By and large, the President of the United States can order people to do things, and they will do those things.
I think this exaggerates the power of the president. Obama did try to order Gitmo closed. Trump did try to withdraw troops from Afghanistan and failed.
On the specific topic of COVID-19 Trump spoke about having a vaccine quite early, likely because he believed he could just approve it and get it distributed even if the evidence for the vaccine was only a little better then the evidence then what Benjamin Jesty had.
It turns out that the president doesn’t have the power to just approve a vaccine without it having gone through “enough” testing.
I think this exaggerates the power of the president. Obama did try to order Gitmo closed. Trump did try to withdraw troops from Afghanistan and failed.
On the specific topic of COVID-19 Trump spoke about having a vaccine quite early, likely because he believed he could just approve it and get it distributed even if the evidence for the vaccine was only a little better then the evidence then what Benjamin Jesty had.
It turns out that the president doesn’t have the power to just approve a vaccine without it having gone through “enough” testing.