Trump on Fauci's high approval ratings: 'Nobody likes me'

[webfact]

Trump on Fauci's high approval ratings: 'Nobody likes me'

By Steve Holland

 

U.S. President Donald Trump arrives to address a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) task force news briefing at the White House in Washington, U.S., July 28, 2020. REUTERS/Carlos Barria

 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump groused on Tuesday about medical expert Anthony Fauci's high approval ratings and joked that "nobody likes me" as he struggles to improve his standing with voters for his handling of the coronavirus pandemic.

 

"It can only be my personality," said Trump.

 

Fauci, an infectious disease expert who is on Trump's coronavirus task force, is one of the most trusted people in government and many Americans listen to his advice diligently on how to protect themselves from infection.

 

Trump, on the other hand, has drawn criticism over his handling of the pandemic, putting him in jeopardy of losing the Nov. 3 presidential election to Democrat Joe Biden.

 

The subject of Fauci came up at a news conference where Trump defended his support for malaria drug hydroxychloroquine as a hedge against the virus. Trump said he felt the drug worked "in the early stages."

 

Most public health experts say hydroxychloroquine should not be used to treat the coronavirus because it could lead to heart and other problems.

 

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration last month revoked its emergency-use authorization for hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19 after several studies cast doubt on its effectiveness.

 

Trump said he and others in his administration deserved plaudits for their handling of the virus, not just Fauci and another prominent member of the task force, Deborah Birx.

 

"He's working with our administration and for the most part we have done pretty much what he and others, Dr. Birx and others, who are terrific, recommended. And he's got this high approval rating. So why don't I have a high approval rating and the administration with respect to the virus? We should have a very high (approval rating)," Trump said.

 

"So it sort of is curious, a man works for us, and yet they're highly thought of and nobody likes me. It can only be my personality," he said.

 

The recent rise in U.S. deaths and infections has dampened early hopes that the country was past the worst of a crisis that has decimated businesses and put millions of Americans out of work. Four U.S. states in the South and West reported one-day records of coronavirus deaths on Tuesday. The national death toll is almost 150,000.

 

Fauci has been a subject of debate within the White House for months because he is quite frank in saying where he agrees and disagrees with the president.

 

Trump has said repeatedly that Fauci advised him he did not have to close down travel with China, where the outbreak originated, early this year when the scope of the pandemic was not yet clear, and that he did not accept the advice.

 

White House chief of staff Mark Meadows publicly chided Trump trade adviser Peter Navarro for writing an opinion article attacking Fauci.

 

(Reporting by Steve Holland; Writing by Alexandra Alper; Editing by Jonathan Oatis and Peter Cooney)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2020-07-29

 

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[Tug]

Well it could be that we have lost more Americans than in the revolutionary war the war of 1812 and the civil war combined due to your failed leadership in the pandemic or perhaps when people who know what they are doing try to help(Fauci)you try to discredit them or maybe the tanked economy the 40 million unemployed geese I don’t know exacerbating race relations might have something to do with it but yea it’s a safe bet that the majority of Americans absolutely despise you

[bendejo]

I had a buddy who used to play that, "nobody likes me, I'm such a loser."  And it was supposed to work as the person he says it to is supportive and says "hey, you're a real cool guy!" etc.  I never gave in, and he never gave up, went on for years and he didn't get the message.  As for DT:

1 hour ago, webfact said:

"nobody likes me" [...]

"It can only be my personality," said Trump.

Let it not be said I have always disagreed with him.

His whole defaming initiative on Fauci is really, really stupid. 

 

 

[tribalfusion001]

The reduced stimulus payments of $200 instead of $600 should be interesting in the next few weeks. Housing collapse on the way followed by economic collapse with the "2nd" waves in Europe and further lockdowns.

[ChouDoufu]

of course the people suffering a pandemic look up to a medical doctor with decades of experience, as opposed to a narcissistic carnival barker.

 

doesn't help when trump tries to make himself the center of attention during the virus briefings, has his staff leak opposition research against fauci, and gives wild and zany "sarcastic" orders to his medical experts to "look into" injecting bleach into the lungs or bringing uv light into the body...somehow....

 

the latest tweet heralding the coming of his new medical savior, "doctor" stella immanuel.....oh. my. lady. gaga!

 

https://www.thedailybeast.com/stella-immanuel-trumps-new-covid-doctor-believes-in-alien-dna-demon-sperm-and-hydroxychloroquine

 

if i didn't know better, i'd swear trump knows he's going to lose in november and is trying his gosh-darndest to get amendment 25, section 4'd.

[opalred]

wow/ the first time he hasnt lied

[Chomper Higgot]

"So it sort of is curious, a man works for us, and yet they're highly thought of and nobody likes me. It can only be my personality,"

 

Who knew?!

 

 

There’ll be so much [whining], you’ll get sick of [whining].

 

 

[bendejo]

2 hours ago, webfact said:

nobody likes me

The great existential question asked by the late Richard Pryor:  "is it something I said?"

 

 

[J Town]

What's to like about 45?

[mtls2005]

"Nobody like me."

 

I'm just imagining POTUS 44 saying such a thing.

 

 

Meanwhile trump lied about throwing out the first pitch at the yankees home-opener (like that game will be played) because he was jealous of the attention Fauci got at the Nats game.

 

And Fauci's Tops baseball card is the most popular card EVER. Man, will trump be angry.

 

 

[spiekerjozef]

2 hours ago, webfact said:

his handling of the coronavirus pandemic.

What handling? He just could have stayed on the golf course, same result.

[Berkshire]

2 hours ago, webfact said:

"So it sort of is curious, a man works for us, and yet they're highly thought of and nobody likes me. It can only be my personality," he said.

"Mr. President....and I'm just spitballing here...but could it be that you're constantly saying stupid sht, bringing up harebrained ideas, and endlessly lying to the American people?"  

[J Town]

1 minute ago, spiekerjozef said:

What handling? He just could have stayed on the golf course, same result.

Would have been better. His misrepresentation of the facts, his politicization of the mask, his anti-science agenda is directly responsible for deaths in the US.

[scammed]

19 minutes ago, spiekerjozef said:

What handling? He just could have stayed on the golf course, same result.

he should have stayed on the golf course, at most banning sending infected to nursing homes like NY.

the shut down was dumb, and the resultant necessity for aid after the shut down was dumb but a consequence of the shut down

[mtls2005]

53 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

"So it sort of is curious, a man works for us, and yet they're highly thought of and nobody likes me. It can only be my personality,"

 

Expect him to break out "You'll be Back", from Hamilton.

 

You'll be back, soon you'll see
You'll remember you belong to me
You'll be back, time will tell
You'll remember that I served you well
Oceans rise, empires fall
We have seen each other through it all
And when push comes to shove
I will send a fully armed battalion to remind you of my love!

 

 

[edwinchester]

"nobody likes me"

 

Simple, stop being a <deleted>.

[mtls2005]

Meanwhile...

 

Trump’s New Favorite COVID Doctor Believes in Alien DNA, Demon Sperm, and Hydroxychloroquine

 

The president is pushing the coronavirus theories of a Houston doctor who also says sexual visitations by demons and alien DNA are at the root of Americans’ common health concerns.

 

Before Trump and his supporters embrace Immanuel’s medical expertise, though, they should consider other medical claims Immanuel has made—including those about alien DNA and the physical effects of having sex with witches and demons in your dreams. 

 

https://www.thedailybeast.com/stella-immanuel-trumps-new-covid-doctor-believes-in-alien-dna-demon-sperm-and-hydroxychloroquine

 

 

 

[Eric Loh]

7 minutes ago, mtls2005 said:

Meanwhile...

 

Trump’s New Favorite COVID Doctor Believes in Alien DNA, Demon Sperm, and Hydroxychloroquine

 

The president is pushing the coronavirus theories of a Houston doctor who also says sexual visitations by demons and alien DNA are at the root of Americans’ common health concerns.

 

Before Trump and his supporters embrace Immanuel’s medical expertise, though, they should consider other medical claims Immanuel has made—including those about alien DNA and the physical effects of having sex with witches and demons in your dreams. 

 

https://www.thedailybeast.com/stella-immanuel-trumps-new-covid-doctor-believes-in-alien-dna-demon-sperm-and-hydroxychloroquine

 

 

 

I hope Trump take up her invite and have a quack to quack interface. 

[J Town]

23 minutes ago, Eric Loh said:

I hope Trump take up her invite and have a quack to quack interface. 

That woman is in every sense of the term a nut case. The sad issue is that 45 retweets indiscriminately and irresponsibly. Her words will cost lives ("masks don't work") and that 45 spreads deadly information is unconscionable. Until 45 brought her to the forefront, nobody cared. Now that she's getting her 15 minutes of infamy, people will lose loved ones and their blood will be on 45's already crimson hands.

 

 

Edited July 29, 2020 by J Town
grammar

[paddypower]

the first Person of Mass Destruction.

Let's get this out there: Trump's newest best friend, a doctor who promotes:

• the harmful effects of having sexual relations with demons and witches while dreaming;

• the alleged use of alien DNA in various medicines;

• and the production of a vaccine to inoculate people against being religious.

''I thought her voice was an important voice. But I know nothing about her," the president said of the Houston based doctor. I don't know which country she comes from''.

(Gulp!!! Houston is a another country?) .

''But she said that she's had tremendous success with hundreds of different patients.

And I can tell you this: She was on air, along with many other doctors —they were big fans of hydroxychloroquine, and I thought she was very impressive," Mr Trump told reporters of Ms Immanuel at a briefing on the coronavirus pandemic on Tuesday.

 

[Sujo]

It seems don jnr had his twitter account suspended for, wait for it....spreading fake news.

[Tie Dye Samurai]

1 hour ago, mtls2005 said:

And Fauci's Tops baseball card is the most popular card EVER. Man, will trump be angry.

 

 

If Trump has a Tops card I think I will put it in the spokes of my bicycle and ride down beach rd....

[mtls2005]

No clue why they won't let this hydroxychloroquine thing go?

 

Is it a personal need to defend trump, or just a crazy need for a "cure"?

 

Why would they "trust" hydroxy, but not a vaccine?

 

I guesss I never quite got the snake oil/cult thing?

 

 

 

 

[geriatrickid]

2 hours ago, tribalfusion001 said:

The reduced stimulus payments of $200 instead of $600 should be interesting in the next few weeks. Housing collapse on the way followed by economic collapse with the "2nd" waves in Europe and further lockdowns.

It will be a bloodbath. It doesn't matter if there isn't a lock down because consumers will be too scared to turn out in numbers to support urban business centers. Payrolls will be slashed.  Even small town America will suffer. Biden will be walking into a mess that will take a generation  to dig out of.  The 15-30 year olds will be facing difficult times for their next 10 years.

[geriatrickid]

1 hour ago, mtls2005 said:

Meanwhile...

 

Trump’s New Favorite COVID Doctor Believes in Alien DNA, Demon Sperm, and Hydroxychloroquine

 

The president is pushing the coronavirus theories of a Houston doctor who also says sexual visitations by demons and alien DNA are at the root of Americans’ common health concerns.

 

Before Trump and his supporters embrace Immanuel’s medical expertise, though, they should consider other medical claims Immanuel has made—including those about alien DNA and the physical effects of having sex with witches and demons in your dreams. 

 

https://www.thedailybeast.com/stella-immanuel-trumps-new-covid-doctor-believes-in-alien-dna-demon-sperm-and-hydroxychloroquine

 

 

 

I thought this was a farce until I read up on this crazy cameroonian evangelical pastor who was trained in the Cameroon as a pediatrician.

 

trump embraced her crazy claims  praising her as 'very impressive'. 'I thought her voice was an important voice, but I know nothing about her.' 

 

Seriously disturbing. My heart goes out to the White House  Covid group of Fauci, Birx, Adams, Collins, Hahn, Marks, Redfield and Giroir who have put country  first and accepted the public  humiliation and possible professional liability litigation that will  come once the people of the USA learn of the extent of the mismanagement and errors made by Trump and his coterie. trump is literally killing the USA, and hopefully  the GOP puts on its big boy pants and stops him.

 

Edited July 29, 2020 by geriatrickid

[rvaviator]

3 hours ago, ChouDoufu said:

of course the people suffering a pandemic look up to a medical doctor with decades of experience, as opposed to a narcissistic carnival barker.

 

doesn't help when trump tries to make himself the center of attention during the virus briefings, has his staff leak opposition research against fauci, and gives wild and zany "sarcastic" orders to his medical experts to "look into" injecting bleach into the lungs or bringing uv light into the body...somehow....

 

the latest tweet heralding the coming of his new medical savior, "doctor" stella immanuel.....oh. my. lady. gaga!

 

https://www.thedailybeast.com/stella-immanuel-trumps-new-covid-doctor-believes-in-alien-dna-demon-sperm-and-hydroxychloroquine

 

if i didn't know better, i'd swear trump knows he's going to lose in november and is trying his gosh-darndest to get amendment 25, section 4'd.

Absolutely brilliant video of that quack from Nigeria .... How she can be on the medical registry in US ... Unbelievable .. but then nothing is unbelievable anymore.  I would say that now the more unbelievable it sounds .. Someone will also sign up and support ...

[mtls2005]

Still waiting on that promised "powerful strategy" for combating Covid-19.

 

Where oh where did it go?

 

Oh right, that was so "last week".

 

 

 

 

[metisdead]

A baiting troll post has been removed. 

[ChouDoufu]

32 minutes ago, geriatrickid said:

I thought this was a farce until I read up on this crazy cameroonian evangelical pastor who was trained in the Cameroon as a pediatrician.

 

trump embraced her crazy claims  praising her as 'very impressive'. 'I thought her voice was an important voice, but I know nothing about her.' 

 

Seriously disturbing. My heart goes out to the White House  Covid group of Fauci, Birx, Adams, Collins, Hahn, Marks, Redfield and Giroir who have put country  first and accepted the public  humiliation and possible professional liability litigation that will  come once the people of the USA learn of the extent of the mismanagement and errors made by Trump and his coterie. trump is literally killing the USA, and hopefully  the GOP puts on its big boy pants and stops him.

 

 

yep.  'I thought her voice was an important voice, but I know nothing about her.'  that pretty much sums up trump.

 

he knows nothing about her, where she's from, her credentials, what she espouses, her bat**** crazy conspiracy theories, nothing at all.  it's enough he heard her say something about hydrochloroquine that supports his own bat**** crazy ideas.

 

yep.  the leader of the free world KNOWS NOTHING ABOUT HER, but he's gonna publicize her as a "leading doctor" with advice we should all follow.

 

good to know i don't have to see a doctor about that cyst.  just need to stop having dream sex with demons.

 

thank you mr. president!  winning!

 

 

[mtls2005]

Where is last week's medical expert:

 

Chuck Wollery, who told us this Covid thing was a hoax? Oh, right, caring for his son who contracted Covid-19?

 

When he's not shilling for Emu Oil.