President Donald Trump bashes Dr. Anthony Fauci

CNBC's Eamon Javers reports on comments President Trump made about Dr. Anthony Fauci. For access to live and exclusive video from CNBC subscribe to CNBC PRO: https://cnb.cx/2NGeIvi

President Donald Trump on Monday said the government’s top pandemic fighter, Dr. Anthony Fauci, is a “disaster” — and possibly an “idiot” — as he claimed that Americans are “tired of” Covid-19, even as the number of coronavirus cases continued spiking in much of the United States.

“People are tired of Covid,” Trump said in a call with the staff of his reelection campaign against former Vice President Joe Biden, the Democratic nominee.

“People are tired of hearing Fauci and all these idiots, all these idiots who got it wrong,” Trump said on the call.

Trump also claimed that “every time [Fauci] goes on television there’s always a bomb,” an apparent reference to Fauci’s media appearances, which included him telling CBS’s “60 Minutes” on Sunday night that he was “absolutely not” surprised that Trump himself caught the coronavirus.

But Trump also offered an explanation for why he has not fired Fauci as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, despite his unhappiness with him.

“There’s a bigger bomb if you fire him,” Trump said. “This guy’s a disaster.”

The president at another point called Fauci a “nice” man, but in a backhanded way.

“He’s been here for 500 years,” Trump said of Fauci, who is 79 years old.

Fauci is a civil servant who, under the law, cannot be directly fired by the president. And Fauci could appeal any dismissal ordered by the president through the political appointees who oversee him.

After this article was first published, Trump insulted Fauci with two tweets, which referenced Fauci’s extremely errant ceremonial “first pitch” at a Washington Nationals baseball game earlier this year.

“Dr.Tony Fauci says we don’t allow him to do television, and yet I saw him last night on @60Minutes, and he seems to get more airtime than anybody since the late, great, Bob Hope,” Trump wrote. “All I ask of Tony is that he make better decisions. He said ‘no masks & let China in’. Also, Bad arm!”

“P.S. Tony should stop wearing the Washington Nationals’ Mask for two reasons. Number one, it is not up to the high standards that he should be exposing. Number two, it keeps reminding me that Tony threw out perhaps the worst first pitch in the history of Baseball!,” Trump wrote.

Eduardo Silva, a spokesman for the Democratic National Committee “War Room,” in a statement said, “Trump claimed that ‘people are tired of COVID,’ and he’s right — they’re tired of him ignoring experts and prolonging a crisis that has already taken more than 219,000 American lives.”

“For months, Trump has lied to the American people about the coronavirus, and now, as cases surge and hospitals are again being pushed to the brink, he’s clearly learned nothing from the pain and suffering he’s already caused,” Silva said. “Americans across the country are paying the price for Trump’s disastrous response to the coronavirus, and the more he doubles down on this reckless strategy, the more they’ll oppose his failed leadership.”

During a campaign event Sunday, Trump made fun of Biden by imitating him saying he would “listen to the scientists” about the pandemic.

“If I listened totally to the scientists, we would right now have a country that would be in a massive depression,” Trump then said at the rally in Carson City, Nevada. “We’re like a rocket ship.”

Trump also criticized Democratic governors of several states for enacting measures designed to thwart a second wave of coronavirus cases.

“Get the places open, let’s go,” Trump said.

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