Donald Trump has been mocked for retweeting comments from a former game show host who regrets expertly recommended coronavirus recommendations.
The president highlighted Chuck Woolery’s comments on Monday.
“The most outrageous lies are those of Covid 19,” Woolery tweeted to his 686,000 followers.
‘Everyone is lying. The CDC, the media, the Democrats, our doctors, not all, but the majority, that we are told to trust.
“I think it’s all about the elections and preventing the economy from coming back, that it’s about the elections.” I’m sick of this.’
Chuck Woolery, photographed in 2015, found his criticism of scientists retweeted by the president.
Woolery, the 79-year-old original host of Wheel of Fortune, weighed in on the scientific debate
Donald Trump, photographed Monday, retweeted Chuck Woolery’s thoughts
His comments were liked 87,000 times, retweeting Trump’s 83.4 million followers.
Woolery, 79, was the original presenter of Wheel of Fortune, presenting the show from 1975 to 1981.
He organized a series of dating shows, and his career culminated in 2007 with Game Show Network’s Lingo.
In response to the uproar, Woolery tried to clarify his views, adding that his son had tested positive for COVID-19.
He said he simply wanted to emphasize the need for “the best information to make the best decisions.”
Woolery on Monday afternoon expanded his views on COVID and science
Woolery said he was simply pointing out the need for accurate data before making decisions.
However, critics of Trump were surprised by the fact that the president sided with a 1980s game host on experts like the head of the infectious disease center, Dr. Anthony Fauci.
Fauci is said to have increasingly angered the President with his refusal to endorse some of Trump’s outlandish claims and theories.
Fauci has continued to issue severe warnings about the risks of reopening the country amid the pandemic, prompting the White House to issue lists of when Fauci made mistakes.
“This idea that our president is following the advice of someone like Chuck Woolery, or promoting these kinds of words of the type whose biggest claim to fame is being the host of Love Connection or a name in a Beastie Boys song is simply a Insanity, ‘said epidemiologist Anne Rimoin, in an interview with MSNBC.
Ben Sommers, a doctor who teaches at Harvard’s TH Chan School of Public Health, said the retweet was harmful.
“When the president says the guidance is wrong and supports the view that these public health experts are lying, it makes it incredibly difficult for the public to know what to do,” he told The Washington Post.
“It erodes our government’s long-term ability to provide one of its basic objectives, which is to protect public safety.”
Beto O’Rourke, a former Texas congressman and Democratic presidential candidate, was desperate for the tweet.
Woolery’s career as a game presenter started in the 1970s and ended in 2007
In 2002 Woolery organized a contest to find out who had the ‘most beautiful armpits’
“This virus is out of control, without leadership from our governor, without leadership from the president, who, as you mentioned, is tweeting Chuck Woolery’s health guide in place of Dr. Fauci,” he said.
White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany asked about the retweet, defended the president’s criticism of Fauci, and reinforced the president’s attacks on government health experts.
He accused ‘some rogue people’ at the CDC of misleading the public and defended Trump’s Woolery retweet by saying he was calling scientists for getting involved in politics.
“In general, the notion of the tweet was to point to the fact that when we use science, we have to use it in a way that is not political,” he said.
But the retweet was derided on social media by critics of Trump.
Ted Lieu, a Democratic congressman from California, reacted angrily to Trump’s retweet
Ted Lieu, a California congressman, defended the scientists and accused the president of deciding to “stab him in the back during a pandemic.”
He later tweeted: ‘Dear @chuckwoolery,’ with a link to an LA Times account from a hospital chaplain.
Bryan Behar, an Emmy-nominated writer, tweeted: “We now have TWO game show hosts giving medical advice to the nation.”
Grant Stern, an activist for Occupy Democrats, simply told his 100,000 followers: “Trump values Chuck Woolery’s opinion of Dr. Fauci.”
Emmy-nominated writer Bryan Behar poked fun at the president for the retweet
Democratic activist Grant Stern told his 100,000 followers that the retweet was a depressing signal.
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