Trump responded later Monday, during a brief question-and-answer session with reporters at the White House, by deflecting any discussion of Fauci in particular but reiterating his most absurd and discredited statements about the "great progress" the United States is making against the COVID-19 pandemic.
In response to a reporter who pressed him on his repeated claims that the coronavirus is not actually increasing in the United States, and that the rising number of positive cases is the product of greater testing, Trump replied, "We're doing great with testing... We've done 45 million tests. If we did half that number, we'd have half the cases."
Even this piece of stupidity was not the crudest statement coming from the Trump administration. That prize goes to Admiral Brett P. Giroir, assistant secretary of health and human services, who was the White House-approved spokesman making the rounds of the Sunday television talk shows. Asked on "Meet the Press" about the White House attack on Fauci, Giroir said, "Dr. Fauci is not 100 percent right, and he also doesn't necessarily -- and he admits that -- have the whole national interest in mind... He looks at it from a very narrow public health point of view."
These are words that should be branded on his backside. Trump, of course, according to the sycophantic admiral, has "the whole national interest in mind." In other words, he upholds the global position of American imperialism and the profits of the giant corporations, which are being undermined as long as workers cannot be herded back into the factories and other workplaces because of the threat of COVID-19.
As for Dr. Fauci, his "very narrow public health point of view" consists of the sincere desire to save millions of people from a serious illness that means death for hundreds of thousands, if not many more, and significant health consequences even for many of those who are fortunate enough to survive. In a contest between those two outlooks, there is little doubt which would be preferred by the working people who make up the vast majority of the country.
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