Trump has never been anti-vax – if anything he was pro-vaccine before there even was one – much of his rationale he gave for downplaying covid in the early stages of the pandemic was that he presumed that a vaccine would just come along and everything would be fine. He was Commander in Chief of ‘Operation Warp Speed’ that funded accelerated vaccine development. Even though they didn’t draw on that support he was genuinely irked that he wasn’t given direct credit by Pfizer for them being first to bring a vaccine to market.
Theres incredible hipocracy going on right in front of Right Wing Americans over vaccines and the scales just won’t fall from their eyes – Trump got vaccinated as soon as he could (he just stayed quiet about it), Fox News pedals anti-vax, anti mask rhetoric whilst Murdoch is vaccinated, his other news outlets (such as the Sun) accrtively promote vaccination programs and while Fox itself has extremely strict protocols for its staff over vaccination and testing – the presenters and pundits on their shows that are ‘just asking questions’ won’t have got into the building without complying with those protocols.
The problem now for Donald is events are overtaking him – Trump isn’t Trumpy-enough for Trumpists