That's easy to do since he acts like such a boob, but isn't really grounded in any kind of reality. We're the "world leader in cases" for over a dozen demographic/geographic/political reasons that have little if anything to do with Drumpf. This thing was pretty much guaranteed to dunk on us pretty hard regardless who is POTUS.
See above. There's no way to "provide a coordinated plan to attack" a novel virus that spreads this easily and quickly in a country with so many demographic/geographic/political variables. If there was, it would be the job of the CDC...who have been shockingly inept at performing their
primary job function since Day 1. As stated above, the actual physical response to the virus would look almost identical under president whoever...the only difference would be the absence of the asshat statements etc.
Let me explain. Trump could have laid out specific steps (that many states took on their own) such as mandating masks, closing certain businesses and putting restrictions (ie no more than 3 people in an elevator) on others to stay open. Since the federal government has limited powers over the states Trump would have gotten on national television and made a appeal to all citizens to follow these guidelines, explaining that they were our best chance to slow the spread and eventually beat this thing. Other world leaders made these types of appeals to their citizens along with certain mandates. If not how do you think other countries have reversed the spread while our continues trending up. Look at Italy the epicenter after China. They took aggressive actions early on. Their cases peaked at the end of March and fell dramatically after that point. Trump's continual denials emboldened his base to ignore social distancing guidelines which led to increased growth in cases and deaths. If you look at a chart the US had a slight drop in the month of June (which also coincided with states reopening) and we have had a major spike in daily cases since early July. So yes, his lack of leadership and coordinated plan has led to the situation we are in today
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A lot of leaders did, from many other countries, including ours. ?
Not entirely true, but he did do a little of that to a few who blamed him for stuff that happened in their states. That said, obviously not a great look for a POTUS, but again had little if any effect on the physical response.
Interestingly, at the same time as that was going on, every state received
every bit of federal government assistance that they asked for, in a pretty timely manner.
If it makes you or whoever feel better to blame him for everything, that's cool I guess. ?
