在显示出参与的迹象后冠状病毒总统先生，这是一场席卷全国的流行病唐纳德·特朗普周五，奥巴马政府努力支持疫苗开发的最新进展打破了长期的沉默。
这位注重形象的总统因在连任失败后对执政不感兴趣而受到严厉批评，他对毫无根据的欺诈指控提出质疑，并在史无前例的沉默中面临电视和印刷上令人沮丧的头条新闻。
特朗普没有发布新的公告，而是吹捧联邦政府在新冠肺炎疫苗最终分销中的作用。制药公司辉瑞(Pfizer)本周早些时候表示，试验显示，该疫苗的有效性超过90%。
他还利用这些言论攻击了一个政治敌人，纽约州长安德鲁·科莫(Andrew Cuomo)，他是一名民主党人，他说科莫成立的独立审查小组将推迟纽约人接种疫苗。
特朗普说:“最早在4月份，疫苗将向所有普通人提供，除了纽约州这样的地方，在那里，出于政治原因，州长决定说——你知道，我不认为这是好的，政治上——我认为从健康的角度来看这是非常糟糕的，但他想花时间接种疫苗。”“他不相信疫苗来自哪里。这些都来自世界上最伟大的公司，世界上最伟大的实验室。”
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2020年11月13日，美国总统唐纳德·特朗普在白宫玫瑰园发表演讲。
特朗普发表讲话后不久，库莫就接受了有线电视采访，否认纽约和其他州为验证美国食品和药物管理局(U.S. Food and Drug Administration)的结论而设立的审查小组会造成任何延误。美国食品和药物管理局负责授权和批准疫苗。
他说，纽约的科学小组将“审查食品和药物管理局通过的方案，所以他们可以对我说这是正确的方案，没有政治化。”他说，“我们不会重复食品和药物管理局做的测试。”
库莫在接受美国有线电视新闻网采访时说:“不会有任何延误。"我们的评审将与他们的交付同时进行."
周五早些时候，特朗普在椭圆形办公室收到了关于联邦政府疫苗计划“曲速行动”的最新消息——这是他本周首次公开宣布的与大流行有关的事件。会议结束后，白宫宣布他将于当天晚些时候在白宫玫瑰园发表“曲速行动的最新进展”。
他的出现正值该国打破新病例和住院记录之际。
总统已经几个月没有参加冠状病毒特别工作组的会议了。然而，副总统彭斯在周一确实领导了这样一次会议;这是他近三周以来的第一次。
白宫表示，媒体成员将不被允许报道周五的椭圆形办公室会议。
虽然总统在推特上庆祝辉瑞的新闻，但他主要是通过新闻对他个人的影响来解读新闻，抱怨宣布的时机在政治上伤害了他。
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唐纳德·特朗普总统参加了在t墓举行的退伍军人节敬献花圈仪式
特朗普毫无根据的阴谋论是，疫苗宣布的时间被推迟是为了不使他受益，这与他同样毫无根据的说法相呼应，即公众对每天杀害数百名美国人的流行病的关注被武器化，作为反对他的政治工具。
在竞选的最后阶段，特朗普指责媒体对大流行的关注，并对所有关于“COVID，COVID，COVID”的言论表示愤怒，声称大流行被用来损害他连任的机会，选举后“你不会再听到它了”。
选举后，媒体继续详细报道这一流行病，因为随着该国进入更冷的月份，病毒有恶化的迹象。
特朗普总统发表公开言论已经八天了。除了周三短暂前往阿灵顿国家公墓纪念退伍军人之外，自乔·拜登周六被提名为当选总统以来，总统一直不在视线之内。
这是他总统任期内最长的一次公开沉默，除了经常在推特上发布无上限的帖子，进一步揭露选举欺诈的指控。
不过，他一直在打电话给朋友和盟友，其中一些人在社交媒体上称特朗普头脑清醒。
福克斯新闻的杰拉尔多·瑞弗拉发微博他曾与特朗普交谈过，特朗普告诉他，他是一个“现实主义者”，会做“正确的事情”，但希望让投票认证过程在某些州进行。
“他看起来像一个重量级冠军，在进入最后一轮的比赛中落后了很多，但他决心继续战斗，因为他知道所有的裁判都在为另一个人而战，”里维拉说书写星期五早上。“尽管如此，他还是要去接最后一个铃，寻找他知道是漫长的淘汰赛。”
保守派记者拜伦·约克说他和特朗普周四上午表示，总统对自己的选举立场充满信心——但也重复了特朗普对选举的虚假说法。
Trump breaks silence with vaccine update after criticism he's ignored pandemic
After showing little signs of engaging on thecoronaviruspandemic this week as it rages across the country, PresidentDonald Trumpon Friday broke a long silence with an update on his administration’s effort to support the development of a vaccine.
The image-conscious president had come under heavy criticism for showing little interest in governing in the wake of his reelection defeat -- which he is contesting with baseless allegations of fraud -- and had faced withering headlines on television and in print amid an unprecedented stretch of silence.
Trump made no new announcements, instead touting the federal government's role in the ultimate distribution of a COVID-19 vaccine that pharmaceutical company Pfizer said earlier this week had been shown in trials to be more than 90% effective.
He also used the remarks to attack a political foe, New York's Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, saying that an independent review panel Cuomo had set up would delay New Yorkers from getting inoculated.
"As soon as April, the vaccine will be available to the entire general population, with the exceptions of places like New York state where, for political reasons, the governor decided to say -- and, you know, I don't think it's good, politically -- I think it's very bad from a health standpoint, but he wants to take his time on the vaccine," Trump said. "He doesn't trust where the vaccine’s coming from. These are coming from the greatest companies anywhere in the world, greatest labs in the world."
Cuomo took to cable television soon after Trump's remarks, denying that there would be any delay caused by review panels New York and other states have set up to validate the conclusions of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, which authorizes and approves vaccines.
New York's scientific panel, he said, will "will review the protocol that the FDA went through, so they can say to me it was the proper protocol, it was not politicized." He said "we're not going to redo the tests that the FDA did."
"There will be no delay," Cuomo said in an interview with CNN. "Our review will be simultaneous with their delivery."
Earlier Friday, Trump had received an update in the Oval Office on "Operation Warp Speed," the federal government's vaccine program -- his first publicly announced event related to the pandemic all week. After the meeting concluded, the White House announced he would deliver "an update on Operation Warp Speed" in the White House Rose Garden later in the day.
His appearance came as the country is breaking records of new cases and hospitalizations.
The president has not attended a meeting of coronavirus task force in months. However, Vice President Pence did lead such a meeting on Monday; it was his first in nearly three weeks.
The White House said that members of the press would not be allowed to cover Friday's Oval Office meeting.
While the president has celebrated Pfizer's news on Twitter, he has principally interpreted the news through the prism of how it has impacted him personally, complaining that the announcement's timing hurt him politically.
Trump's unfounded conspiracy theory that the vaccine announcement timing was delayed so as not to benefit him echoes his similarly unfounded claim that the public's focus on the pandemic that is killing hundreds of Americans daily had been weaponized as a political tool against him.
In the final stretch of his campaign, Trump railed against the media’s focus on pandemic and expressed exasperation over all the talk of "COVID, COVID, COVID,” claiming the pandemic was being exploited to hurt his chances of re-election and that "you won't hear about it anymore" after the election.
The media has continued to cover the pandemic in detail following the election, as the virus has shown signs of worsening as the country heads into the colder months.
It has been eight days since President Trump has made public remarks. And aside from a brief outing to Arlington National Cemetery Wednesday to honor veterans, the president has remained out of view since Joe Biden was projected president-elect on Saturday.
It was the longest stretch of public silence of his presidency, aside from frequent all-caps posts on Twitter furthering debunked claims of electoral fraud.
He has been calling friends and allies, though, some of whom have taken to social media to present Trump as clear-headed.
Fox News' Geraldo Riveratweetedhe had spoken with Trump, who he said told him that he is a "realist" and will do the "right thing" but wanted to let the vote-certification process play out in certain states.
"He seemed like a heavyweight champion who is behind in points leading into the final round, but determined to fight on, knowing all the refs have scored the fight for the other guy," RiverawroteFriday morning. "Still, he's going to answer the final bell, looking for the knockout he knows is a longshot."
Conservative journalist Byron Yorksaid he spoke withTrump on Thursday morning and said the president was confident about his electoral position -- but also repeated Trump's false claims about the election.
