Dr. Anthony Fauci has been a household name since the covid-19 pandemic gave Americans a rude awakening in March, easily becoming the most trusted member of the Trump administration’s coronavirus task force. But his frankness about the gravity of the deadly virus—which has killed 137,000 Americans thus far—and the measures everyone must take to protect themselves and each other has never jibed with President Trump’s ignorant optimism or his denial of covid-19’s true toll.
So it is surprising that Fauci hasn’t gotten the boot by now. Despite months of rumors about friction between the two, Fauci is still here, relaying new information and safety guidelines to the public whenever the White House loosens his muzzle. But that hasn’t prevented Trump from retweeting Fauci’s skeptics on Twitter.
From Politico:
On Monday morning, [Trump] retweeted messages from the politically conservative former game show personality Chuck Woolery — who served stints hosting “Wheel of Fortune” and “Love Connection” — which lamented the “most outrageous lies” being spread about the coronavirus pandemic.
“Everyone is lying. The CDC, Media, Democrats, our Doctors, not all but most, that we are told to trust. I think it’s all about the election and keeping the economy from coming back, which is about the election. I’m sick of it,” Woolery wrote in a tweet shared by the president.
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Trump also retweeted a message from Mark Young, Woolery’s co-host on his “Blunt Force Truth” podcast, which asked: “So based on Dr. Fauci and the Democrats, I will need an ID card to go shopping but not to vote?”
But it’s not just Trump’s Twitter fingers churning out the drama. The White House and Trump surrogates have been going at it too (emphasis ours):