If that’s the standard you’re using, then DeSantis should be disqualified from ever holding public office just for imposing lockdowns in the first place. South Dakota governor Kristi Noem should be your candidate — because she’s the only one who never locked her state down.
You won’t find a single lockdown order anywhere with Donald Trump’s name on it.
15 Days to Stop the Spread was a Trump policy. There was a national lockdown for a couple of weeks that morphed into three years.
No, we won’t see a lockdown order with Trump’s name on it because Presidents don’t do that. What they do is declare a national emergency, go on TV and state that we need to all lock down for weeks to “flatten the curve.” Then they ask Congress to appropriate a gajillion dollars to pay for lockdowns so governors have the funds, and thus further pressure, to lockdown. Without all that none of the states could have afforded to lockdown. After the states lockdown he then publicly derides the first governor (Kemp) who dared to come out of lockdown.
That is the true history of the lockdowns. Germophobe Trump was the driving force behind lockdowns. He declared them, he financed them, he promoted them and he was publicly an ass about them to people who weren’t panicking like he was. Trump owns the lockdowns, and anyone who thinks otherwise is re-writing history and fooling themselves.