and only AFTER they allowed, or themselves actively enacted, the movement of infected persons into the country did he do anything at all besides parroting Xi-ass-kissing Chinese state media propaganda. By the time he appointed Pence to be in charge of everything-coronavirus there were already hundreds to thousands of cases in a dozen states (though most are not and never will be documented) -- it is totally implausible to have so many "no known contact/source, community acquired" cases without MANY unidentified cases floating around.
To answer your question, though, our border with China is air travel. Which the federal government absolutely has the power and ability to choke off at a moment's notice. And they did not. For months.
The Trump Admin absolutely fucked up in allowing or outright enabling/enacting air travel of infected persons to communities all over this country. Aside from China, every "first world" country has handled this more effectively than the US, even (in Americans' stereotypes) notoriously corrupt/ineffective/clusterfuck-prone places like Italy.
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