Trump Says Vaccine Rollout Going ‘Very Smoothly,’ Hails Quick Development as ‘Great Miracle’

A subject receives a shot in the first-stage clinical trial of a potential COVID-19 vaccine at the Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute in Seattle, Wash., on March 16, 2020. Ted S. Warren/AP Photo

President Donald Trump said the distribution of the two newly approved COVID-19 vaccines is going smoothly, calling the success of his administration in surging vaccine development a “great miracle.”

“Distribution of both vaccines is going very smoothly,” the president wrote in a tweet on Dec. 22. “Amazing how many people are being vaccinated, record numbers.”