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Pregnant woman in viral Trump video responds to ‘weirdos’
Jayme Leagh Franklin, the woman who went viral for repeatedly touching her belly while standing behind US President Donald Trump during a vaccine announcement, has hit back at internet trolls. 'I'm just…
The Story in Brief
Jayme Leagh Franklin, the woman who went viral for repeatedly touching her belly while standing behind US President Donald Trump during a vaccine announcement, has hit back at internet trolls. 'I'm just pregnant you weirdos,' she wrote on X. The video, recorded at the Oval Office on Monday, showed Franklin nodding and smiling as Trump signed an executive order revamping childhood vaccine recommendations.
Franklin is the founder of The Conservateur, a media and lifestyle brand for conservative Christian women, and has worked at Fox News. Online conspiracy theories falsely claimed she was pressing a button to 'zap' Trump awake. The incident drew more attention than the vaccine policy, which promotes spacing out childhood shots, a view widely discredited by medical experts.
The Indian Opinion
The internet's obsession with turning a pregnant woman's natural gesture into a conspiracy theory says more about our appetite for distraction than anything else. Meanwhile, the actual policy, Trump's push to alter childhood vaccine schedules, received far less scrutiny. The real test is whether serious debate on vaccine safety and scheduling can survive being drowned out by viral nonsense. Will anyone even remember the executive order next week?
Sources (2): ndtv.com, timesnownews.com
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