Really? Or could it be that he’s actually proud of the result of his efforts and maybe just a little emotionally invested in ways that help keep the rose colored glasses on? Both are perfectly ordinary human stuff, btw.
He frankly seems to have believed Fauci and company, trusted them when they, like too many, were doing everything they could to manipulate the situation to their own economic or ideological or political advantage … or just to somehow harm Trump and the country.
There are several vaccines, not, as the headline implies, just one. Fauci did not develop any of them.