Anthony Fauci, the ex-White House chief medical adviser, remembered in his recent book a 15-minute phone call from then-President Donald Trump on November 1, 2020. In the middle of that conversation with Fauci on Air Force One that morning – just two days before Election Day – Trump stated: “Tony, I really like you… but what the f— are you doing?”
The Washington Post said that interviewing Fauci during the pandemic had made Trump upset. The physician cautioned against a renewed surge of Covid-19 cases and called for a change in national response. “You really need to be positive…you constantly drop bombs on me,” wrote Fauci in ‘On Call: A Doctor’s Journey in Public Service’.
Fauci stated in this interview that Biden was taking Covid-19 seriously while Trump’s rallies were crammed with mask-less men and women.
With this discussion, their relationship ended.
“The president was irate, saying that I could not keep doing this to him,” he added.
“He said he loved me but we were in trouble as a nation and I was making it worse. He also claimed that the stock market went up only six hundred points after Phase 1 of vaccine positivity was announced by Moderna when it should have gone up one thousand points therefore costing our nation one trillion dollars,” said Dr.Fauci.
On F bomb, Fauci revealed he had quite a thick skin though being “yelled at by the president of the United States is never fun no matter how much he tells you he loves you.”
There are other instances where similar arguments occurred with Trump according to his memoirs. For instance, during an Oval Office briefing in August 2020 when Fauci told him that dismissing coronavirus tests as useless was wrong; Trump did not listen to him but moved onto something else. Although Republicans became angry at him for advocating social distancing during peak pandemic days gradually he started being identified with anti-Trump sentiments.
