The diaries detail Fauci’s conversations with Trump Administration officials, governors, world leaders, media appearances and his personal observations as the pandemic unfolded. Related: Time for Covid prosecutions and nothing less, July 27, 2026His BFF apparently was CNN’s Jake Tapper. Fauci’s self-aggrandizing information war also sucked in several officials in the first Trump Administration, the diary entries show. Fauci wrote that Trump was “almost pleading” not to extend the country’s closure beyond the 30-day lockdown extension. According to Fauci, Trump said he was destroying the country and that sports leagues and industry would be devastated by the administration’s recommendations.