I don’t think he had any other choice politically on COVID. He didn’t have enough political strength in Congress to simply fire Fauci, Brix and others. He basically trusted the “experts” like all our initial reactions. Trump also was victim to the utter lack of professionalism by these “experts” and the “experts “ in the military and the rest of the bureaucracy. To make matters worse his ego seems to prevent him from admitting he was wrong on this. On COVID he wasn’t so much wrong as scammed. He should find a way to say that.
Still in my estimation he out-Reaganed Reagan! Best president in my lifetime and deserves a 2nd term if he wants it and is up to the rigors to get there.
It wasn’t a political choice when Trump himself got sick with Covid and allowed his doctor to not use either hydroxychloroquine or ivermectin. And after he recovered he didn’t realize that someone with natural immunity doesn’t need booster shots, which he proudly announced he had gotten. When it comes to Covid, Trump acts like a scared old man who bows to “medical authority”. He just doesn’t understand the nature of the FDA/CDC/NIH corruption problem, and DeSantis does. Trump did superbly on foreign policy, and they really ought to name a peace prize in his honor. But now we need someone even better, and that is Ron DeSantis.