Dr. Anthony Fauci says he was not invited to Tuesday's White House coronavirus briefing

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Source: CNBC

White House advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci said he was not invited to Tuesday's White House briefing on the coronavirus pandemic — the first such briefing in months.

"I was not invited up to this point and I'm assuming I'm not going to be there," Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said during an interview on CNN.

Fauci has faced criticism in recent weeks from President Donald Trump and other administration officials surrounding his response to the pandemic.

In a scathing op-ed published last Tuesday, Trump's trade advisor Peter Navarro criticized Fauci, saying he "has been wrong about everything I have interacted with him on." Similarly, during an interview earlier this month with Fox News' Sean Hannity, Trump said, "Dr. Fauci's a nice man, but he's made a lot of mistakes."

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Trump can't stand having someone smarter than him around.

[yuiyoshida]

1. one of the other medical advisors was told not to come into the room

apparently she was sent off to the side so TRUMP could hog the spotlight like the pig he is.

[groundloop]

2. "Trump can't stand having someone smarter than him around" - so basically he hates the world.

[thesquanderer]

3. re: "Trump can't stand having someone smarter than him around."

Then he should probably never leave the bathroom.

[SunSeeker]

4. If Fauci wasn't here, then it wasn't a coronavirus briefing. It was a Trump campaign event. nt

[dhol82]

5. Good point.

[onetexan]

6. Spot on. Soon as i heard the Idiot was restarting these briefings again, i knew it was not for good

reason. I knew he was going to use it as a campaign stump. No worries, most Americans know Dr. Fauci is the authority on Covid, & a whole lot more smarter & more popular than all of the Idiot's covid staff combined, Pence included.

[crimycarny]

7. OMG--duh!

Reading your comment the lightbulb turned on. THAT’S why he having these briefings again, so he can repeat his Rose Garden “press conference” (campaign event). I mean, I know that should be totally obvious but even after all these months I still sometimes fall into the trap of thinking what a logical person would do when trying to understand Trump’s motivations.

The coronavirus briefings were awful for Trump, so why in the world would he want to start them up again (I was asking myself). Duh, he wants airtime to bash Biden.

[hadEnuf]

8. Bingo.

You got that right.

[scarletwoman]

9. "Trump can't stand having someone smarter than him around." That's not actually it. What he can't

stand is having someone more popular around.

Remember, he is already completely confident that he is smarter than everyone else, so there's no way that would be his consideration in leaving Fauci out of the briefing.

It's totally because Fauci gets better poll numbers than he does.

[riversedge]

10. Trump wanted this to be his comeback from hell. Alone-he is the hero.

Clips will be shown for his reelection ads.

[Rhiannon12866]

11. In other words, it had nothing to do with the pandemic, it was a Trump "rally."

[Rhiannon12866]

12. Anthony Fauci on CNN: I was not invited to Trump's coronavirus briefing

Dr. Anthony Fauci says that he was not invited to President Donald Trump's coronavirus briefing and said he talked last to the president four days ago.

[dalton99a]

13. "My primary consultant is myself, because I have a very good brain

and I've said a lot of things"