When he told people it might go away, he was giving us some hope as a vaccine at the time was nowhere in the immediate future. If you allow the people to believe the end of the world is near, they will react accordingly.
In short, he LIED.
Hey, remember when Obama said, "If you like your doctor you can keep your doctor", and you fuckwads got all upset because in some cases, that wasn't true.
Lying about how deadly a disease is because you don't want the markets to drop is a lot worse than that.
As for masks, I already posted videos of Trump telling people to wear them after the virus became a real problem.
And I posted a bunch of clips showing where he did exactly the opposite.
When he made fun of ONE OR TWO people for wearing masks, it was at a time where even your beloved Dr. Fauci stated they were unnecessary, and very few people were wearing them.
He was mocking mas wearing ALL THE WAY UP to his debate with Biden. Then he caught it.
You can make some valid points about Trump's rudeness, his Tweets, some of his comments. But when you try to blame him for things he had no control over, your posts lose all credibility.
It's not just his rudeness.
It's his incompetence.
It's his racism
It's his ignorance
it's his corruption
He was completely unfit to be president from day one, and 350,000 Americans paid the price for that.