The COVID-era diary Dr. Anthony Fauci kept during his run as America’s most powerful bureaucrat was just released to the public — and if you were expecting anything resembling scientific humility, you can put that expectation down now.
What surfaced instead reads less like the private notebook of a career civil servant and more like the yearbook of a man who genuinely believed the country revolved around him. Bragging entries. Photographs of Prayer Medals with his own face on them. Diary drawings of himself as a superhero. A cartoon of Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida, hand-labeled as “Death,” in a fight scene with Fauci himself as the hero. And — the part patriots on X have been circulating since the release — an entry where Fauci records, with apparent delight, that a news headline declared “America Is Thirsty” for him.
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The DeSantis Entry That Ages Badly
The single most damning image circulating from the diary release is Fauci’s hand-drawn cartoon in which the Governor of Florida is depicted, not as a political opponent to be argued with, not as an official whose policies Fauci disagreed with, but as the personification of Death. Fauci himself appears in the drawing as the crusading hero, sword raised.
Ron DeSantis, of course, is the governor who kept Florida’s schools open, its beaches accessible, and its economy running while much of the rest of the country was locked in state-mandated compliance under Fauci’s guidance. Florida’s outcomes have been studied ever since and continue to look strong on nearly every metric. The Governor Fauci privately drew as Death was, in fact, the governor who did more to preserve normal American life during 2020 and 2021 than nearly any other elected official in the country.
That the “science” figure in the White House press room was, in his private notebook, drawing his political adversaries as Death is not a small tell. It is the entire tell.
The Actual Diary Images — See For Yourself
Below are the actual images circulating from the diary release. Legacy media is refusing to show them. Patriots deserve to see the receipts in the raw, and to circulate them until the story reaches every corner of the internet the mainstream press is trying to bury it in.
Dr. Fauci had a diary entry showing himself fighting off Florida Governor Ron DeSantis depicted as “Death”. This didn’t age very well. https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/2081583671828517375
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) July 26, 2026
Dr. Fauci CELEBRATED Getting His Own Action Figure and Being Depicted as Superman in his Diary: “QUITE A DAY!!” https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/2081581731451117639
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) July 26, 2026
Dr. Fauci Diary Entry of a Photo of a Prayer Medal Depicting Himself Reposted by the “Dr. Anthony Fauci Fan Club” — Is there anyone in the world who loves themselves more than Fauci? https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/2081583160203026479
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) July 26, 2026
CRINGE: Dr. Fauci’s Diary He Kept During COVID Was Just Released. He saved clippings of articles that say “America is Thirsty” for him, pictures of donuts with his face on them, and fawned over posts of himself as Superman. https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/2081568889893277879
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) July 26, 2026
Every one of the entries above is real. Every one is in Fauci’s own hand or in his own private files. And every one is worth remembering the next time a network anchor lectures America about “trust the science.”
The Musk Entries
Fauci’s diary also captured, with visible bitterness, the moment Elon Musk began circulating memes about him — including the iconic “My Pronouns Are Prosecute/Fauci” post that swept X in 2022. The entries reveal a man deeply, personally wounded by internet mockery from the world’s most-followed account. The bureaucrat who told American parents they could not gather for Thanksgiving apparently spent his private hours cataloging jokes about himself and taking them very personally.
The larger picture the diary paints is not scientific. It is not medical. It is not even administrative. It is a portrait of a man who mistook the microphone he had been handed for a coronation — and who genuinely believed the American people should be grateful.
The Networks Pretending Nothing Happened
If any of the above surprises you, the second half of the story will not. As of Tuesday morning, journalist Julie Kelly cataloged the mainstream networks that have found nothing newsworthy in the Fauci diary release: ABC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, and NBC News.
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This is the same slate of networks that spent 2020 through 2022 treating Fauci as an oracle. They booked him for softball interviews. They lionized him on prime-time. They defended every reversal, every “noble lie,” every closed school, every canceled funeral, every family kept apart. When patriots pointed out that the emperor was making the entire country dance for his ego, those same networks called the concern “conspiracy.”
Now the diary is public. It confirms — in his own handwriting — what patriots said for years. And every one of those networks has decided the story doesn’t exist.
Why This Actually Matters
It would be easy to treat this as one more “haha, Fauci is a narcissist” news cycle and move on. That would be a mistake. The point of the diary release is not to laugh at a small man with big vanity. The point is to nail down, permanently and in the public record, what actually drove the policy that closed America.
The lockdowns did not come from a cold, careful cost-benefit analysis by a nation of experts. They came, in significant part, from the personal judgment and personal politics of one man who — as his diary now proves — saw himself as America’s savior and his political opponents as literal Death. Every mother who had to bury a parent alone. Every senior who died in isolation. Every kid who lost 18 months of school. Every small business that never reopened. All of that flowed downstream from the man whose private notebook now reads like the fever dream of an internet-addicted celebrity.
The permanent record now shows it. Patriots deserved this vindication. And they deserve it in every publication, on every screen, at every level of American media — not just on X and not just on Right Patriots.
Read the diary. Share what you find. And every time ABC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, or NBC News platform another “expert” telling you what you should think, remember what those networks refused to cover the week Fauci’s actual diary hit the public record.
The Media Collusion Buried Inside
The diary is not the only thing patriots need to read. Investigative journalist Julie Kelly has been publishing serialized breakdowns of what she calls “the Fauci Files” — the broader trove of emails and internal documents that came out alongside the diary. What she found is arguably more damning than any single embarrassing diary sketch.
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Read that again. The chief political anchor at CNN — the network that spent five years lecturing America about “disinformation” and “misinformation” — was privately emailing crude insults about a sitting Republican congressman to the government’s top public health official. Not asking questions. Not requesting comment. Coaching Fauci on how to dismiss his oversight.
This is not media doing its job. This is media picking a team.
The Turncoat Angle Patriots Should Not Miss
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Alyssa Farah Griffin — the current co-host of The View, and at the time a communications official inside the Trump White House — was emailing Fauci in 2020 to apologize on behalf of Dr. Scott Atlas, the one senior advisor who was consistently telling the President the truth about lockdown costs. She was, in her own words, actively working to get Atlas removed. Patriots watching The View in 2026 should remember who this person actually was during the moments that mattered most.
Where to Read the Actual Documents
The full “Fauci Files” — diary entries, internal emails, and the reporter’s day-by-day breakdown — are being serialized by Julie Kelly at juliekelly2.substack.com. The broader congressional record — from which many of these documents were subpoenaed and released — is archived at the House Oversight Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic. Bookmark both. This is going to matter through the fall Senate hearing cycle where Fauci — pardoned for actions before January 19, 2025, but exposed to fresh perjury liability for anything he says under oath now — will be asked to explain the diary in his own words.
