The response to COVID (by both Republican and Democrat leaders) was a direct result of having someone in the Oval Office who was not fit to sit in the chair. Remember, it was just one person coming from China. They had it under control....until they didn't. Until the bodies started piling up and there was still no coherent direction coming from the WH to coordinate federal and state agencies for a cogent response. See South Korea as an example of what should have happened late January, 2020. Testing, quarantining, isolation. But none of those procedures were put in place. It was more important to campaign and tweet than it was to do his job. Had there been a coherent and cohesive response, the shutdowns and damage to the economy may not nearly have needed to be as bad as they were.
Sorry, Trump owns
ALL of it.
I understand where Maher is coming from. He's exhausted. He's been broken (like Jon Stewart) by the era of You-Know-Who. He wants it all to go away and just go back to being able to smoke his pot whenever he wants.

But Bill is correct. Trump did nothing for a solid two months. And that allowed the virus to gain a foothold and spread. So other leaders had to step in and make the difficult choices.
I'm not sure why you refuse to give your savior any blame for what went on but it did indeed cost him his re-election.
IF he had just offered a modicom of a response and looked like he gave a shit about hundreds of people dying each week, he would have walked to re-election.