Would not have happened in the Obama Administration (see Ebola — two American deaths) or if Hillary had been elected.
Trump discarded America’s pandemic platform. He had zero clue of the threat generally.
As CV-19 spread across the globe in January - March, Trump is on record repeatedly dismissing the threat, notwithstanding the alarming information in the daily briefing books, which he never reads.
Valuable and critical weeks wasted by not engaging the scientists and national experts, not going “balls to the wall” in mobilizing testing capacity and PPE manufacturing, and never having the wherewithal to lead the globe from the front ... what America always used to do.
The real leadership has come from the Governors. Their approval ratings reflect that reality.
Through no credit to Trump, America’s best and brightest scientists and medical professionals are rallying with magnificence to chase down the Willy Wonka bar.
Trump is lost. Just a loudmouth kid talking smack from the dugout. But no bat. No glove.
I always knew world events would expose him.