Trump Says HHS Secretary Azar Doing Excellent Job, Has No Plans To Fire Him

President Donald Trump on Sunday dismissed reports that Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar could soon be replaced, saying he was doing an excellent job as the nation continues to reel from the coronavirus pandemic.

Reports that H.H.S. Secretary @AlexAzar is going to be fired by me are Fake News. The Lamestream Media knows this, but they are desperate to create the perception of chaos & havoc in the minds of the public. They never even called to ask. Alex is doing an excellent job!

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Reports that H.H.S. Secretary @AlexAzar is going to be fired by me are Fake News. The Lamestream Media knows this, but they are desperate to create the perception of chaos & havoc in the minds of the public. They never even called to ask. Alex is doing an excellent job!
Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 26, 2020

Reports that H.H.S. Secretary [Alex Azar] is going to be fired by me are Fake News, Trump wrote on Twitter. The Lamestream Media knows this, but they are desperate to create the perception of chaos & havoc in the minds of the public.

The presidents assurances came just a day after The Wall Street Journal first reported that officials in the White House were weighing Azars removal over his departments mismanagement of the coronavirus outbreak in the United States. More than 965,000 people have now tested positive for COVID-19 and the death toll topped 50,000 earlier this week.

Trump, reportedly growing frustrated and isolated as his administration is engulfed in controversy, has been reaching for anyone and anything to blame for his botched response to the virus, lashing out at the World Health Organization , the media , China and officials both outside and inside his own orbit.

But the president has been hesitant to shake up the medical leadership behind the nations coronavirus response, the Journal reported this weekend. Trump has regularly pushed back against allegations he is frustrated with Dr. Anthony Fauci or Dr. Deborah Birx, top advisers often forced to undercut the presidents claims that contravene medical advice .

Azar promptly retweeted Trumps missive on Sunday, reiterating the claim that reports of his imminent dismissal were fake news while championing the administrations work to rein in the spread of the virus.

While the #FakeNews media and their leaker allies collude to destroy this President, his Administration is following his leadership 24/7 to protect Americans and end a global health crisis, Azar wrote. POTUS took bold, early, decisive action for which he was heavily criticized by the same media outlets that continue attacking today.

Reports of President Trump looking to replace me are #FakeNews. The media continues to smear @POTUS and his Administrations fight against #COVID19 and grossly overlook the historic whole-of-government response that weve been delivering under the Presidents leadership. https://t.co/xTqePeR3Cu

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Reports of President Trump looking to replace me are #FakeNews . The media continues to smear @POTUS and his Administrations fight against #COVID19 and grossly overlook the historic whole-of-government response that weve been delivering under the Presidents leadership. https://t.co/xTqePeR3Cu
Secretary Alex Azar (@SecAzar) April 26, 2020

The White House has faced an onslaught of criticism throughout the pandemic over the availability of medical supplies , pleas that testing capacity be increased and the length of time it took for Trump himself to appear concerned that cases of the virus had even made it to American shores.

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Trump has regularly replaced Cabinet members and other administration officials hes grown unhappy with. Azar is the presidents second HHS secretary after Tom Price was forced to resign amid scrutiny over his billing of taxpayers for chartered flights .

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