{"id":1077426,"date":"2021-12-02T16:43:41","date_gmt":"2021-12-02T21:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1077426"},"modified":"2021-12-02T16:43:43","modified_gmt":"2021-12-02T21:43:43","slug":"biden-says-he-jokes-with-his-wife-that-by-all-appearances-fauci-is-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-says-he-jokes-with-his-wife-that-by-all-appearances-fauci-is-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Says He Jokes With His Wife That, By All Appearances, Fauci Is President"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-says-he-jokes-with-his-wife-that-by-all-appearances-fauci-is-president%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1077426&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>President Joe Biden said he jokes with First Lady Jill Biden that Dr. Anthony Fauci is \u201cthe president,\u201d during his remarks Thursday at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).<\/p>\n<p>Biden, who traveled to the NIH to share his plan to combat COVID-19 during the winter, began his remarks by recalling a previous trip to the NIH in February, praising doctors and researchers for the work they\u2019ve done to \u201csave lives\u201d and \u201ccreate vaccines\u201d during the pandemic. He then added how medical professionals have continued giving him medical advice, as new developments surrounding the virus, namely the Omicron variant, begin to grip the country.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Biden delivers remarks on winter plan to combat COVID\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AFn6wNjhL18?start=43&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve seen more of Dr. Fauci than I have my wife,\u201d Biden laughed. \u201cWe kid each other, but hey, look who\u2019s president? Fauci. But all kidding aside, I sincerely mean it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fauci, who serves as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in addition to being Biden\u2019s chief medical advisor on COVID-19, has been <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/02\/cnn-praises-anthony-fauci-rare-source-honesty-emails-published\/\">praised<\/a> by the media for his role in fighting the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to appearing on the July 2020 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/dr-anthony-fauci-is-an-instyle-cover-starjust-as-he-should-be\">cover<\/a> of InStyle Magazine, Fauci was profiled in a <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/22\/dr-anthony-fauci-now-movie-star\/\">documentary<\/a> shown in theaters and on streaming service Disney+ and was also the subject of a <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/03\/21\/simon-schuster-childrens-book-anthony-fauci\/\">children\u2019s book<\/a> published by Simon &amp; Schuster.<\/p>\n<p>But despite much of the praise he\u2019s received, Fauci and his position on COVID-19 have not been popular among conservatives. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/02\/22\/im-over-dr-fauci-meghan-mccain-biden-admin-remove-him\/\">(RELATED: \u2018I\u2019m Over Dr. Fauci\u2019: Meghan McCain Says Biden Admin Should \u2018Put Someone Else In Place That Maybe Does Understand Science\u2019)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Republican Sens. Ted Cruz of Texas and Rand Paul of Kentucky <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/11\/29\/ted-cruz-rand-paul-anthony-fauci-represent-science-claim\/\">criticized<\/a> Fauci\u2019s assertion that he \u201crepresents science\u201d following a November appearance on \u201cFace the Nation,\u201d with Paul stating Fauci has \u201cignored natural immunity\u201d to the virus and Cruz saying Fauci has \u201cexercise[d] authoritarian control over millions of Americans.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/02\/joe-biden-white-house-coronavirus-response-anthony-fauci-cdc-walensky-personal-emails-muzzled\/\">(RELATED: Biden Claimed Trump \u2018Muzzled\u2019 Fauci \u2014 But Emails Reveal Fauci Said Otherwise)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Along with his COVID-19 policies, Fauci has been criticized for his ties to <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/04\/anthony-fauci-niaid-georgia-beagle-experiment\/\">experimentation<\/a> involving beagles and <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/04\/04\/nih-gain-of-function-anthony-fauci-review-board-wuhan-lab\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">gain of function research<\/a> at Wuhan Institute of Virology, and has been accused of lying to Congress after he said he was unaware of NIAID funding the gain of function research at the Wuhan lab.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden said he jokes with First Lady Jill Biden that Dr. Anthony Fauci is \u201cthe president,\u201d during his remarks Thursday at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).Biden, who &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1077426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/263"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1077426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1077426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1077426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1077426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}