https://www.newsweek.com/pathetic-geraldo-rivera-mocked-tv-anchors-suggesting-trump-name-covid-vaccine-1549270Fox News personality Geraldo Rivera's suggestion that the COVID-19 vaccine should be named 'The Trump' to honor President Donald Trump was met with immediate backlash from television anchors and on social media.
Rivera congratulated Trump on Friday after the president wrongly claimed full credit for Pfizer's announcement earlier this month of the more than 90% efficacy of its coronavirus vaccine. "As a result of Operation Warp Speed, Pfizer announced on Monday that its China virus vaccine was more than 90% effective," Trump said on November 14. "Pfizer said it wasn't part of Warp Speed, but that turned out to be an unfortunate misrepresentation."
Rivera called Trump the "prime architect of Operation Warp Speed" before offering an idea on Friday's Fox & Friends: Let's name the vaccine after the president.
"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?'" he said. "You know, make it like, 'Have you got your Trump yet?'"
