Yahoo Finance Ivanka Trump causes MAGA meltdown after sharing photograph getting vaccine
Ivanka Trump posts photos of her coronavirus vaccination on social media
(Ivanka Trump/Instagram)Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka Trump took to Twitter to announce that she got the Covid-19 shot and encouraged others to do the same, a move that has caused a meltdown among anti-vaxxers and conservative supporters of the former president.
The former first daughter broke her three months of social media silence on Wednesday posting a photo of her taking the coronavirus vaccine injection, with the accompanying note: “Today, I got the shot!!! I hope that you do too! Thank you Nurse Torres!!!”
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Ms Trump’s enthusiastic tweet about the coronavirus vaccine met with several angry responses from Trump supporters who called it a disappointment and accused her of “virtue signalling.”
“@IvankaTrump posted herself getting vaccinated on Instagram & encouraged others to do so. The comments are astonishing,” journalist Stephanie Ruhle tweeted, mentioning some of the responses on her tweet.
One user wrote: “HARD NO - PASS - HELL NO - WHY? - THAT IS DISAPPOINTING - DON’T NEED, I HAVE AN IMMUNE SYSTEM - DISAPPOINTED IN YOU - HOPE IT WAS A PLACEBO - LMAO”
. @IvankaTrump posted herself getting vaccinated on instagram & encouraged others to do so.
The comments are astonishing:
- HARD NO
- PASS
- HELL NO
- WHY?
- THAT IS DISAPPOINTING
- DON’T NEED, I HAVE AN IMMUNE SYSTEM
- DISAPPOINTED IN YOU
- HOPE IT WAS A PLACEBO
- LMAO— Stephanie Ruhle (@SRuhle) April 14, 2021
“And, Trump supporters are duped again. The Trump family has no idea what belief they stand behind,” tweeted a user named Gail Helen.
And, Trump supporters are duped again. The Trump family has no idea what belief they stand behind.
— Gail Helen🇺🇸 (@GailHelene6) April 15, 2021
Several users on Instagram also commented saying they don’t want to be a “lab rat“, hitting out at Ms Trump for promoting the coronavirus vaccine.
“No thanks! With a 99% survival rate, I shall pass. With Bill Gates involved I will not get one,” said a user Rice448. “Hell no. Why would you post this?” asked kenny_vv. “Nope not putting that in my body,” said call_me_g95.
“Bummer. I was hoping you were above this kind of virtue signalling,” a user called rmgvd commented. “Wow that’s extremely disappointing, but honestly I’m not surprised,” said heather_15la.
“Nope and please stop trying to manipulate us into doing so. It’s surprising to see you doing this now like the left and Hollywood have been,” said a user called the__real__american.
Some users also pointed out her delay in supporting vaccines. “You could have told people that covid wasn’t a ‘dem hoax.’ You could have told people Covid wasn’t going to ‘disappear like a miracle,’ or with the ‘warmer weather’,” user Jo wrote.
“You could’ve helped stop hundreds of thousands of American deaths but you didn’t. You didn’t. So you’re too late.”
You could have told people that covid wasn’t a “dem hoax”.
You could have told people Covid wasn’t going to “disappear like a miracle”, or with the “warmer weather.”
You could’ve helped stop hundreds of thousands of American deaths but you didn’t.
You didn’t.
So you’re too late.— Jo (@JoJoFromJerz) April 14, 2021
Vaccine hesitancy and anti-vaccine sentiments have been dominant among Republican supporters since the beginning of the pandemic. About 25% of Trump voters told pollster Frank Luntz that they “definitely will not” get vaccinated and another 21% said they would wait for over a year to get the shot.
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