It can be interpreted many ways. I think he was throwing the idea out there and gauging the reaction. Then depending on the overall reaction would be how they went about it. As you can see in the comments it was not popular. Since it was not popular he could roll back the idea and say it was about distribution of all those who want it. The other important thing is we were being lied to about the rate of death at that time. The storage was another concern at that time keeping it at -70(I'm not 100% positive at exact).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5O4bZ842qU&t=4s https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-roundtable-donating-plasma/
Trump: Well, when we have the vaccine, we have the military all lined up, and the military is going to be doing it in a very powerful manner. These are people that don’t usually do vaccines. They do soldiers and they do lots of other things that, frankly, are more difficult. But we have our general, and logistically, he’s all set.
Tony, do you want to say something about that?
Dr. FAUCI: That is correct. As the vaccine rolls out, we’ll be getting them distributed. And as you probably have heard, we are going to make sure that we do it in an equitable way and it’s representative of the populations who need it the most. And we have the standard way that we determine that, with the ACIP working with the CDC.
But Dr. Collins and Dr. Redfield have put together, with the National Academy of Medicine, a group that will fortify that decision-making process so that we’re making sure that we’re very fair and equitable in getting the vaccine distributed properly.
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