Trump and the COVID-19 Pandemic

The United States has 4% of the world's population.

It has 25% of the world's coronavirus deaths.

Trump Death Clock

108,299

Estimated Portion U.S. COVID-19 Deaths Due To POTUS Inaction

www.TrumpDeathClock.com

Total Estimated U.S. COVID-19 Cases:	5,884,157
Total Estimated U.S. COVID-19 Deaths:	180,499

In 2014, Trump demanded that President Barack Obama resign because of Ebola.

Two Americans--2--died of Ebola

From The Washington Post:

Trump’s covid-19 inaction killed Americans. Here’s a counter that shows how many.

EXCERPT:

Reports show that as early as January, the president was advised by both his own experts and the intelligence services of the need for urgent mitigation measures against the spread of the virus. Instead, he engaged in petty political feuds and Pollyannaish predictions minimizing its significance. Finally, on March 16, he reversed his previously dismissive stance and announced “new guidelines for every American to follow.”

But by then it was too late; The United States was already the world leader in its rate of covid-19 infection and has since become home to one-third of the world’s cases and five times as many as any other country.

And some of this inaction may have been deliberate. From Vanity Fair:

But the effort ran headlong into shifting sentiment at the White House. Trusting his vaunted political instincts, President Trump had been downplaying concerns about the virus and spreading misinformation about it—efforts that were soon amplified by Republican elected officials and right-wing media figures. Worried about the stock market and his reelection prospects, Trump also feared that more testing would only lead to higher case counts and more bad publicity. Meanwhile, Dr. Deborah Birx, the White House’s coronavirus response coordinator, was reportedly sharing models with senior staff that optimistically—and erroneously, it would turn out—predicted the virus would soon fade away.

Against that background, the prospect of launching a large-scale national plan was losing favor, said one public health expert in frequent contact with the White House’s official coronavirus task force.

Most troubling of all, perhaps, was a sentiment the expert said a member of Kushner’s team expressed: that because the virus had hit blue states hardest, a national plan was unnecessary and would not make sense politically. “The political folks believed that because it was going to be relegated to Democratic states, that they could blame those governors, and that would be an effective political strategy,” said the expert. (Emphasis added.)

And read this DEVASTATING article:

The Trump Pandemic

A blow-by-blow account of how the president killed thousands of Americans.

TRUMP'S WRETCHED HANDLING OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC IS ONE OF THE GREATEST FAILURES IN AMERICAN HISTORY.