President Donald Trump has thrown down the gauntlet to Big Pharma, demanding transparency on the very question that has haunted America since 2020: did the COVID-19 vaccines actually deliver what the companies claimed? In a fiery Truth Social post Monday, Trump called on Pfizer and other manufacturers to release their own internal findings about the efficacy of their shots — results he says he has personally seen but which the public has been denied.
“It is very important that the Drug Companies justify the success of their various COVID drugs,” Trump wrote. “Many people think they are a miracle that saved Millions of lives. Others disagree! With CDC being ripped apart over this question, I want the answer, and I want it NOW.”
Donald Trump Truth Social Post 08:15 AM EST 09/01/25 pic.twitter.com/oH1xIWQJQd
— Fan Donald J. Trump Posts From Truth Social (@TrumpDailyPosts) September 1, 2025
Trump went further, noting that Pfizer and others had presented him with “extraordinary” numbers. Yet, curiously, those numbers have never been shared broadly with the American public. “Why not?” he asked. “They show me GREAT numbers and results, but they don’t seem to be showing them to many others. I want them to show them NOW, to CDC and the public, and clear up this MESS, one way or the other!”
The ultimatum comes at a moment of deep upheaval inside the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Within weeks of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. assuming his post as Health and Human Services Secretary, CDC Director Susan Monarez was pushed out after just one month on the job. Her departure triggered a wave of resignations from senior leadership, including Dan Jernigan, Deb Houry, and Demetre Daskalakis — figures who had been instrumental in shaping public health policy during the Biden years.
For Trump, the timing is no coincidence. The CDC, long accused of politicizing science during the pandemic, is now unraveling from within. Kennedy is intent on tearing down what he calls the “fear factory,” while Trump is demanding Big Pharma account for whether its miracle claims hold water. Together, the moves suggest a reckoning is coming for the institutions and corporations that defined America’s pandemic response.
Susan Monarez is no longer director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. We thank her for her dedicated service to the American people. @SecKennedy has full confidence in his team at @CDCgov who will continue to be vigilant in protecting Americans against infectious…
— HHS.gov (@HHSGov) August 27, 2025
The stakes are enormous. If Pfizer and Moderna can produce solid, independent evidence proving their shots saved millions, it would cement Operation Warp Speed as one of Trump’s crowning achievements. But if the companies stonewall — or worse, if the data reveals exaggerations or manipulation — it will confirm what skeptics have long argued: that the vaccines were oversold, that the mandates were unjustified, and that the American people were misled.
Trump made it clear that this isn’t about protecting reputations anymore. “I hope OPERATION WARP SPEED was as ‘BRILLIANT’ as many say it was,” he wrote. “If not, we all want to know about it, and why?”
That blunt honesty is the difference now. Unlike the Biden administration, which scripted events and shielded the president from hard questions, Trump is putting the full weight of the presidency behind demanding answers — even if they challenge his own legacy.
