Trump lied continually about COVID. It was no more harmful than the flu. It would be gone by Easter. It would be gone miraculously when the summer arrived. It would cause no more than 40,000 deaths. How many lives were lost because of his lies? Instead of managing the short supply of PPE and ventilators, he caused states to bid against each other for them, driving up costs and leading to hoarding and shortages. A real leader would have taken over the supplies and made sure they got to where they were needed most. Remember, he claimed to be a war time President. Is that how a war time President handles the supply chain? The moron argued with the medical scientific community instead of letting them do their job. Like he was some kind of intellectual equal. He lied about masks (probably still does), and set a very poor example of taking precautions to keep people safe. In fact, recent information suggests he would be dead right now if he hadn’t been given life saving drugs that regular Americans had no access to like monoclonal antibodies. He turned the White House into a high risk COVID zone. How many of his inner circle also got COVID? He advised the American people to drink hand sanitizer and take hydroxychloroquine. He continually fought testing. Do you remember this gem, “the more we test, the more cases we will have” and “testing will cause our numbers to go up”. What a fool! You want to give him credit for the development of the vaccine? What the hell would he know about that? Encouraging the quick development of the vaccine is something any President would have done. That was a no brainer. It certainly wasn’t some ingenious idea. Then he lies about when the vaccine would be ready, and has no plan for getting it to the American people. When the Biden administration took over they were shocked at the lack of planning for implementation of the vaccine under Trump. Trump said 35 million people would be vaccinated before he left office. He vaccinated a little over 13 million. Biden promised a million a day for the first hundred days he was in office. Currently we are vaccinating about 1.6 million each day, and, although slowed by the weather, that number is increasing almost daily. Trump underfunded economic relief to the American people and the business community. That’s why we are being forced to do it again just a few months later. Under Trump we became the hardest hit country in the world by COVID. One fifth of all the deaths in the world from COVID have occurred here! In the US, the wealthiest country in the history of the world! NO ONE tries to defend that hole on his handling of COVID anymore. He could not have done a worse job! He performance killed tens of thousands of Americans. We really have only ourselves to blame for electing the bone spur bankruptcy filing coward and grifter to office.
