Reporter Confronts Trump on Vaccine Bombshell in Oval Office — Gets Head-Scratching Response

President Donald Trump delivered a head-scratching response when a reporter confronted him in the Oval Office about the bombshell news that HHS is torpedoing a big chunk of vaccine research.

Vaccine super-skeptic and Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. dropped a bomb on Tuesday when he announced that his department is “winding down” 22 mRNA vaccine development programs, a move that stunned Trump’s own former Surgeon General Jerome Adams.

But when President Trump was confronted about the plans during a photo op in the Oval Office of the White House, he gave a wandering answer that simultaneously appeared to indicate that the decision isn’t final and also that the administration is moving “on to other things” but there’s also a meeting about it but the mRNA vaccine was amazing but it was “a long time ago” but they’re still “speaking about it,” and doing really well:

REPORTER: Sir, you were the driving force behind Operation Warp Speed, these mRNA vaccines that are the gold standard.

Now, your health secretary is pulling back all the funding for research. He’s saying that the risks outweigh the benefits, which puts him at odds with the entire medical community and with you.

What is going on?

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Yeah, research on what?

REPORTER: Into mRNA vaccines.

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Well, we’re going to look at that. We’re talking about it. And they’re doing a very good job.

And, you know, that is a pass.

With Operation Warp Speed was, whether you’re Republican or Democrat, considered one of the most incredible things ever done in this country. The efficiency, the way it was done, the distribution, everything about it has been amazing.

But, you, know, that was now a long time ago, and we’re on to other things.

But… We are speaking about it. We have meetings about it in, uh– tomorrow, actually. Tomorrow at 12 o’clock and we’ll determine.

We’re looking for other answers to other problems, to other sicknesses and diseases and I think we’re doing really well.

Watch above via the White House press pool.