President Donald Trump said the government’s top coronavirus pandemic expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci, is a “disaster.”
President Donald Trump said on Monday that the government’s top fighter against the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Anthony Fauci, is a “disaster”, and possibly an “idiot”, as he claimed that Americans are now “tired of” COVID-19, although the number of coronavirus cases in the United States has continued to increase.
“People are tired of COVID,” Trump said on a call with the members of staff of his presidential re-election campaign against the Democratic nominee, former Vice President Joe Biden.
“People are tired of hearing Fauci and all these idiots, all these idiots who got it wrong,” Trump said on the call.
This comes after a man from the United States has caught COVID-19 twice, with the second infection being far more dangerous than the first, say doctors, and required hospital treatment after his lungs not being able to get enough oxygen throughout his body.
“Dr.Tony Fauci says we don’t allow him to do television, and yet I saw him last night on 60Minutes, and he seems to get more airtime than anybody since the late, great, Bob Hope,” Trump wrote. “All I ask of Tony is that he make better decisions. He said ‘no masks & let China in’. Also, Bad arm!”
“P.S. Tony should stop wearing the Washington Nationals’ Mask for two reasons. Number one, it is not up to the high standards that he should be exposing. Number two, it keeps reminding me that Tony threw out perhaps the worst first pitch in the history of Baseball!,” Trump wrote.
Eduardo Silva, a spokesman for the Democratic National Committee “War Room,” in a statement said, “Trump claimed that ‘people are tired of COVID,’ and he’s right — they’re tired of him ignoring experts and prolonging a crisis that has already taken more than 219,000 American lives.”
“For months, Trump has lied to the American people about the coronavirus, and now, as cases surge and hospitals are again being pushed to the brink, he’s clearly learned nothing from the pain and suffering he’s already caused,” Silva said.
“Americans across the country are paying the price for Trump’s disastrous response to the coronavirus, and the more he doubles down on this reckless strategy, the more they’ll oppose his failed leadership.”
This comes after the new COVID-19 lockdown restrictions will take Wales back to the same restrictions that were introduced back in March, with most businesses in the country shutting down, and people being told to stay at home and to work from home if possible.
Senate Health Committee Chairman Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., said in a statement, “Dr. Fauci is one of our country’s most distinguished public servants. He has served six presidents, starting with Ronald Reagan.”
“If more Americans paid attention to his advice, we’d have fewer cases of COVID-19, and it would be safer to go back to school and back to work and out to eat,”
Biden campaign spokesman Andrew Bates fired back at Trump’s claim that the country would be worse off economically if Trump had listened to scientists, tweeting, “This is tellingly out of touch and the polar opposite of reality.”
