The CEO of Pfizer received loud boos when he was introduced by Donald Trump at a Black History Month event at the White House. 

Trump made several announcements at the reception, including naming Alice Johnson his ‘pardon czar,’ walked out with Tiger Woods and announced a ceremonial statue for 비아그라 구입 Kobe Bryant.

However, when Trump introduced some of the dignitaries in attendance, Pfizer chief Albert Boula was not well received.

‘We also have the head of Pfizer here so I want to thank him, one of the great people, 비아그라 구입처 one of the great businessmen, thank you Albert, thank you,’ Trump said.

Immediately, boos rained down on Trump from the partisan crowd which Trump even gave a chuckle to. 

Bourla has made overtures to the Trump administration since they won the 2024 election in November, including a secret dinner with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. where they discussed how to fix America’s health crisis. 

He revealed to stakeholders in early February that the rendezvous took place in December, a few weeks after RFK Jr was nominated to head the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

The two reportedly discussed chronic diseases, cardiovascular diseases, and more importantly, cancer, which is something that is ‘very, very high in the mind of the president,’ Bourla said in an earnings call.

The CEO of Pfizer received loud boos when he was introduced by Donald Trump at a Black History Month event at the White House

When Trump introduced some of the dignitaries in attendance, Pfizer chief Albert Boula was not well received

‘And it is also very in the mind of Mr. Kennedy,’ he added.

However, the two avoided discussing vaccines, focusing on topics they already agreed on and ‘not on the things that we clearly disagree, like the vaccines.’

RFK Jr has repeatedly questioned the safety of childhood vaccines and called for the Covid vaccine made by Pfizer to be canceled due to concerns about side effects.

The former Democrat blames America’s chronic disease crisis on the pharmaceutical industry and has promised to untangle the connections between the FDA and big pharma.

Yet the meeting between Bourla and RFK apparently went well, with Bourla telling stakeholders that he is ‘cautiously optimistic’ about the Trump administration’s policies: ‘I think there are a lot of opportunities that probably outweigh the risks that we have with the radical change that we will see from the Trump administration.’

The dinner occurred in December, but Pfizer had ‘no further details to share.’ It is unclear where it occurred. 

Bourla added in his call that the administration did not want ‘another health crisis’ like the Covid pandemic unfolding and maintained that ‘they will be very, very prudent with everything they try to do.’

Pfizer is a $147 billion company behind Covid vaccines, cholesterol-lowering drugs, Viagra, cancer drugs, pneumonia and meningitis vaccines, and autoimmune medications.

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During the earnings call, Bourla reported that Pfizer’s quarter four revenues exceeded their expectations with a revenue of $17.8 billion, up from $14.6 billion a year ago and above Wall Street analysts’ estimates of $17.4 billion.

However, its vast profits could suffer in the coming quarters if Kennedy fulfills his 2023 vow to gut federal health agencies that monitor and recommend schedules for childhood vaccines.

He told NBC News then that the FDA, CDC, and advisory panels that recommend vaccine approvals and schedules are ‘sock puppets’ for the pharmaceutical industry.

In 2021, he was one of two people who petitioned the FDA for the ‘immediate revocation’ of emergency use authorizations that permitted children under 16 to receive the Pfizer and other COVID vaccines.

Shortly before President Trump’s win last year, Kennedy did an about-face and said nobody in the government would ‘take away anybody’s vaccines.’

Still, critics of his nomination worry that Kennedy has a financial incentive to question the efficacy of vaccines, such as Pfizer’s Covid vaccine, calling into question whether decisions to revise vaccine policies are made in the public’s interest or influenced by personal financial gain.

Kennedy’s dinner with Bourla came roughly two months after Trump hosted executives of Pfizer, Eli Lilly, and PhRMA (the pharmaceutical company’s trade group) at Mar-a-Lago. 

There, they discussed cooperation between the public and private sectors in developing cancer drugs and other innovative treatments.

RFK Jr has repeatedly questioned the safety of childhood vaccines and called for the Covid vaccine made by Pfizer to be canceled due to concerns about side effects

Kennedy’s dinner with Bourla came roughly two months after Trump hosted executives of Pfizer, Eli Lilly, and PhRMA (the pharmaceutical company’s trade group) at Mar-a-Lago 

But critics of the current administration have pointed out that Kennedy’s objectives—cracking down on perceived corruption, banning drug advertising, removing regulators’ conflicts of interest, and lowering drug prices—run counter to the goals of an administration bent on deregulation.

The Trump administration funded Operation Warp Speed, the multi-billion dollar initiative that was instrumental in Pfizer’s creation of a Covid vaccine in under a year.

While Bourla and Trump have shared a prickly relationship – the latter accused Bourla of lacking the ‘courage’ to issue positive data on the Pfizer vaccine before former President Joe Biden’s 2020 win, suggesting there was a ‘medical deep state’ aimed at aiding Joe Biden.

But the two appear to be on good terms. And though Bourla has said that he and Kennedy ‘will [not] come that close when it comes to vaccines, because his positions are extreme, not scientific,’ he added, ‘I don’t see why we wouldn’t be able to work with him on developing a new Operation Warp Speed for cancer.’

Trump made some inroads with Black voters in the 2024 presidential election, particularly among Black men, but he only received 20% of their vote, a one percentage point increase from 2020, according to Edison Research.

Former Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee last year, won 92% of Black women voters nationwide, up two points from 2020.

Black voters accounted for 11% of the share of voters nationwide. Overall, Harris won 86% of the Black vote, compared to 12% for Trump, according to Edison Research, the same share of support Joe Biden received in 2020.

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