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dr. Deborah Birx previously said thousands of deaths from COVID-19 could have been reduced.
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Trump responded, saying he’s done a “great job with the pandemic,” says a new book.
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The former president criticized Birx, saying, “The only thing she did right was scarves.”
Donald Trump was not too friendly with criticism from his former White House COVID response coordinator, Dr. Deborah Birx, and took a shot at the doctor instead, according to a new book.
After Birx said in TV interviews and to congressional investigators last year that thousands of deaths during the pandemic “could have been significantly reduced or reduced” once the US crossed its first 100,000 deaths by May 2020, Trump rejected the statement, suggesting that his response infallible, journalists Peter Baker and Susan Glasser reported in their new book, “The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021.”
“I’ve done a great job with the pandemic,” the former president said in an interview with the authors.
Trump also stated that he never respected Birx, the authors wrote, saying, “All she did right was scarves,” referencing Birx’s fashion piece in press conferences and other public appearances.
The scarves were so ubiquitous that an Instagram page called “deborahbirxscarves” was devoted to the doctor’s fashion accessory, garnering more than 33,000 followers.
Birx was not the only person in Trump’s orbit to be ignored when it came to the former president’s response to the pandemic.
Melania Trump also urged her husband to take the pandemic seriously, the book says.
“‘You’re ruining this,'” she recalls telling her husband,” the book reads. “‘This is serious. It’s going to get really bad, and you have to take it more seriously than you take it.” He’d just sent her away. ‘You’re worrying too much,’ she remembered him saying. ‘Forget it.'”
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