"By early next year, the vaccine will be available to every American. And shortly thereafter, it will be delivered worldwide,” Mr Trump said in a video shot in the White House, apparently before he left for a golf and working vacation at one of his Florida resorts.

“This is one of the most extraordinary scientific, industrial and medical feats in history. Everybody has it as that, that’s what they’re marking it down as,” he said. “We can never let people forget where it came from and how it came. We’re very proud to be honored … We have to be remembered for what’s been done.”

Edit: banned for speaking the truth.