Operation Warp Speed was one of Trump’s biggest achievements. Then came RFK Jr. and vaccine skeptics
September 4, 2025
President Donald Trump launched Operation Warp Speed during the COVID-19 pandemic, and, as recently as last week, praised it as a major achievement. However, Trump’s handpicked health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and a growing cadre of Trump’s “Make America Great Again” supporters are distrustful of the very mRNA vaccine technology that the president has championed. At a congressional hearing Thursday, Kennedy came under fire for his work to restrict access to vaccines, including the COVID-19 shots touted by his boss. Highlighting the divide was that much of the praise of Trump’s efforts to find a vaccine for COVID-19 came Thursday from Democrats.