Former President Donald Trump boomeranged between hurling F-bombs and cooing loving words in conversations with his top medical adviser during the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Anthony Fauci reportedly reveals in his new book.
Trump told Fauci he would win the 2020 election in a "f---ing landslide" no matter what "all these other f---ing people think." He added that Fauci had cost the U.S. economy “one trillion f---ing dollars," and that President Joe Biden was a "f---er" whose "a--" he was going to "kick," the Daily Beast's coverage on Fauci's new book reports.
"He said he loved me, but the country was in trouble, and I was making it worse," Fauci reportedly writes.
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Fauci details a career serving U.S. presidents as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases from 1984 to 2022 and facing health crises such as the AIDS epidemic that exploded under President Ronald Reagan.
Trump was unlike any of the other six presidents he had served, writes Fauci as he details "the brunt of the president’s rage.”
He would “announce that he loved me and then scream at me on the phone," writes Fauci. “Let’s just say, I found this to be out of the ordinary."
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In comparison, Fauci describes Biden as “a no-nonsense person guided by integrity and empathy” who “clearly was in charge."
Trump, Fauci writes, was frequently furious over the impact the COVID-19 pandemic was having on his political reputation ahead of the election he would lose to Biden then seek to discredit, the Daily Beast reports.
In their last conversation on Nov. 1, 2020, Trump called Fauci at home from Air Force One, according to the Daily Beast.
“What the f--- are you doing?" Trump reportedly said. "You really need to be positive. You constantly drop bombs on me.”
Fauci's book, "On Call: A Doctor’s Journey in Public Service," will be available for purchase next week.
