U.S. President Donald Trump in the Cabinet Room of the White House on Aug. 26, 2025 in Washington, D.C.
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President Donald Trump on Monday called on pharmaceutical companies to “justify the success” of their Covid drugs days after the Food and Drug Administration set new limits on who can receive vaccines for the virus.
“It is very important that the Drug Companies justify the success of their various Covid Drugs. Many people think they are a miracle that saved Millions of lives. Others disagree!” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post.
The FDA on Wednesday approved the latest round of Covid vaccines, but only for people at higher risk of severe illness.
The president’s comments also come days after he fired Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Susan Monarez after she refused to resign. Four other top health officials at the CDC also announced they were quitting the agency last week, including Demetre Daskalakis, director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases.
“With CDC being ripped apart over this question, I want the answer, and I want it NOW,” Trump said in the post. “I have been shown information from Pfizer, and others, that is extraordinary, but they never seem to show those results to the public. Why not???”
The leadership upheaval at the CDC follows a series of measures by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to overhaul federal health agencies and change U.S. immunization policies. He has instituted mass firings, gutted a key government vaccine panel and canceled studies on mRNA shot technology.
In his social media post, Trump urged drug companies to be more transparent about their results to “clear up this MESS.”
