President Donald Trump blasted the U.S. Food and Drug Administration Friday morning, saying the "big, old, slow turtle" isn't moving fast enough in getting the COVID-19 vaccine to the public.
He wrote on Twitter:
"While my pushing the money drenched but heavily bureaucratic @US_FDA saved five years in the approval of NUMEROUS great new vaccines, it is still a big, old, slow turtle. Get the dam vaccines out NOW, Dr. Hahn @SteveFDA. Stop playing games and start saving lives!!!"
"I just want to stop the world from killing itself!" Trump added in a subsequent tweet.
He also used the platform to repeat criticisms of Democrat Joe Biden's involvement in the swine flu vaccine program during the Obama administration:
"The Swine Flu (H1N1), and the attempt for a vaccine by the Obama Administration, with Joe Biden in charge, was a complete and total disaster. Now they want to come in and take over one of the “greatest and fastest medical miracles in modern day history.” I don’t think so!"
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