Please listen.
Donald Trump isn't president to solve problems. He's president to dismantle the government and any means of helping people live longer, better lives.
Fighting a pandemic and saving people from agonizing, lonely deaths runs counter to his agenda.
This government is meant to be incapable and destructive.
He wants to kill the government and remove any impediment to power and profit. That's it.
Any actual response to the pandemic will come from the states or local/community organizing. The federal government has been rendered obsolete and incapable by design.
This is what Republicans have worked so hard for. The murder of organized government.
Donald Trump has nothing to do with politics. His, like Putin and other authoritarians, is a post-political worldview that seeks to destroy politics as we know it.
This is about power. This is about profit.
That's it. A pandemic is just an accelerant.
The response to that disaster was tinged with prejudice and colonial spite, but any disaster, be it natural or man-made, an earthquake or hurricane or pandemic, would elicit this yawning malfeasance from Trump.
It's who he is. And people need to wake up.