How unspeakably childish of one of Trump's top lieutenants:
Dr. Fauci is 79-years-old, and to the best of my knowledge has never been known for his baseball pitching skills, which lie juuust a little outside his profession of studying infectious diseases. One could more easily mock Navarro for virtually every stupid position (meaning every position) he has taken in his profession. Aside from inanely advocating the U.S.' withdrawal from President Obama's thoughtful Trans-Pacific Partnership, there's this, from Wikipedia:
According to Politico, "Navarro is perhaps the most extreme advocate in Washington, and maybe in all of economics, for an aggressive stance toward China"…. Navarro put his attention to China in the mid-2000s. His first publication on the subject is the 2006 book The Coming China Wars: Where They Will Be Fought, How They Can Be Won. Navarro has said that he started to examine China when he noticed that his former students were losing jobs, concluding that China was at fault"…
[In a 2012 documentary], of the more than dozen China specialists contacted by Foreign Policy, most either did not know of Navarro or had only interacted with him briefly. Kenneth Pomeranz, University of Chicago professor of Chinese History, said that his "recollection is that [Navarro] generally avoided people who actually knew something about the country"….
Navarro has called for repatriating global supply chains. According to Politico's Jacob Heilbrunn, such a move "would be enormously costly and take years to execute"….
Navarro has characterized foreign purchases of U.S. companies as a threat to national security, but according to NPR, this is "a fringe view that puts him at odds with the vast majority of economists." Dartmouth economist Douglas Irwin noted that the US government already reviews foreign purchases of companies with military or strategic value, and has on occasion rejected such deals….
Navarro has also said that the United States has "already begun to lose control of [its] food supply chain," which according to NPR, "sounded pretty off-the-wall to a number of economists" who noted that the US is a massive exporter of food. Dermot Hayes, an agribusiness economist at Iowa State University, described Navarro's statement as "uninformed"….
The Economist has described Navarro's ["odd-ball"] views on the trade deficit as "dodgy economics," while the Financial Times has described them as "poor economics."
I bet Fauci would have been in the strike zone if a face shot of Navarro had been in the catcher's mitt.