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Podcaster Ann Vandersteel, who has pushed conspiracy theories, posted that Trump’s Pfizer announcement “crossed a red line for me” and “entrenches its [Pfizer’s] failed mRNA empire.” Vandersteel has praised Kennedy and called the COVID vaccine a “bioweapon death shot.” In response to Trump’s announcement, she also wrote that “TrumpRx isn’t healthcare reform. It’s a $70B shakedown,” and claimed that it means “jobs for a few, control for many, death for millions. So essentially drug prices are reduced and mRNA gets a pass.” As The Daily Beast reported, Vandersteel has “tweeted that the nonsensical Pizzagate conspiracy theory … is ‘all true’ and ‘real,’” has “promoted debunked 9/11 conspiracy theories,” and “has championed QAnon.” [Twitter/X, 8/23/24, 7/12/25, 10/1/25; The Daily Beast, 1/23/19]
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Shannon Joy, a “prominent anti-vaccine podcaster,” called Trump's Pfizer deal a “huge betrayal.” Joy has claimed there are “horrifying vaccine injuries and vaccine deaths, from vaccines they were forced or coerced to take,” and she supported Trump’s nomination of Kennedy for HHS, posting that he “needs to be confirmed.” On her show, Joy called the deal “absolutely devastating” and said “Trojan horse Trump … whores himself out yet again to Pfizer.” Joy also titled one of her episodes after Trump’s announcement “Backlash! Medical Freedom Community Rages Against Trump/Pfizer Deal And The MAHA Front Is Cracking.” [The Shannon Joy Show, 10/1/25, 10/2/25; Twitter/X, 1/26/25, 7/29/25; The Bulwark, 6/26/25]
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Commentator Sasha Latypova, who has spread vaccine misinformation, claimed “MAHA is completely destroyed by” Trump’s Pfizer deal. Latypova, an online writer who previously appeared on Kennedy’s podcast, told Joy in an interview that the deal violated the law and Trump was giving Pfizer ”the power of the state to provide themselves full liability [and] immunity.” [FactCheck.org, 1/18/23; Children’s Health Defense, The Defender Show, 3/16/23; The Shannon Joy Show, 10/1/25]
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Mary Talley Bowden, a podcaster and doctor who was “suspended in 2021 by Houston Methodist Hospital for spreading Covid-19 misinformation,” called Trump’s Pfizer deal “a slap in the face.” Bowden, who also advocated for Kennedy’s confirmation, told Joy in an interview that “it was a gut punch,” called the deal “disgusting,” and claimed that she was in “several chat rooms with the vaccine-injured and people were crying” and “really upset about this.” [Agence France-Presse, 11/22/24; WUSF, 9/16/25; Twitter/X, 1/26/25; The Shannon Joy Show, 10/1/25]
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Podcaster Thomas Renz, who reportedly “boosted his profile with lawsuits challenging coronavirus vaccines” and has pushed misinformation about COVID vaccines, called Trump’s Pfizer deal “a bomb going off with the MAHA-MAGA alliance.” Renz — who previously said that he has “spoken at length a few different times” with Kennedy and “he’s a very good guy” — called the Pfizer deal “one of the most phenomenal and appalling actions that I can even imagine” and said it means Trump is either “the dumbest man in the planet or he sold out.” [The Washington Post, 9/20/21; Media Matters, 1/12/22, 2/4/25; The Tom Renz Show, 11/18/24; Ask Dr. Drew, 10/2/25; Daily Pulse, 10/1/25]
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McCullough Foundation administrator Nicolas Hulscher: Trump’s Pfizer deal is “a slap in the face to the entire MAHA initiative.” Hulscher is an online writer and administrator at the McCullough Foundation, founded by Peter McCullough; both Hulscher and McCullough “have previously spread vaccine misinformation,” according to Science Feedback. Hulscher, who has praised Kennedy for his “long-awaited offensive against COVID shots,” said that “we were backstabbed by Albert Bourla and the Trump administration” and posted that Pfizer was being “rewarded with an agreement to ‘cure’ cancers its own mRNA shots helped unleash.” [McCullough Foundation, accessed 10/6/25; Science Feedback, 2/8/24; Daily Pulse, 10/1/25; Twitter/X, 4/23/25, 10/2/25]
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Podcaster Maria Zeee, who “emerged from Australia’s freedom and anti-vaccine movement” and has guest-hosted Infowars, said Trump’s Pfizer deal means “the illusion of MAHA is completely over.” Zeee, who has also reportedly spread vaccine misinformation, said the deal was “so egregious” and Bourla was “being rewarded for what he and his company did to Americans and people all over the world.” [Crickey, 6/24/22; Australian Associated Press, 2/22/24; Media Matters, 10/4/23; Daily Pulse, 10/1/25, 10/1/25]
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Podcaster Jane Ruby, who has spread medical misinformation, wrote that Trump and Kennedy are “now undeniably complicit in this crime against human beings” with the Pfizer deal. Ruby also posted that the deal was an “active crime scene.” [Agence France-Presse, 7/23/21; Forbes, 7/10/21; Telegram, 10/1/25; Twitter/X, 10/3/25]
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Podcaster Sherri Tenpenny, an ally of Kennedy who has pushed false claims about vaccines, said, “What a deal — cheaper drugs and bioweapons that are going to kill us all.” While she made positive remarks about some aspects of the deal, she also said there “was a huge trade-off” that would lead to “more mRNA vaccines” and eventually “the destruction of the human race.” Tenpenny became well-known after she falsely claimed during a 2021 hearing in Ohio that the COVID-19 vaccine makes people “magnetized.” [Media Matters, 7/19/23; PolitiFact, 6/9/21; Agence France-Presse, 3/3/25; Bluesky, 4/21/25; NPR, 2/14/22; Morning Coffee with Dr. T, 10/1/25]
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Former Infowars host David Knight decried Trump’s deal: “We gave tens of billions of dollars to [Pfizer] in order for them to produce the poisoned bioweapon that Trump is so proud of.” Knight also criticized Trump for praising Bourla for Pfizer’s COVID vaccine during the announcement, claiming that “there wasn’t a pandemic. There was a bioweapon, and he did a great job with the COVID that he put out there on everybody.” [The Daily Beast, 12/22/20; The David Knight Show, 10/1/25]
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Podcaster Emerald Robinson, who has been described by The Washington Post as a “covid conspiracy theorist,” said that “many MAGA supporters and MAHA supporters are feeling betrayed” with Trump’s deal, suggesting it would “blow up the MAHA-MAGA coalition.” Robinson is a former Newsmax correspondent with a reported history of “repeatedly posting blatant misinformation about Covid-19 vaccines” on social media, and she gave Kennedy a “B+” for his performance as HHS secretary in September. During her coverage of the Pfizer deal, Robinson also claimed that the company had “developed the most dangerous of all COVID shots.” [The Washington Post, 11/2/21; CNN, 11/10/21; Twitter/X, 9/25/25; LindellTV, The Absolute Truth with Emerald Robinson, 10/1/25]
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Writer Karen Kingston, a former Pfizer employee who has spread vaccine misinformation, defended aspects of Trump’s deal but said “the optics are poor” and called it a “gut punch.” Kingston previously defended Kennedy for “uphold[ing] his legal duties as HHS Secretary by reviewing vaccine safety data from US databases.” On Robinson’s show, Kingston also said that she still wished “the military would come in and arrest” Bourla over the COVID-19 vaccine. [Snopes, 8/6/21; Science Feedback, 10/9/21; Media Matters, 1/22/22; Twitter/X, 11/21/24; LindellTV, The Absolute Truth with Emerald Robinson, 10/1/25]
