Dr. Anthony Fauci has now joined the slew of public figures -- from George Clooney to Barack Obama to Tom Brady -- who have publicly taken to reading tweets directed at them. One caveat: They're not mean!
But unlike the aforementioned bold-faced names, the chief medical advisor to President Joe Biden didn't read the vaccine-focused tweets on "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" He read them at the White House -- and Olivia Rodrigo, who visited the White House on Wednesday to support the administration's efforts to get young people vaccinated.
"Happy Man Crush Monday to this hero," read Fauci. "Thank you, Dr. Fauci for all your hard work. We appreciate your intelligence, bravery and compassion. We love you."
"Well, that's very nice," said Fauci, adding he had no idea what "Man Crush Monday" was. Rodrigo explained, "People would post a picture of their boyfriends and they'll be like, oh Man Crush Monday, this is why I love you. So it's a big deal."
"Whatever it takes," said Fauci. "If Man Crush Monday makes you get vaccinated, go for it!"
Another tweet Fauci read: "I had a dream that I got the COVID-19 vaccine and met Dr. Fauci afterwards. I told him that I bought his bobblehead and he was super cool about."
Rodrigo, meanwhile read a tweet directed at her: "Did anyone else spend their Friday afternoon driving to their second vaccination and crying to Olivia Rodrigo. And was that just me?" Her response? "Hey, I love that. I'm so happy that I'm soundtracking your vaccine appointment. That's great. That makes me very happy."
Another tweet Fauci read: "People made fun of these Dr. Fauci prayer candles, but we got my dad one for his birthday in November. So he lit it every night and everyone in my immediate family was fully vaccinated. So maybe there's something there."
Another tweet Rodrigo read: "I need to see Olivia go live in concert in the first row. Get your vaccines."
Fauci chimed in, "I want to go to a concert for sure. For sure. If I tell you the greatest concert that I haven't been to, you're going to faint. The reason is I'm so old. It goes back to the late 1950s at the Paramount Theater in New York City, which was a Motown concert with the Temptations, the Four Tops—I'm a really old guy."
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