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Trump retweets Fauci meme criticizing his coronavirus response
Source: The Guardian
Trump retweets Fauci meme criticizing his coronavirus response
President goes on retweeting tear, relaying messages in support of response – and shares footage of Fauci putting his hand to his head
Martin Pengelly
@MartinPengelly
Tue 24 Mar 2020 15.54 GMT
Last modified on Tue 24 Mar 2020 16.04 GMT
Donald Trump went on a retweeting tear on Monday, relaying messages in support of his coronavirus response and controversial plan to “reopen” the US economy well before public health experts expect the outbreak to have subsided.
He managed, however, to apparently commit something of a “self-own”, retweeting footage of Dr Anthony Fauci at a White House briefing last week which most thought showed Fauci expressing clear concern at the president’s words.
The footage shows Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, reacting to Trump’s reference to “the deep state department” during a briefing last Friday.
The deep state conspiracy theory holds that a permanent government of bureaucrats and intelligence officials exists to bring Trump down. The former White House counsellor Steve Bannon, one of the first propagators, has said it is for “nutcases”.
Dr Fauci was seen to look at Trump, smile ruefully and then rub his brow and jaw.
The tweet retweeted by the president on Tuesday, by “professional Mexican and taco enthusiast” Laura Martínez, said, “Dr Fauci is all of us” – in a clear reference to a feeling of being exasperated at Trump’s antics and misinformation: something Trump appears to have misunderstood.
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President goes on retweeting tear, relaying messages in support of response – and shares footage of Fauci putting his hand to his head
Martin Pengelly
@MartinPengelly
Tue 24 Mar 2020 15.54 GMT
Last modified on Tue 24 Mar 2020 16.04 GMT
Donald Trump went on a retweeting tear on Monday, relaying messages in support of his coronavirus response and controversial plan to “reopen” the US economy well before public health experts expect the outbreak to have subsided.
He managed, however, to apparently commit something of a “self-own”, retweeting footage of Dr Anthony Fauci at a White House briefing last week which most thought showed Fauci expressing clear concern at the president’s words.
The footage shows Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, reacting to Trump’s reference to “the deep state department” during a briefing last Friday.
The deep state conspiracy theory holds that a permanent government of bureaucrats and intelligence officials exists to bring Trump down. The former White House counsellor Steve Bannon, one of the first propagators, has said it is for “nutcases”.
Dr Fauci was seen to look at Trump, smile ruefully and then rub his brow and jaw.
The tweet retweeted by the president on Tuesday, by “professional Mexican and taco enthusiast” Laura Martínez, said, “Dr Fauci is all of us” – in a clear reference to a feeling of being exasperated at Trump’s antics and misinformation: something Trump appears to have misunderstood.
Link to tweet
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/mar/24/trump-fauci-meme-coronavirus-response
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