Covid-19 has brought America to its knees by killing 200,000 and infecting 6.5 million Americans. 65% of Americans disapprove of the way that President Trump has handled the pandemic.  This is due to the fact that the only successful thing he has done to help this pandemic is close our borders with China. During the first few weeks of the pandemic, he minimized its danger by calling it the “Chinese Virus” and a liberal hoax. The current president of The United States frequently speaks from the podium of the presidency and gives the American people facts that contradict the CDC or Dr. Fauci. On one occasion, the president advised the American people to drink bleach. He made wearing a facemask a partisan issue, by not wearing a mask and stating that they don’t work. He encouraged people  who violated quarantine and attacked governors who took strong steps to control the pandemic. According to recent Bob Woodward tapes, the President knew about the severity of this pandemic but still minimized it for months. He encouraged churches to open for Easter and compared the virus to the flu season. 

  To make matters worse, he gave the responsibility of handling the pandemic to his incompetent son in law, Jared Kushner. Jared Kushner has no experience in handling a global pandemic and he is now in charge of handling the epochal health crisis that has killed 200,000 Americans. 

The U.S. federal response has been disstoriously slow and insufficient. Many of the lives that have been lost were inevitable, but the federal government could have flattened the curve like New York did in the beginning. I believe many tragedies and deaths could have been prevented through proper federal guidance. When there was a coordinated testing system, President Trump refused to implement it on the federal level. Allowing federal testing and contact tracing could have been crucial in the national fight against Covid-19. 

Dealing with a pandemic is hard, but knowing that you can’t trust what the President says makes it even harder. If Trump cared about handling the pandemic efficiently, he would have initiated a national testing early on, he would have encouraged face masks and he would not spend rumors. So, when Americans are casting their ballots in November, Americans should ask themselves, “Could President- Trump have done a worse job handling this pandemic?” and the answer will be no.