--- title: "Trump Admits He Got Jabbed With Multiple Vaccines That His Allies Say Are Poison" description: "US president Donald Trump has received multiple vaccines -- while his allies and appointees continue to rage against them." date: "2025-10-14" modified: "2025-10-14" authors: - name: "Joe Wilkins" job_title: "Correspondent" link: "https://futurism.com/authors/jwilkins" url: "https://futurism.com/future-society/trump-vaccinated-rfk" categories: - "Future Society" - "Health & Medicine" - "Medical" - "Pathogens" - "RX and Medicine" - "Viruses" --- # Trump Admits He Got Jabbed With Multiple Vaccines That His Allies Say Are Poison ![US president Donald Trump has received multiple vaccines -- while his allies and appointees continue to rage against them.]() *SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images* When it comes to vaccines, president Donald Trump's attitude tends to be "do what I say, not what I do." Over the weekend, it was revealed that Trump received both a flu shot and a COVID-19 booster during his second physical of 2025. News of Trump's inoculations came from Trump's personal physician, Dr. Sean Barbabella, who wrote that the shots were part of a preventative health battery "in preparation for upcoming international travel." In any other timeline, the president receiving a routine vaccine battery wouldn't even be a blip on the radar. But as the Trump administration has cast immense aspersions on vaccination, while fighting tooth and nail to uproot the last remnants of [US public health infrastructure](), it's quite a statement. Trump's Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy is a longtime [anti-vaxxer]() and [medicinal snake oil grifter](). Kennedy has [frequently railed]() about the COVID vaccines — which were developed with the assistance of the first Trump administration, albeit with a [shaky rollout]() — calling it the "deadliest vaccine ever made." (To date, it's estimated that inoculation against COVID has saved nearly [15 million lives]().) Earlier this year, Kennedy stoked long-parroted myths that vaccines are responsible for autism by claiming he would "find the cause" of the condition by September through a [comprehensive look at vaccines](). In September, after failing to find the promised cause, Kennedy's CDC [filed a notice]() that it was awarding a contract to further investigate possible links between vaccines and autism. "Dear MAGA — guess who just got both the updated COVID vaccine and flu shots today?" [wrote]() epidemiologist and and New England Complex Systems Institute researcher Eric Feigl-Ding. "Your dear Leader Trump. Maybe you should get them too." And regardless of Trump's vaccination status, his administration's bloodletting of the country's public health infrastructure continues. Soon after Trump received his booster, his budget director Russel Vought worked with Kennedy to [lay off]() over 1,300 viral disease experts and staffers at the Center for Disease Control, before [reversing roughly half]() of the layoffs. At the time of writing, some 600 CDC workers remain terminated, after being designated "non-essential." **More on Donald Trump:** *[Top Official Horrified When Trump Thought He Was Sending Direct Message But Accidentally Posted It on Main Account]()* ## Author At Futurism, I focus on the intersection of technology and power — examining the economics, history, and politics behind today’s dystopian headlines. As a writer, I’m interested in topics ranging from AI’s impact on labor to startups nobody asked for. My prior work includes bylines in Jacobin, Verso, and Blue Labyrinths. My work for Futurism has been cited by publications including Forbes, The Guardian, MIT Technology Review, Time, The Nation, Mother Jones, The Verge, and Wired. I grew up in Michigan, attending Central Michigan University as well as Ball State University, where I earned a master of music. I now live in Brooklyn with my girlfriend and our cat Ziti. On weekends, you can find me hunched over a cold pint arguing geopolitics with the other transplants. ### Author social links [Bluesky]()