Dr. Anthony Fauci insisted that he maintains a cordial relationship with President Trump even as the nation’s top infectious disease expert would call the President out for spewing falsehoods on the COVID-19 pandemic that has killed more than 320,000 Americans thus far.
With all due respect to the good doctor, is a “New York bond” when your feet are in hardening concrete, but you’re telling jokes with the hit man?
To demonstrate his New Yorkness Trump moved to Florida.
History repeating.
As a tragedy not a farce.
I think most of New York has lost whatever bond that had with Benedict Donnie.
Each of Chiselin’ Trump’s ex-wives: “I had one of those New York bonds with him, too. Don’t worry. It won’t last long.”
I’m guessing a bright guy like Dr. Fauci has the time to Fat Nixon’s White House extraction calculated down to the millisecond.
Ain’t that what New Yorkers do? At least the ones with money, Boca Raton is teeming with them.
That Fauci was able to survive this maladministration, even while publicly disagreeing with tRump is both a testament to his amazingly unflappable temperament, and his YUGE poll numbers.
We are lucky to have him.
Even after Trump griped that “people are tired of hearing Fauci and all these idiots,” Fauci claimed that his rapport with Trump remained friendly.
I think Dr. Fauci is saying he couldn’t get any more upset with Trump than he could at a 4 year old spewing whatever’s topmost on his mind. He recognized Trump’s mental and emotional deficiencies and treated him accordingly on a personal level, always keeping in mind, topmost, his responsibility to the public.
Dr. Fauci. We are the same age. I am stunned by your naivete. But then, I am from Boston.
There’s a fly in that ointment.
Trump lost his legal right to live at Mar-a-Lago because of an agreement he signed in the early 1990s when he converted the storied estate from his private residence to a private club. The legal maneuver could, at long last, force Palm Beach to publicly address whether Trump can make Mar-a-Lago his legal residence and home, as he has been expected to do when he becomes an ex-president after the swearing-in of Joe Biden on Jan. 20.
I’m a native New Yorker and I never felt a bond towards the loser while I lived there and now that I live in the Golden State I know I never will.
I don’t know how it works in Boston but where I come from people don’t always say everything they’re thinking.
Not good. Nawwwwt Good!
Shorter form: I’m from New York, I’m use to dealing with assholes.
That’s pretty universal I think.
For most of us, it’s the ability to tell someone to their face, ‘With all due respect, fuck you’, and mean every word.
But as @davidn points out, for most of NY, the respect due is zilch, and we’re more than fuckin’ done with his ass.
Nah, they’re just the weak ones. My grandfather was sitting on millions when he died at 94, never heard a word from him about moving south.
As a Southerner, I expected unfriendliness in New York. Instead, I found a no-holds-barred, unedited kind of friendliness – quite different from the smooth exterior of many a Southerner that often hides well-buried dislike or contempt. I rather like the New York version.
Yes, and the reason it’s universal is most people don’t want unnecessary trouble. Fauci has been as tactful as possible all along, while pushing back where he had to, and I don’t think that’s necessarily evidence of stunning naiveté or even just mild, everyday naiveté. Might even be more the kind of thing a sophisticated, nimble person might do to get his job done with Trump stomping around like Godzilla. Just saying.