Fauci has a huge wall in his home office that is filled with portraits of himself

It appears that Dr. Anthony Fauci, the president’s outgoing top medical adviser and the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), is a little embarrassed that The New York Times saw his gigantic wall filled with portraits of himself in his home office.

The career bureaucrat doesn’t want his critics To see this as further evidence that he’s a narcissist.

Fauci, whose December 30th birthday was his last day of public service, recently spoke with the Times to give an interview. As pointed out by The Washington Examiner’s Jerry Dunleavy, the opening line of the article in question read, “The walls in Dr. Anthony S. Fauci’s home office are adorned with portraits of him, drawn and painted by some of his many fans.”

The first sentence of the NYT profile. “The walls in Dr. Anthony S. Fauci’s home office are adorned with portraits of him, drawn and painted by some of his many fans.”https://t.co/e0IInGMg1T

— Jerry Christmas 🎅🏼🎄 (@JerryDunleavy) December 30, 2022

The Times article’s author observed that “Dr. Fauci seemed a little uncomfortable with people knowing about the pictures.”

“He said that previously, when they were captured on camera, the ‘far right’ attacked him as an ‘egomaniac,’” Sheryl Gay Stolberg was the author. “If someone goes to the trouble of sending him a portrait of himself, he said, he would ‘feel like I’m disrespecting them’ if he discarded it.”

Yet Fauci should know that there are plenty of other reasons that Americans would view him as a self-obsessed individual — and it’s not just the “far Right.”

For example, perhaps the most revealing comment of Fauci’s came when he argued that COVID critics were “attacking science” when he was asked about his decisions during the pandemic.

Fauci will be in 2021 told NBC, “A lot of what you’re seeing as attacks on me, quite frankly, are attacks on science, because all of the things that I have spoken about, consistently from the very beginning, have been fundamentally based on science.”

“Sometimes those things were inconvenient truths for people, and there was pushback against me,” He said it at the time. “So if you are trying to, you know, get at me as a public health official and a scientist, you are really attacking not only Anthony Fauci, you are attacking science.”

Not everybody sees it that way — including one of the smartest and most successful men in the entire world.

Musk posted the following tweet in reaction to the Wall of Fauci revelation. “creepy.” He laughed, “maybe he just loves looking at science.”

Perhaps he simply loves science?

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 30, 2022

Musk, it is important to note, is not “right-wing” either.

Musk would be correct, and Fauci loves looking at them. “science” — aka himself. Americans saw his home office through the documentary. “FAUCI” Disney+.

So you don’t have too, I just finished the Fauci documentary for Disney+. Here’s what I thought was the defining image of Fauci working in his home office under a large-than-lifesize oil painting portrait. pic.twitter.com/hugD4EgLY8

— Matt, Pre-School Diploma (@statomattic) October 10, 2021

There were other portraits and bobbleheads of himself in his own office — yet he insists he is just a humble public servant who is happy to talk to anybody who will listen.

Much ink has been spread about Fauci, and his errors are well known — but Fauci insists that he has nothing to hide from a GOP-controlled House of Representatives.

For now, though, he’ll retire as the highest-paid federal employee You can walk away with an annual pension of $417,667 and never have to work again. Just remember, if you criticize him at all then you’re “far-Right” For and against “science.” And he insists he isn’t political.

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