-to-coronavirus-vaccine

It’s not definitive as to dates but early in March sometime, hmmm

[malaise]

16. The UN Security Council should condemn this

PERIOD

[Blue_Tires]

14. Trump is always running some kind of hustle...

[dalton99a]

17. Kick

[ProfessorGAC]

18. Some Questions On This Escapade

Isn't it likely that some of the $ for this research is public granted by the German government? I
f so, wouldn't it likely be illegal for a German research firm to sell exclusive rights?
Could that be the reason it got outed so quickly? A "whistleblower" in Germany who knew it was illegal?

[malaise]

19. Correct

A German Social Democratic politician pointed this out

[pattyloutwo]

20. So sick, really an ill human being