Trump Dismisses Fauci’s Warning Against Reopening Schools: ‘I Totally Disagree’

President Donald Trump and Anthony Fauci, director of the NIH National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, attend a meeting at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland on March 3, 2020.... President Donald Trump and Anthony Fauci, director of the NIH National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, attend a meeting at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland on March 3, 2020. (Photo by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images) MORE LESS
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President Donald Trump on Thursday rejected White House COVID-19 task force official Dr. Anthony Fauci’s assertion during a Senate hearing that schools could not be expected to reopen by fall.

“Anthony is a good person, very good person,” Trump told Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo. “I’ve disagreed with him. When I closed the border to China, he disagreed with that, and then ultimately he agreed.”

He argued that “we have to open our schools” because “young people are very little [sic] affected by this.”

“I totally disagree with [Fauci] on schools,” Trump said.

The remarks largely echo the President’s dissenting response to Fauci on Wednesday, saying that the doctor’s warning was “not an acceptable answer, especially when it comes to schools.”

During a hearing with the Senate Health Education, Labor and Pensions Committee on Tuesday, Fauci told lawmakers that “the idea of having treatments available or a vaccine to facilitate re-entry of students into the fall term would be something that would be a bit of a bridge too far.”

“Even at the top speed we’re going,” he added.

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  1. We know. He rejects science, and medicine. He lies, and sells insane treatments. This is nothing new.

  2. When I closed the border to China…

    Notwithstanding the fact that the majority of cases in NYC were traced to travel in Europe. Please. Trump is so full of crap…and I’ll take Dr. Fauci’s recommendations over Mango Mussolini’s fever dreams and “stuff I saw on FOX” any day.

  3. As Neil deGrasse Tyson often points out, science doesn’t rely on your belief system. Science is true whether you believe it or not.

    Another day, another tantrump.

  4. Which border do we share with China again?

  5. So wait… is Trump trying to claim that Fauci wanted to send kids back to school and he argued against it?

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