By Jamal Whiteman

A new Occidental Public Polling survey shows that a majority of Trump supporters trust the president over the medical community. The poll showed that 75 percent of Trump supporters said the president was more trustworthy than doctors such as Dr. Anthony Fauci.

According to comments left on the poll Trump supporters claimed that too many doctors “had a liberal bias,” “were disloyal to the president” or “looked Muslim.”

“If they’re Muslim, their first loyalty is to the Devil, not Trump or the United States,” said Phyllis Lloyd, a Trump supporter from Phoenix, Ariz.

However, many other far-right commentators have criticized the medical community.

Right-wing commentator/science denier Rush Limbaugh also claimed members of the medical community couldn’t be trusted.

“And I think it’s imperative that we have somebody like Donald Trump, who is outside the establishment, expert class, who has a history of solving problems, to actually lead the country through this,” said Limbaugh on his show. “You know, we’ve talked about the ‘Deep State’ all these years since Trump was elected — the Trump-Russia collusion, the FBI — well, the Deep State extends very deeply. And the American people did not elect a bunch of health experts that we don’t know. We didn’t elect a president to defer to a bunch of health experts that we don’t know.”

Limbaugh, a college drop out, seems to be unable to understand scientific information. He’s a climate change denier and also downplayed the dangers of smoking. Now he has lung cancer.

But in related news, Trump has been pushing the use of hydroxychloroquine to treat the coronavirus, even though the drug hasn’t been approved by the Federal Drug Administration (FDA.) The New York Times revealed that Trump has a financial stake in the company that makes the drug.

Also, several media reports stated the White House was listening to the advice of Dr. Mehmet Oz, a surgeon and TV doctor. Oz is notorious for pushing quack cures on television.