When it comes to vaccines, president Donald Trump’s attitude tends to be “do what I say, not what I do.”

Over the weekend, it was revealed that Trump received both a flu shot and a COVID-19 booster during his second physical of 2025. News of Trump’s inoculations came from Trump’s personal physician, Dr. Sean Barbabella, who wrote that the shots were part of a preventative health battery “in preparation for upcoming international travel.”

In any other timeline, the president receiving a routine vaccine battery wouldn’t even be a blip on the radar. But as the Trump administration has cast immense aspersions on vaccination, while fighting tooth and nail to uproot the last remnants of US public health infrastructure, it’s quite a statement.

Trump’s Health and Human Services Secretary Robert

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