With 14 days to go before election day, US president Donald Trump is leaning into his greatest hits playlist from 2016 -- "lock him up" for Joe Biden and Co. instead of "lock her up" for Hillary Clinton, framing scientists as the bad guys coming for American freedoms, injecting the fear of illegal immigrants on your front porch, and a "rigged election".

"People are tired of hearing Fauci and all these idiots," Trump said while speaking to campaign aides on a conference call. "Every time he goes on television, there's always a bomb. but there's a bigger bomb if you fire him. But Fauci's a disaster."