Is it fair to blame Donald Trump for the damage done by Covid?

Trump isn't a normal politician. He certainly had to rely heavily on some of his advisors. Do you think he made any of these decisions alone?
I'm not talking about anything on which his advisors had input. I'm talking about the way he personally downplayed the virus, attacked doctors, mocked people over masks, etc. That was inexcusable and beneath the presidency, as are many of his behaviors.
 
I'm not talking about anything on which his advisors had input. I'm talking about the way he personally downplayed the virus, attacked doctors, mocked people over masks, etc. That was inexcusable and beneath the presidency, as are many of his behaviors.
He could have behaved with more tact for sure. I don't think he could have stopped the pandemic from ravaging our nation though.
 
It's easy to monday morning QB, especially when dealing with something that in real time we knew so little about...then President Trump followed the advise, even when he didn't want to, of the so called experts, like Fauci.

The reality though, is now, now we know so much more then we did in 2020, and now we have a vaccine....and we have more deaths this year, then last year...it's all Xiden's policies....it's the Dembot cult to blame
 
But will you give Trump credit for the vaccines that he fast tracked or developed at warp speed? I doubt it as that would ruin your argument.

Trump didn't develop the vaccines the vaccines were developed before Trump was president.
 
It's easy to monday morning QB, especially when dealing with something that in real time we knew so little about...then President Trump followed the advise, even when he didn't want to, of the so called experts, like Fauci.

The reality though, is now, now we know so much more then we did in 2020, and now we have a vaccine....and we have more deaths this year, then last year...it's all Xiden's policies....it's the Dembot cult to blame
Trump is always the victim to you..
 
He could have behaved with more tact for sure. I don't think he could have stopped the pandemic from ravaging our nation though.
He pretty clearly enabled the notion that this was being overblown, and that stopped people from getting vaccinated. How many of them died? How many of them spread it to others that died? I don't believe that's a small number.

Overall, he:
  • LIED to the American public about the severity of a deadly global pandemic as it was bearing down on us
  • ATTACKED our best health and science officials when they were just trying to do their damn jobs
  • MOCKED Americans who were just trying to protect themselves and their loved ones with masks and social distancing
  • THANKED supporters who gathered in indoor spaces without masks, creating super-spreader events
  • MAINTAINED an environment of not taking the virus seriously, which obviously spread to the sheep, no doubt spreading the virus further
  • IGNORED health safety protocols at the fucking WHITE HOUSE, turning it into a fucking COVID HOT SPOT that needed to be FUMIGATED
  • LIED AGAIN to the American public by constantly saying "we're turning the corner on the virus", even when they knew goddamn well we were not
 
He pretty clearly enabled the notion that this was being overblown, and that stopped people from getting vaccinated. How many of them died? How many of them spread it to others that died? I don't believe that's a small number.

Overall, he:
  • LIED to the American public about the severity of a deadly global pandemic as it was bearing down on us
  • ATTACKED our best health and science officials when they were just trying to do their damn jobs
  • MOCKED Americans who were just trying to protect themselves and their loved ones with masks and social distancing
  • THANKED supporters who gathered in indoor spaces without masks, creating super-spreader events
  • MAINTAINED an environment of not taking the virus seriously, which obviously spread to the sheep, no doubt spreading the virus further
  • IGNORED health safety protocols at the fucking WHITE HOUSE, turning it into a fucking COVID HOT SPOT that needed to be FUMIGATED
  • LIED AGAIN to the American public by constantly saying "we're turning the corner on the virus", even when they knew goddamn well we were not
Do you agree with the statement that Donald Trump is directly responsible for the deaths of over 500,000 people?
 
He pretty clearly enabled the notion that this was being overblown, and that stopped people from getting vaccinated. How many of them died? How many of them spread it to others that died? I don't believe that's a small number.

Overall, he:
  • LIED to the American public about the severity of a deadly global pandemic as it was bearing down on us
  • ATTACKED our best health and science officials when they were just trying to do their damn jobs
  • MOCKED Americans who were just trying to protect themselves and their loved ones with masks and social distancing
  • THANKED supporters who gathered in indoor spaces without masks, creating super-spreader events
  • MAINTAINED an environment of not taking the virus seriously, which obviously spread to the sheep, no doubt spreading the virus further
  • IGNORED health safety protocols at the fucking WHITE HOUSE, turning it into a fucking COVID HOT SPOT that needed to be FUMIGATED
  • LIED AGAIN to the American public by constantly saying "we're turning the corner on the virus", even when they knew goddamn well we were not
Trump was dealing with a lot more then the Virus. It was Progs who stymied anything to promote a bipartisan response. Trump went across the street from a politically designed war torn D.C. to stand in front of a church with a Bible. Trump did that. He was trying to send a message. And it did not resonate as the godless Progressive Socialist party is a church in itself. The real cult.
 
No. That's partisan hyperbole.
He certainly could have done a better job, but I think it's mostly just a tact thing.

I think at the time there were a lot of rich people and a lot of experts that were underestimating the virus. Shutting down travel and the economy is a ridiculously huge and scary decision. Apprehension and doubt are understandable. I think he underestimated it because a lot of people around him were underestimating it too.
 
Trump made the decision in Feb20 to politicize the virus. Aware of the dangers he chose to hide them and make believe there was no danger. Then, in April he made the decision to politicize masks and other safety protocols.

Blame trump for the pandemic? No.
Blame Trump for 500k deaths because of his refusal to lead? Certainly.
They all tried to down play it. Washington does that for every bad thing that happens. regardless of who is President.
Of course, I dont expect you to understand that, or see beyond your binary nose.
 
Do you EVER say anything correct? OMG
I said nothing that was incorrect. mRNA has to be coded for each virus it is used for but the basis of the mRNA sequence was developed in the 1970's and first used in the 1990's in experiments on monkeys for the flu.
 
I said nothing that was incorrect. mRNA has to be coded for each virus it is used for but the basis of the mRNA sequence was developed in the 1970's and first used in the 1990's in experiments on monkeys for the flu.
So the vaccines werent done. Thanks.
 
I think right wingers would have rebelled against masks and vaccines regardless of Trump.
 
No one person is to blame for this, and obviously whatever the fuck happened in China is the biggest culprit.

But Trump did plenty to make it worse than it needed to be, just by being what he is.

Just china? The research on the gof was funded in north carolina and then when it was denied, fauci approved it in wuhan. Yeah, thats what happened. Its no mystery. And yes, trump should have never shut down the country. That was his fault.
 
After 9-11, Bush united the country in the war on terror.

Trump did the opposite with COVID. He politicized COVID and isolated the US from WHO and the rest of the world
He seemed more obsessed with who gets the blame rather than what do we need to do to fight this
He made COVID red states vs blue states and made opposing masks and social distancing a political stance for Republicans
 

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