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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBrian Williams mocks Geraldo Rivera suggestion to name COVID-19 vaccine after Trump
MSNBC's Brian Williams poked fun Friday at Fox News personality Geraldo Riveras suggestion that the COVID-19 vaccine should be named after President Trump to honor him.
Brian Williams, mockingly:
"Its possible we just dont give the president enough credit for his FDR-like devotion to tackling this virus," Williams said sarcastically during his show, "The 11th Hour," on Friday night.
"His laserlike focus, his daily devotion, the sympathy hes forever expressing to the families of the quarter-million dead," Williams continued. "Even the way the president lectures us in that way to please wear a mask and stop the spread. Geraldo may be on to something."
Williams continued his monologue, mocking the success of Trumps various self-promotional side businesses, saying, What Trump Steaks did for the hungry, what Trump Water did for the thirsty in our nation, what Trump University did to lift up the uneducated in our country well, along comes Trump the vaccine. Possibilities, I think youll agree, are endless. That is our broadcast for this Friday night.
Geraldo Riveras comments come after Trump took credit for Pfizer's announcement that its COVID-19 vaccine trial was a success. Rivera commended the president's efforts, referring to Trump as the "prime architect of Operation Warp Speed," the federal government's program to develop and distribute a vaccine in record time.
"I had an idea ... with the world so divided and everyone telling me, 'He's gotta give up' and 'Time to leave' ... why not name the vaccine 'the Trump?'" Rivera said while on the air Friday. "You know, make it like 'Have you got your Trump yet?'"
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/527027-brian-williams-mocks-geraldo-rivera-suggestion-to-name-covid-19-vaccine-trump
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Brian Williams mocks Geraldo Rivera suggestion to name COVID-19 vaccine after Trump (Original Post)
left-of-center2012
Nov 2020
OP
That would be confusing. If someone asked me if I had "had my Trump", I would say ...
eppur_se_muova
Nov 2020
#5
bullimiami
(13,111 posts)1. how bout we name the disease after trump? the trump plague.
ShazzieB
(16,606 posts)2. THAT I could get behind!
100%!
captain queeg
(10,281 posts)4. Yes that would be more appropriate
Disaffected
(4,572 posts)3. Rivera should
Trump off.
eppur_se_muova
(36,315 posts)5. That would be confusing. If someone asked me if I had "had my Trump", I would say ...
"Yes, but Imodium AD took care of it."