Wonder why the left called Trump a Xenophobe when he in fact started restricting travel? Uuuuuummmmmh?
Because it gave the appearance of doing something, when in fact he did nothing. He might have accelerated the arrival of the virus into the USA by closing the border from China. After supposedly closing the border, Trump allowed 40,000 Americans to return from China to the USA, without testing the returning Americans, and without providing PPE's to the government workers at the airports where they arrived. How many of those Americans would not have returned from China if not for the so-called ban?
When Trudeau closed the Canada/USA border, he told Canadians to come home before the border closed for good, and with a week our cases spiked, even though snowbirds were order to self isolate for 14 days, and most of them did. At one point, 20% of our cases originated in the USA.
Canada didn't close the border with China but they did test everyone coming in from China and told people to self-isolate when they got here. You closed the border and called your citizens home without testing them. You should not have done that without testing them.