I'd like to think you're right. But there's one problem I see with this reasoning: the vaccines don't seem to be harmless placebos. The case reports on VAERS have gone up exponentially, and there's been many articles about adverse reactions to the spike proteins. There's also worrying evidence that the vaccine may cause infertility down the road (spikes concentrating in ovaries and being similar to placenta-forming proteins).

It seems to me that an equally plausible narrative is that the entire Covid-19 scare was aimed at getting us to accept a new "vaccine technology," which is actually gene manipulation, without questioning it. Under normal times people would be more scared of the gene therapy than the disease, so they had to hype of the fear level until people were willing (or forced) to accept their "cure."

This doesn't necessarily mean Trump was in on the whole reason behind the Covid scare-- he could've seen what was going on, knew it was over-hyped, and turned to the solution that seemed most reasonable-- vaccines. He may have been totally unaware that him initiating Operation Warp Speed was exactly what the powers that be needed to make their mass-vaxx plan work.