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https://globalnews.ca/news/7405711/donald-trump-anthony-fauci-disaster-covid-19/
U.S. President Donald Trump complained about the entertainment value of COVID-19 and Dr. Anthony Fauci, the top infectious disease expert at the White House, in a call with campaign staff on Monday.
The president claimed that Americans are getting “tired of” hearing about the coronavirus, which has killed nearly 220,000 Americans to date — more than any other nation in the world. Trump also dismissed Fauci’s coronavirus response as a “disaster,” though the president himself has spent several months downplaying the science and attempting to wish the virus away.
“People are tired of COVID. I have these huge rallies,” Trump said Monday. “People are saying whatever. Just leave us alone. They’re tired of it. People are tired of hearing Fauci and all these idiots.”
Trump made the remarks on a call with his campaign team, which is facing an uphill battle in the polls against Joe Biden, the Democrats’ nominee for president in the Nov. 3 election. Several reporters were allowed to listen in on the call.
Trump also complained that “there’s always a bomb” when Fauci speaks in public. He then lamented that it would be a “bigger bomb if you fire him,” according to several reporters who were on the campaign call.
“Fauci is a disaster. If I listened to him, we’d have 500,000 deaths,” Trump said on the campaign call, according to CNN. He did not explain how social distancing and masks, which Fauci has recommended, might have doubled the current death toll.
U.S. President Donald Trump complained about the entertainment value of COVID-19 and Dr. Anthony Fauci, the top infectious disease expert at the White House, in a call with campaign staff on Monday.
The president claimed that Americans are getting “tired of” hearing about the coronavirus, which has killed nearly 220,000 Americans to date — more than any other nation in the world. Trump also dismissed Fauci’s coronavirus response as a “disaster,” though the president himself has spent several months downplaying the science and attempting to wish the virus away.
“People are tired of COVID. I have these huge rallies,” Trump said Monday. “People are saying whatever. Just leave us alone. They’re tired of it. People are tired of hearing Fauci and all these idiots.”
Trump made the remarks on a call with his campaign team, which is facing an uphill battle in the polls against Joe Biden, the Democrats’ nominee for president in the Nov. 3 election. Several reporters were allowed to listen in on the call.
Trump also complained that “there’s always a bomb” when Fauci speaks in public. He then lamented that it would be a “bigger bomb if you fire him,” according to several reporters who were on the campaign call.
“Fauci is a disaster. If I listened to him, we’d have 500,000 deaths,” Trump said on the campaign call, according to CNN. He did not explain how social distancing and masks, which Fauci has recommended, might have doubled the current death toll.
