Trump holds forth on vaccines, the media, and drones - The Boston Globe

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

76% : Trump also praised Pete Hegseth, his embattled defense secretary pick, for making "tremendous strides over the last week."
61% : Trump also said he had spoken about migration with Claudia Sheinbaum, the president of Mexico, which he said was "very much on notice."
56% : I don't know -- my personality changed or something.
55% : At one point, Trump suggested that he was being treated better as he enters his second term, this time with more of the Republican Party firmly under his dominance.
50% : "Trump chose Rubio to be secretary of state.
39% : "The first term, everybody was fighting me," Trump said.
38% : "The government knows what is happening," Trump said, though he declined to say if he had been briefed by government officials.
37% : "Something's wrong, and we're going to find out," Trump said.
37% : Trump threatened more defamation lawsuits against the press, part of an effort to crack down on unfavorable media coverage.
36% : "You're not going to lose the polio vaccine," Trump said.
35% : "I don't like mandates," Trump said.
33% : Trump also attacked the Pulitzer Prize Board, which he has a pending libel suit against, for its decision to award the national reporting prize in 2018 to The New York Times and The Washington Post for their coverage of Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election and Russian ties to the Trump campaign.
32% : Trump did not talk much about the border wall during the campaign, but on Monday he said the Biden administration was selling off the unused wall materials that remained when he left office, an indication that wall construction will once again be a priority during his second term in the White House.
28% : Still, Trump said he would preserve access to the polio vaccine.
27% : Trump also threatened to dismiss federal workers who do not return to the office and said he was "looking at" privatizing the U.S. Postal Service, extending a yearslong assault against the agency.
27% : In fact, Russia had already invaded Ukraine's eastern sections in 2014 and Trump did nothing to stop the war, which then expanded with the full-scale invasion in 2022.
25% : Trump declined to say whether he had spoken to President Vladimir Putin of Russia since the election but repeated his claim that Russia would not have invaded Ukraine on his watch.
23% : Trump defended Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a vaccine skeptic he picked to lead the Department of Health and Human Services.
23% : Trump said his administration would look into whether vaccines cause autism, a debunked theory.
15% : "I'm not a big mandate person."Asked whether Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida would appoint Trump's daughter-in-law, Lara, to the Senate seat being vacated by Marco Rubio, Trump said, "Ron's going to have to make that decision, and he'll make the right decision.
15% : Trump described the investigation into his 2016 campaign's ties with Russia as a "hoax."
14% : Trump, without citing evidence, accused the Biden administration of withholding information about an increasing number of mysterious drone sightings in the Northeast.
12% : The legal threats came on the heels of ABC News saying Saturday that it had agreed to give $15 million to Trump's future presidential foundation and museum to settle a defamation suit that Trump filed against the network and one of its anchors, George Stephanopoulos.

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