Trump: 'I got the Pfizer' vaccine

Donald Trump, the 45th President of the United States, joins Yahoo Finance's Adam Shapiro to discuss his own experience with the COVID-19 vaccine.

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ADAM SHAPIRO: Let's talk about COVID because Operation Warp Speed is one of the positives from the administration, and you've brought up the need for vaccines. You've actually told people to get vaccines. I'm just curious. I got the Pfizer vaccine, which vaccine did you get? Have you shared that with us yet?

DONALD TRUMP: Well, I got the Pfizer, and I would have been very happy with any of them. I thought a very bad statement was when they did a pause on Johnson & Johnson. I think that frightened That was a bad thing to do. At that time, when they did the pause, they had six people that may have had some difficulty out of millions that received it. But I think the pause was a very bad thing to do.

ADAM SHAPIRO: Mr. President, you've talked a lot about the good state of your health, and I'm curious, would you get the booster shot?

DONALD TRUMP: Well, if I felt it was necessary. I guess I have sort of a double vaccine because as you know, I had it, recovered from it pretty well. I don't think I had it like the press, like the media said, you know they were making it difficult. Not pleasant, but I had it, I recovered. I, in addition to that, got the shot. I mean, I'm somebody that tells people I'd like to see them get it. I also want them to have their freedoms et cetera. But I got the double shot.

And if I felt that it was necessary, and let's see where this whole thing is going, I mean, I would have-- I was surprised. I thought it would have been gone long before now. You know, you don't hear Biden being criticized for the fact that this thing is lingering on in some cases. You know, numbers that are very, very large.

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ADAM SHAPIRO: It is, Mr. President, it is lingering on. But when I mentioned you had said to your supporters, get a vaccine, some of them booed, and the current data shows us that it's the unvaccinated that are contributing to why it's lingering. What do you say to those people?

DONALD TRUMP: Well, you know, it's interesting. When I was president, everybody wanted to get the vaccine. Everybody. There was a rush to get it. You didn't hear anything about mandates. You didn't hear anything about, Oh, gee, people don't want to take it.

After I left, people don't want to take it and it's very interesting and I think it's because they don't trust Biden. They don't trust the administration. As you know--

ADAM SHAPIRO: You don't think it's misinformation about the vaccines?

DONALD TRUMP: Vice president-- No. Vice President Harris made some very nasty comments, and I think maybe people took that seriously, what she said. But you know, I think they hurt the vaccine.

Now they're trying to get everybody to take it, but I will say, and I think you'll agree, when I was president, there was a rush to get it. Everybody wanted to get it. It was only after that you started to hear this.