Trump Unloads On Fauci After Diary Revelations, Then Reveals ‘God’ Theory

President Donald Trump unloaded on Dr. Anthony Fauci on Tuesday morning, declaring that the former top doc’s star power plummeted whenever he was in the room with him.

“When he was with Biden, he was like the God. When he was with me, he wasn’t even close,” Trump told Fox News host Steve Doocy.

The president said he was never under the controversial doctor’s spell, revealing he would have kicked Fauci to the curb if he knew then what he knows now, claiming that he barely listened to him anyway.

Trump blasted Fauci’s flip-flops during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, calling out the dizzying, back-and-forth guidance on face coverings.

“He started off saying, ‘Don’t wear them.’ Then he said, ‘Wear them.’ Then he said, ‘Don’t wear them.’ And I lost a lot of respect for him during the period of time,” Trump said, mocking the mixed signals. “I said, ‘What are you doing?'”

The president’s comments come after Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Rand Paul (R-KY) released a trove of previously private Fauci diaries ahead of Fauci’s expected testimony this Wednesday. The diaries appear to show that Fauci misled Congress about the coronavirus fatality rate in the early days of the pandemic

On Tuesday, Trump slammed Fauci’s obsession with locking down the nation, boasting that he stepped in as a “federalist” to let state governors call the shots instead of bowing to Washington bureaucrats.

While blue-state governors locked their doors and threw away the keys, Trump pointed out that red states opened up fast — and fared far better for it.

“He wanted everything closed,” Trump insisted. “It just turned out that closing wasn’t so good… Some of the states that fared the worst in terms of the spread were actually closed. OK, explain that. Nobody can explain that.”

Trump said he always maintained COVID came straight out of a Wuhan lab, which mainstream media and Fauci initially pooh-poohed. He touted his administration’s success with Operation Warp Speed and cranking out ventilators for the world.

As for Fauci, Trump claimed that he made sure to distance himself from the career bureaucrat. While he didn’t hate the man personally, Trump said he couldn’t stand his policies, taking a parting shot at President Biden for rolling out the red carpet for the doctor.

Not only did Biden treat Fauci like royalty, Trump noted, but he handed him a high-ranking post and a presidential pardon to boot, saying, “I didn’t agree with what he was saying or what he was doing. And when Biden came in, he inherited him and he gave him a tremendously high position. And then he gave him a pardon.”