The Lizard People have Gotten to Him Too!

Former President Donald Trump said that he recommends that people get the COVID-19 vaccine, even as a poll shows that about half of Republican men are reluctant to be inoculated.

A Fox News host on Tuesday asked the former president, who called in, whether he would “recommend to our audience that they get the vaccine,” noting that Trump himself had been vaccinated.

“I would, I would recommend it, and I would recommend it to a lot of people that don’t want to get it, and a lot of those people voted for me, frankly,” Trump said, adding that “we have our freedoms and we have to live by that, and I agree with that also.”

The most likely group to say they wouldn’t get the vaccine are Republican men, according to recent polling from PBS NewsHour, NPR and Marist.

In a survey conducted in early March, people nationwide were asked whether they would choose to get vaccinated if a coronavirus shot were available to them. Nearly half of Republican men said no, the highest of any group.

By comparison, 30% of all U.S. adults surveyed said they would choose not to get the vaccine, including 11% of Democrats and 41% of Republicans. Only 10% of President Joe Biden’s supporters said they wouldn’t get vaccinated, versus 47% of Trump supporters.

Trump and his wife, Melania, quietly received the vaccine while at the White House in January, according to reports earlier this month. Other political leaders have been vaccinated in public settings in order to encourage more people to get the shot once they’re eligible.