Dr. Anthony Fauci is convinced that Republican Sen. Ron Johnson has no idea what he's talking about regarding HIV/AIDS.

Fauci responded to remarks by Johnson that he has overblown the omicron variant in the same way that he "overhyped" the AIDS crisis in the 1980s.

"Overhyping AIDS? It killed over 750,000 Americans and 36 million people worldwide. How do you overhype that?" Fauci responded in his interview with Jake Tapper. "Overhyping COVID? It's already killed 780,000 Americans and over 5 million people worldwide, so I don't have any clue what he's talking about."

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"I don't think he does either," Tapper stated in agreement.

Johnson made news on Wednesday when he told Brian Kilmeade on Fox that the government wanted to create a "state of fear" to "maintain the controls" over society.

"That's what you're seeing here in the United States," the Wisconsin Republican argued. "I mean, by the way, Fauci did the exact same thing with AIDS. He overhyped it. He created all kinds of fear, saying it could infect the entire population when it couldn't, and he's using the exact same playbook with COVID: ignoring therapy, pushing a vaccine."

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Johnson's remarks were made on World AIDS Day, a national day of remembrance for those who died of AIDS, reports the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

Fauci was one of the first medical researchers who researched HIV/AIDS in the 1980s. He has since advised the last seven presidential administrations on the HIV/AIDS crisis.