Anthony Fauci says he will leave the White House if Donald Trump becomes president in 2024



Dr. Anthony Fauci said that he intends to resign his post as the White House chief medical adviser if former President Donald Trump attains the presidency once again in 2024.

Implying that the Trump administration mishandled the COVID-19 pandemic, Fauci took the opportunity to get in some jabs while on national television, Fox News reported.

While speaking with Jim Acosta on CNN Sunday evening, Fauci laughed off the suggestion that he would remain in his post should Trump return as president, Newsweek reported.

Fauci said, “If you look at the history of what the response was during the administration, I think, you know, at best, you can say it wasn’t optimal. And I think, just, history will speak for itself about that.”

When Acosta clarified that Fauci, in fact, meant that he would not return to his post in a second Trump administration, Fauci said, “Right. For sure, yeah.”

However, it is no secret that Trump and Fauci frequently clashed during the first year of the COVID pandemic. They found themselves at odds when it came to hydroxychloroquine, testing strategies, when to reopen businesses, instituting travel restrictions from China, and many more issues.

On a campaign conference call in October 2020, just days before the presidential election, Trump said, “People are tired of hearing Fauci and all these idiots, these people. Every time he goes on TV, there’s a bomb, but there’s a bigger bomb if you fire him.”

Trump has not committed to running for president in 2024 but has very publicly flirted with the possibility of running once more to seek the Republican Party’s nomination for president.

In February at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference, Trump suggested that the Democratic Party will soon experience a series of high-profile losses at the national level.

He said, “They’re going to find out the hard way starting November 8 and even more so starting November 2024.”

In 2021, after Joe Biden entered the White House, Fauci said that it was “liberating” to work under the new president.

Fauci said, “I can tell you I take no pleasure at all being in a situation of contradicting the president, so it was really something that you didn’t feel you could actually say something and there wouldn’t be any repercussions about it.”

He continued, “The idea that you can get up here and talk about what you know, what the evidence and science is, and let the science speak – it is somewhat of a liberating feeling.”

​‘Dr. Fauci, give me that ouchie!’: Skepticism over absurd rap reveals who's been the butt of the joke



After a video went viral of Alex Stein serenading folks at a Dallas City Hall open mic session with his own rap hailing the COVID-19 vaccine, the burning question became: Is this guy for real?

It was a minute and a half of unadulterated cringe, featuring lyrics such as: “Vaccinate me, in my thong. Vaccination, right or wrong. Dr. Fauci, give me that ouchie!”

With people like Francis Collins, who decided to share his own little coronavirus ditty, the nurses invited to sing at the White House, and whatever this is, it's embarrassingly clear why it became a question of whether to take Stein's performance as comedy or as serious messaging to be counted as yet another cringe-worthy failed attempt at being relatable to humans with a pulse.

BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales of "The News & Why It Matters" was admittedly unsure of how seriously to take his performance.

“What the hell?!” was Gonzales’ initial reaction, which was not far off from what others were thinking, as well.

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Curiosity plagued Gonzales, so she invited Stein as a guest on her show to get answers.

“This is where we’re at in society,” Stein said. “There’s so many TikTok nurses doing ICU dances, then you see in the White House Joe Biden has a bunch of people in scrubs singing songs, then it’s totally believable,” Stein added, referring to his own comical performance as something that was easily misconstrued as some form of serious message he was trying to sell.

“The world is so absurd, my actions [made people think] ‘oh, somebody WOULD do that,'” Stein continued. “I mean, Francis Collins, the NIH Director, the top guy, is playing little songs on his guitar like that. What it is, is it’s mocking US … it’s total mockery from the people in power.”

Adding to the mockery in the past few days, the U.S. Capitol announced it would be lifting it’s mask mandate just in time for the State of the Union address, the CDC would now be ditching most mask requirements, and Impact Research issued a memo complete with “strategic thoughts” for Democrats that began, "It's time for Democrats to take credit for ending the COVID crisis phase of the COVID war.”

Watch Alex Stein's latest appearance at Dallas City Hall, complete with a puppet, here.

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Columnist: Fauci is playing a ‘double game’ to DISTRACT us from REAL issue

Columnist: Fauci is playing a ‘double game’ to DISTRACT us from REAL issue

Fauci casts another shadow on recovery, says US won’t return to normal until 'end of 2021'



Dr. Anthony Fauci recently put a damper on the recovery efforts taking place in many states across the country by suggesting that the United States will not return to normal until well into next year.

What did he say?

In a conversation with MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell Friday afternoon, the nation's leading infectious disease expert said "normality" will not be achieved until a vaccine for COVID-19 is first developed and then widely distributed. Fauci said he's confident a vaccine will be available by the end of this year or early 2021.

"By the time you mobilize the distribution of the vaccine and get a majority or more of the population vaccinated and protected, that's likely not going to happen until the end of 2021," he said. "If you're talking about getting back to a degree of normality prior to COVID, it's going to be well into 2021, towards the end of 2021."

The comments from Fauci come as many state and local municipalities across the country are beginning to ease lockdown measures and reopen venues such as movie theaters, gyms, salons, and restaurants for indoor dining, a reality that worries Fauci.

"Being indoors absolutely increases the risk [of transmission]," he said. "I am concerned when I see things starting indoors, and that becomes more compelling when you move into fall and winter season."

In the same interview, Fauci also poo-pooed a recent claim made by President Trump during a White House press briefing, in which the president said, "I really do believe we're rounding the corner" on the virus.

When asked by Mitchell to respond to Trump's remarks, Fauci, said, "I'm sorry, but I have to disagree with that because if you look at the thing that you just mentioned, the statistics, Andrea, they're disturbing. We're plateauing at around 40,000 cases a day and the deaths are around 1,000."

In a news report, CNBC noted that "daily new cases in the U.S. have fallen substantially since new national cases peaked in late July, when the country reported nearly 70,000 new cases in a day, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University. Over the past seven days, the country has reported an average of about 35,200 new cases per day, down more than 12% compared with a week ago."

What else?

The exchange highlights the stark difference with which the two leaders relay information to the American people regarding the virus.

For example, this week Trump became embroiled in controversy after audio was released from discussions he had with journalist Bob Woodward in which the president acknowledged he downplayed the pandemic so as to not "create a panic."

In defending his words, Trump said he "had to show calm" in the face of hysteria surrounding the virus in the early days of the outbreak.

Fauci, to his credit, contradicted the claim made by some that Trump deceived the American people. The move was somewhat surprising since Fauci normally opts for a more worst-case-scenario outlook on the pandemic.