Trump and his friends have hidden agenda.
Donald Trump isn't a smart man and he has some very concerning beliefs. I mean we know for a fact that Trump slept/sleeps with a copy of Hitler's Speeches in his bedside drawer. He admitted that himself. He also has some very strange views on exercise, claiming the human body is like a battery and too much exercise can kill you. He tweeted that he believes vaccines cause Autism.
A lot of political positions have some weird fucking ideas on health and science, even the "normal" ones (Look up Posadism, right now, drop whatever you are doing and look it up right now, it's ducktits bonkers), but the Right are the ones who are most infamous for them. I mean the basis for OG Nazism involved Supermen with high technology coming to Earth on an Ice Ball (no seriously), but you also have ideas popular on the right like:
- Socioeconomic factors for health are overblown or non existent (popular with conservatives and libertarians).
- HIV doesn't cause AIDS/HIV-AIDS doesn't exist/Was made in a lab (Founder of GB news and Epistein book alum Andrew Neil believes this).
- Immuno-comprimised people deserve to die as to not inconvenience them, personally (popular during Covid).
- Vaccines cause Autism.
- Gender identity doesn't exist and trans and nonbinary people are sexual perverts who should be killed (if AMAB or Intersex) or "Brought back to woman hood to save their wombs" (if AFAB, yes, sounds like a handmaid's tale).
- Intersex people don't exist/don't deserve to live.
- Contraception is wrong/doesn't work and should be banned.
- Fertilised Human Eggs are instantly Sentient and Sapient.
- Menstruation is a disorder (yes, you heard that) caused by toxins.
- Faith Healing.
- That certain races have superpowers.
- That the world is ~6000 years old and the bible is right.
- That Mobile Phones or phone masts cause Cancer/Autism/Covid.
- That chemical reactions in people's guts cause Autism.
- That Autism can be cured.
- That Queerness can be cured.
- That eating raw meat or dairy products is good for you.
And many more.
Now I am going to also say that alongside insanity, there's a more "rational"/Machiavellian reason for them doing things like getting rid of vaccines and that is the following:
- They don't pay anything to help anyone. Generally they believe the state is there to keep the underlings in line, not help them.
- They think that actual healthcare should only be accessible to those who can pay for it, especially if it's out of reach for the average person and thus is for the "elite".
- If people are sick, they will have to spend large amounts of money, meaning they can extract even more labour from them to enrich themselves. If they can't, well, they die and aren't a "problem" for them.
The reason why Trump and his ilk having these beliefs are the following:
- They're sociopaths who love the idea of NeoFeudalism more than a British MP enjoys Cocaine.
- They're not very bright.