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Fauci expressed disillusionment with 'rambling, crazy' Trump in journal

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Diary entries released by a Republican senator in an attempt to damage Anthony Fauci also show the former top US government science adviser's growing disillusionment with Donald Trump in the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic, branding the president 'rambling', 'crazy', 'desperate', 'bumbling', 'incompetent', 'an idiot', 'a true embarrassment', 'totally nuts' and 'truly an obnoxious adolescent'. On 22 May, Fauci wrote that Trump is 'getting out of control in pushing to open up the country and get the economy back before election day. He is desparate [sic]. This is all about re-election.' By March 2021, having watched Trump attempt to retain power despite electoral defeat in a way that reminds him 'historically of Hitler', Fauci writes: 'He is truly an obnoxious adolescent.' Fauci does seem to have been proud of his newfound celebrity. On 13 July 2020, his relationship with Trump rapidly souring, he turned to his diary. 'Major, Major show of support for me for multiple and varied sectors,' he writes. 'Most peo[p]le expressing outrage that the trump administration woud [sic] be so bumbling and incompetent to try to discredit the most credible scientist in the world.'