Clearly he has handled this crisis poorly. I don’t blame him for the virus obviously.
I also don’t blame him for the lack of ventilators or even the lack of preparation of the health care system. I think a forward thinking president could have handled the latter much better, but i can give him a pass if I’m being generous.
What is unforgivable is his rhetoric. He, without a doubt, accelerated the trajectory of this disease in the US with his statements. Twenty year old spring breakers were getting vilified for taking the crisis exactly as serious as the leader of the free world. I saw idiots disregard common sense because of his idiotic statements, and because of that, this thing spread much quicker. I saw events not cancelled because the consensus was a bunch of people parroting Trump’s hoax bullshit.
If we were to stumble upon a drug cocktail that puts a temporary halt to the deaths at 40k or 60k, which is doubtful, but possible, in that scenario I think it’s unquestionable Trump personally is responsible for more American deaths than Bin Laden on 9/11 and it’s not really arguable given the difference a few weeks makes with the multiplier effect of this virus. His idiocy would have killed thousands of Americans.