One White House correspondent is claiming that Donald Trump’s jealousy toward the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Dr. Anthony Fauci, has reached a crescendo in a rather public sort of way.
According to Jonathan Lemire, White House reporter for the Associated Press, Donald Trump has been positively fuming in private over his public health adviser’s high approval ratings among the American public — not to mention Dr. Fauci’s recent testimony to Congress in which he explained that the United States is far from prepared for a widespread lockdown lift, pretty much in direct contradiction of Trump’s recent claims.
“That’s the real tension right now we’re seeing within the White House and the broader administration,” Lemire explained. “What happened with the president’s comments yesterday sort of boiled to the surface private frustrations he and his inner circle have had now for some weeks, according to our reporting, about Dr. Fauci.”
“The president has long been a little leery of the media attention and positive headlines Fauci has garnered,” he continued. “We know one of the fastest ways to get on the wrong side of the president is to get more media attention than him — ask Steve Bannon about that, even Jared Kushner at times. In this case, it is Dr. Fauci. More than that, they feel, fairly or not, Dr. Fauci sometimes moderates his answers depending on the venue. He sometimes a little more sticks to what the president wants to say when he’s giving an interview with conservative media, and then less so with other networks.”
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According to Lemire, Trump’s anger and envy reached a fever pitch last night as he met with reporters.
“Now I think Dr. Fauci’s defenders, and there are many, will say he’s not playing politics at all, that he is just sticking to the guidelines,” the AP reporter stated. “That’s what we heard in his Senate testimony the other day. He rankled the president, you could see it in his body language, you could hear it in his voice, according to our reporting, he was angry the night before, after Fauci’s testimony, suggesting it was undercutting his arguments, and his push to get Americans back to work.”
“He is trying to lead by example today,” Lemire concluded. “He is going to Pennsylvania, a key battleground state. He’ll be touring a mask factory there, paying tribute to the workers there. It is his second trip after one to Arizona last week, you know, sort of saying, ‘Look, the White House is getting back to normal, so should you.’ Though, we, of course, have COVID infections in the West Wing itself.”
In the end, I fully believe that it will be Trump’s unchecked, manic emotions that get the best of him. But go ahead and tell me again how we shouldn’t have a woman president because they’re “too emotional.”
You can watch the clip of Lemire’s interview here:
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