Welcome to Gaslight.gov: Trump Hijacks Covid.gov to Peddle Lab-Leak Lies

By Bob Robertson| July 2025

Remember when Covid.gov was a place you could go to find testing info, vaccine updates, and emergency health resources?

Yeah—not anymore.

In the latest Orwellian plot twist, Donald Trump’s White House has replaced the nation’s official COVID resource website with a full-blown conspiracy page pushing the long-debunked “lab leak” theory. Type in covid.gov now, and you're magically redirected to whitehouse.gov/lab-leak-true-origins-of-covid-19 —a digital fever dream cooked up by MAGA loyalists, cherry-picked intelligence, and some serious Fauci derangement syndrome.

Because apparently, when you’ve mismanaged a pandemic so badly that it kills over a million Americans, your best bet is to just rewrite history.

The “Science” According to Trump

The new site parrots claims from a highly partisan December 2024 GOP House report, alleging that COVID-19 emerged from a lab accident in Wuhan, thanks to U.S.-funded research gone rogue.

They call it “gain-of-function.”
We call it “gain-of-fiction.”

Let’s be clear: The scientific community overwhelmingly supports a natural zoonotic origin. Peer-reviewed studies have traced early outbreaks to Wuhan’s seafood markets, not secret biolabs. Multiple global investigations—yes, even under Trump’s own previous administration—found no credible evidence of a lab leak.

But facts don’t matter in MAGAland. Just vibes, rage, and a chance to scapegoat Dr. Fauci again.

From Public Health to Political Theater

Once a site dedicated to saving lives, Covid.gov is now a glorified Fox News chyron in webpage form. Instead of N95 guidance, you get innuendo. Instead of vaccine facts, you get whitewashed Trump propaganda that paints him as the Cassandra of pandemics—ignored, noble, and conveniently innocent.

In this telling, Trump wasn’t the guy who suggested injecting bleach or slow-walked the federal response. No, no—he’s the misunderstood prophet, silenced by Fauci and persecuted by “Big Science.”

Insert laugh track here.

Let’s Be Blunt: This Is Gaslighting

This isn't just historical revisionism. It’s dangerous disinformation dressed up in federal branding.

• It erases the deaths, delays, and damage caused by Trump’s COVID negligence.
• It undermines science and global cooperation, feeding distrust in medical institutions.
• And it redirects a public health resource into a glorified "Told ya so!" page for a man who spent the pandemic hawking hydroxychloroquine and rage-tweeting from a bunker.

Final Thoughts: The Virus Isn’t the Only Thing That Mutated

What we’re witnessing is the mutation of truth in real time. When a public health website gets hijacked for partisan score-settling, it’s not just petty—it’s pathological. Trump’s regime isn’t interested in public safety. It’s interested in public amnesia.

So the next time someone tells you Trump was “right about the lab leak,” point them here.
Not to WhiteHouse.gov.
To Gaslight.gov, formerly known as Covid.gov.

We haven’t forgotten.
And we’re not letting them rewrite the ending.

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