Actually, it was. For Trump at least.
The reason he never invoked the Defense Production Act was simple: He didn't want to make companies produce what we needed. He wanted to sell contracts to the highest bidder.
If Trump can't get a kickback off the deal, then he doesn't make the deal.
I can tell you exactly how that conversation went down:
Pfizer: Mr. President, we're only going to be able to produce X amount of this vaccine in a year. We'd like to give you first offer on buying an additional allotment so that most of the United States can be vaccinated by the end of 2021.
Trump: What's in it for me?
Pfizer: Excuse me, sir?
Trump: How much are you willing to pay me to use taxpayer dollars to buy your vaccine? I mean, lots of vaccines are going to be coming out, so I'll be able to buy them from anybody I want.
Pfizer: I beg your pardon?
Trump: It's this simple - you either pay me to pay you, or somebody else with a vaccine will.
Pfizer: Mr. President, we don't do that sort of thing.
Trump: Then get the hell out of my office.
And here we all are now in the early days of this vaccine and we're already out of it. That's how Trump rolls. That's why he didn't buy the extra vaccines. And now, of course, he's trying to use an executive order to make them sell to the U.S. only.
LMAO!
Right. Yeah. Sure. That'll hold water.
And still, to this very day, he won't invoke the DPA because in his sick, twisted, moronic mind he still thinks he's going to make money off the vaccines.