By summer, the president had all but stopped speaking with Fauci, or “Dr. Doom” as the Trump team called him, and was looking for someone to reinforce his own preconceptions. At one point, Trump promoted on Twitter a “very impressive” doctor who shared his faith in hydroxychloroquine and skepticism about masks—without realizing that she also blamed various ailments on demon sperm, believed medical treatments were being developed from alien DNA, and preached about the dangers of having sex with witches in your dreams.[45]
