“The jobs and the economy are much more important than some old and sick people dying, we have millions more where they came from.”
Trump, being a responsible leader, cares about all those things. They’re not mutually exclusive, even if propagandists on the Left pretend they are.
And jobs and the economy do a great job keeping people alive and healthy. That’s why the Third World is called the Third World. Poor people in poor countries tend to get sick and die.
The question is not whether they are mutually exclusive but which takes priority. PDJT rightly says “The cure cannot be worse than the disease”.
Old and sick people die more than young people, that’s the nature of life. Saving them from dying of COVID doesn’t save them from dying of other things. With a functioning economy things can be done to protect old and sick people, but there are millions of old and sick people and you cannot protect everyone.