Dr. Fauci got his wish. Earlier in the month, the Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases joked that he wanted actor Brad Pitt to play him on SNL, and that’s what exactly happened this weekend.

For this Saturday’s in-home edition of SNL, Brad Pitt served as a guest where he played Dr. Anthony Fauci. In a grey wig and wire-frame glasses, Pitt (as Fauci) fact checked all of Trump’s ridiculous statements he has said to the American people about the coronavirus, including his most recent remarks about suggesting we try to get “light inside the body” or pursue some way of injecting disinfectant. “When I hear things like ‘the virus can be cured if everyone takes the Tide Pod challenge,’ I’ll be there to say, ‘Please don’t.’”

Pitt also mocked Trump’s promise early on in the coronavirus pandemic that “everybody gets a test” and that those tests are “beautiful.” “I don’t know if I would call the tests beautiful, unless your idea of beauty is having a cotton swab tickle your brain,” Pitt says in the clip. “Also, when he said, ‘everyone can get a test,’ he meant almost no one.”

Pitt then delivered a message to the real Dr. Fauci and all the first responders in America, thanking them for all their hard work. Check out the hilarious, yet true clip (below).

Quarantine got everyone going a little bit stir-crazy, especially since most major sporting events have been put on hold for the time being. Re-runs of classic games have brought a bit of nostalgia into every sports fan but even Trump was adamant about bringing sports back to the world of entertainment. Though many of Trump’s claims since the pandemic began came across as ambitious, this one might not be as far fetched as some would think.

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Dr. Fauci confirmed this in a recent interview on Snapchat. Speaking to Peter Hamby, Fauci explained that sporting events would return but they’d have to be vigilant in hosting these events. Essentially, spectators wouldn’t be allowed inside of the stadium and each sporting league would have to make sure each player and staff member would have to undergo frequent testing.

“Nobody comes to the stadium. Put them in big hotels, wherever you want to play. Keep them very well surveilled — have them tested like every week and make sure they don’t wind up infecting each other or their family and just let them play the season out,” he said. “People say, ‘Well you cant play without spectators.’ I think you’ll probably get enough buy-in from people who are dying to see a baseball game, particularly me!”

With the WWE considered an “essential service” in the state of Florida, Trump recently put together a sports advisory group to help open up the country’s economy. NBA’s Adam Silver, MLB’s Rob Manfred, NFL’s Roger Goodell, and UFC’s Dana White, as well as the WWE’s Vine McMahon, are among the 16 sports figure included in the White House’s Great American Economic Revival Industry Group.

The White House was forced to respond today after Trump alluded to firing Dr. Anthony Fauci, an advisor on the Coronavirus task force. Now, it’s no secret that Trump a) lets tweets fly at any given moment and b) has been combatting the “fake news media” since he even stepped into office. Sometimes, when his urge to tweet and disdain for the media meet, it causes a bit of a stir in the world.

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The latest example of this is Trump’s response to a tweet from DeAnna Loraine that essentially called for Dr. Anthony Fauci to be fired from the COVID-19 task force. Though Trump, at the time, fueled the speculation that Fauci might be getting the boot, the White House has firmly denied such a thing. In fact, they stated that Trump’s response was merely towards the narrative that he wasn’t acting quick enough at the beginning of the pandemic.

“This media chatter is ridiculous – President Trump is not firing Dr. Fauci. The President’s tweet clearly exposed media attempts to maliciously push a falsehood about his China decision in an attempt to rewrite history,” Hogan Gidley, White House rep, said. “It was Democrats and the media who ignored Coronavirus choosing to focus on impeachment instead, and when they finally did comment on the virus it was to attack President Trump for taking the bold decisive action to save American lives by cutting off travel from China and from Europe. Dr. Fauci has been and remains a trusted advisor to President Trump.”

Dr. Anthony Fauci has been one of the leading experts on the Coronavirus and what we can all do to help stop the spread of the virus. Of course, there has been a lot of push back from President Donald Trump, who has undermined Dr. Fauci at seemingly every turn. Hundreds of thousands of people in the United States have been infected with the virus and it looks like the country could be hit with over one million cases, very soon.

Dr. Fauci was recently on CNN where he spoke about the President's efforts and whether or not he could have acted sooner and in turn, save lives. The doctor was very honest about how the President knew weeks before any lockdowns that this could be a major problem, although the president didn't act.

In retaliation, a journalist took to Twitter with a call to fire Dr. Fauci. Trump saw the tweet and retweeted it, providing some commentary of his own and getting in his fake news bag.

Now that we’re several months deep into the coronavirus pandemic, hindsight has once again proven to be twenty-twenty, especially when it comes to the initial outbreak stages. It’s been widely argued that the United States was late to the party on this one, with prominent news outlets and even President Donald Trump himself initially suggesting that the virus was nothing more than a Democrat-fueled hoax. At this point, the grim reality has since set in, with COVID-fatalities climbing and the economy at risk of collapse.

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So what, if anything, could have been done to prevent this? It’s been a question on many-a-mind, from the laypeople holed up in a quarantined state to the experts working in consultary roles. Today, The Washington Post reported that Donald Trump even contemplated allowing the coronavirus to spread across the United States so that a herd-immunity could be developed at a faster rate. 

Apparently, the suggestion arose during a March 14th Situation Room meeting. “Why don’t we let this wash over the country?” asked Trump, according to the testimony of two sources reportedly present. As it happens, the person he asked was Dr. Anthony Fauci, who has since become one of the leading public experts during this ongoing crisis. Upon understanding exactly what Trump was suggesting, Fauci countered that “many” lives would be lost as a result of such a strategy. It would appear that Trump indeed decided to heed Fauci’s counsel, though given that he has since retweeted a veiled threat to can the doctor, perhaps that relationship has since eroded further.

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Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Dr. Anthony Fauci has seen viral fame since being thrust into the spotlight as the man updating the United States on the COVID-19 outbreak. CNN asked Fauci what the odds are that he makes an appearance on Saturday Night Live and who should play him.

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"I have no idea," he laughs. "I hope not." The interviewer offers up Brad Pitt and Ben Stiller as options to play him. "Brad Pitt, of course," he remarks.

SNL has been off the air for the last month during the Coronavirus pandemic but is set to return on April 11. The show is using the hashtag "#SNLAtHome" to promote the premiere.

"The virus kind of decides whether it’s favorable to open or not. I would want to see us clearly and strongly going in the right direction," Fauci says in the interview.

Fauci went on to note that Easter is not an excuse to cut down on the social distancing guidelines: "Even though we’re in a holiday season, now is no time to back off."

As of April 11, there have been 525,816 confirmed cases of Coronavirus in the United States and over 20,000 deaths nationwide.