To be fair, it also hurt China and put them on notice.
He’s got a series of experts that tell him what and when things are needed because he can’t become a greater medical expert than these people are.
Tell us: What true, able-to-be validated mistakes did President Trump make? Remember, it’s not a “mistake” to not have sold a stock the day before the market crashes unexpectedly.
We are all ears.
First, I take it your position given that you asked this question is that it is your position that he made no mistakes, that he handled the epidemic flawlessly?
The remarks below, iit seems to me, were mistakes:. (Recall that the epidemic was already so bad in China by Jan, 23 that Wuhan on that date was sealed.)
Jan. 22: “We have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China. We have it under control. It’s going to be just fine.”
. Jan. 30: “We think we have it very well under control. We have very little problem in this country at this moment — five — and those people are all recuperating successfully. But we’re working very closely with China and other countries, and we think it’s going to have a very good ending for us … that I can assure you.”
Feb. 10: “We’re in great shape though. We have 12 cases — 11 cases, and many of them are in good shape now.”
Feb. 23: “We have it very much under control in this country.”
Feb. 24: “The Coronavirus is very much under control in the USA. We are in contact with everyone and all relevant countries. CDC & World Health have been working hard and very smart. Stock Market starting to look very good to me!”
Feb. 26: “So we’re at the low level. As they get better, we take them off the list, so that we’re going to be pretty soon at only five people. And we could be at just one or two people over the next short period of time. So we’ve had very good luck.”
Feb. 26: “And again, when you have 15 people, and the 15 within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero, that’s a pretty good job we’ve done.”
Feb. 26: “I think every aspect of our society should be prepared. I don’t think it’s going to come to that [school closings], especially with the fact that we’re going down, not up. We’re going very substantially down, not up.”
More than 20,000 Americans have died since then. Not all of that is the president’s fault, but I reject this worshipful attitude that he can do no wrong, ever.
If people in the CDC told him that there was nothing to worry about, he should have not just blindly accepted what someone in the permanent bureaucracy told him, but should have investigated what the global rate of growth was, what it had been in previous epidemics, and not just assumed “We’re America, I’m Donald Trump, and so it’s impossible for this to be a serious problem.”
He dropped the ball on this one for a long time, although by mid-March he seemed to finally accept that it was bad. Had he accepted this earlier, it might not have been so bad.
My argument is that he shouod have taken it smore seriously earlier, and shouldn’t have been a slave to what the bureaucrats were saying, especially since there was a lot of knowledge about how epidemics can go, and about Chinese lies, by late January.
So I have done what you asked, now it’s your tturn. Why do you think Donald Trump on this matter is beyond criticism? What can you point to that made the epidemic turn out as well as could have been possible? Why was Pres. Trump flawless, subject to no reasonable criticism? I will ask for hard evidence in this regard.