Former US president Donald Trump revealed he received a booster shot of the COVID-19 vaccine, drawing boos from a crowd in Dallas. Trump made the disclosure Sunday night during the final stop of The History Tour, a live interview show he has been doing with former Fox News host Bill O'Reilly.
"Both the president and I are vaxxed," O'Reilly said at the American Airlines Center, drawing some jeers from the audience, according to video shared online by O'Reilly's No Spin News.
"Did you get the booster," he asked the former president. Yes," Trump responded. "I got it, too," O'Reilly said, eliciting more hectoring.
While Trump has expressed opposition to vaccine mandates, he has long taken credit for the vaccines developed on his watch. At the same time, he has refused to urge his supporters to take them, even though Republicans remain far less likely than Democrats to be protected.
For instance, while other world leaders, including former Vice President Mike Pence, President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, received their doses publicly to promote it, Trump chose to receive his in private an acknowledgement of the unpopularity of the vaccine with large swaths of his base.
