The chapter in which Dr Anthony Fauci wrote about his relationship with former US president Donald Trump in his new book is called ‘He loves me, he loves me not’. The former chief medical advisor to the White House who was blasted by the then president Trump for his ominous forecasts regarding the Covid pandemic said his equation with Trump was complicated.
Appearing on The Late Show, Dr Fauci said initially they gelled pretty well and there was a kind of vibe that they used to get each other. “In the very beginning we got along very well. I write in the book I don’t know whether it’s because two guys from New York, him from Queens, me from Brooklyn, that we kind of understood each other and we got along very, very well early on. It was only when what he was saying and began to say — because he wanted so much for this thing to go away that he was saying things that were incorrect,” Fauci said. His confession that he was not comfortable speaking out against Trump also came during the show.
“Although the people who attacked me think I did it to sort of tear him down, it was not,” Fauci said. “Because I have a great deal of respect for the presidency of the United States… I had to contradict him publicly because he was saying things that were not correct. Once that happened, then both he and mostly his staff, not so much the president but the staff, I became anathema. Persona non grata.”
Fauci’s autobiography “On Call: A Doctor’s Journey in Public Service” has the details of Fauci’s last conversation with Donald Trump. It was for 15 minutes amid the raging pandemic soon after Fauci gave an interview in which he made some dire predictions. “Tony, I really like you … but what the f— are you doing? You really need to be positive … you constantly drop bombs on me,” Trump said.
Appearing on The Late Show, Dr Fauci said initially they gelled pretty well and there was a kind of vibe that they used to get each other. “In the very beginning we got along very well. I write in the book I don’t know whether it’s because two guys from New York, him from Queens, me from Brooklyn, that we kind of understood each other and we got along very, very well early on. It was only when what he was saying and began to say — because he wanted so much for this thing to go away that he was saying things that were incorrect,” Fauci said. His confession that he was not comfortable speaking out against Trump also came during the show.
“Although the people who attacked me think I did it to sort of tear him down, it was not,” Fauci said. “Because I have a great deal of respect for the presidency of the United States… I had to contradict him publicly because he was saying things that were not correct. Once that happened, then both he and mostly his staff, not so much the president but the staff, I became anathema. Persona non grata.”
Fauci’s autobiography “On Call: A Doctor’s Journey in Public Service” has the details of Fauci’s last conversation with Donald Trump. It was for 15 minutes amid the raging pandemic soon after Fauci gave an interview in which he made some dire predictions. “Tony, I really like you … but what the f— are you doing? You really need to be positive … you constantly drop bombs on me,” Trump said.
