Regarding Covid, all Trump really had to do was to shut the fuck up.

[LuckyCharms]

All he had to do was to step up to the podium every few days and say "Listen to Dr. Fauci. Hunker down, wear your masks. Listen to the experts".

Then, he should have turned the logistics of handling the virus over to someone competent. Someone who, unlike Pence and Kushner, could have developed a national plan and steered the manufacturing and distribution of PPE.

His job then would become that of a figurehead who reinforced what competent people said to do. Simple.

What did he do instead? Because of his ego? Because everything is about him?

Shine a light up your ass. Induce light into the body.
Drink disinfectant.
He was wearing the biggest mask I've ever seen.
I closed the borders even when everyone said not to.
It will be gone by Easter.
Fauci is a good guy, but sometimes he doesn't get it right.
We've learned a lot about the disease.
When kids get it, it's like they get the sniffles, then it goes away.
We're rounding the turn.
It's a Democrat hoax.
A vaccine will be ready in a few weeks.
That's a terrible question and you're a terrible reporter.
Two or three million people would be dead if it wasn't for me.
Everyone who wants a test can get a test.
It's 15 people, soon to be zero or close to zero.

Donald J. Trump.

The dumbest motherfucker who ever lived.

Too stupid to even be a competent villain.

Fucks up in ways that normal people couldn't even if they tried their hardest.

An average 8 year old can handle virtually any situation better than he can.

Worries more about his hair than the loss of hundreds of thousands lives.

Lusts after his own daughter.

A mass murderer not due to any particular evil skill, but rather, due to sheer stupidity.

Has only one 30 foot long hair on his head that someone has to twist up, poof out, and wrap around his skull everyday.

Has someone spray orange shit on him before he appears in public.

Wears 10 inch lifts in his shoes that make him tilt forward 30 degrees.

Has never in his entire life said anything vaguely humorous.

Dick like a mushroom.

Hands of a child.

Drugs fly out of his nose when he speaks.

Literally, actually, truly and really cannot just shut the fuck up. About anything.

And in 2 days, he's going to pay.

[niyad]

1. I will point out that nobody had to develop a national plan. The 69 page plan led eloped under

Obama covered all that.

[Cirque du So-What]

2. Righteous rant

[JHB]

3. In other words, Trump had to do the one thing he is incapable of doing...

...shutting up and letting someone else be the center of attention.

[Mick Travis]

4. Yes, he is...

...the dumbest and most dangerous person who has ever lived in the history of the United States.

He must be stomped on like a cockroach Nov. 3rd. and schmooshed into oblivion.

(Sorry cockroaches, I didn't mean to insult you. I would rather a cockroach be president)

[quaker bill]

5. he could have attacked it, acted like a hero battling it

and probably won re-election in a walk. He did not appreciate that he was going to own it regardless. That is a property of being POTUS. The only choice was to determine how he would be seen when owning it. He went with doing nothing trying to pin ownership on someone else. This was not an available option. So all it did was make him look even more incompetent.

[Wounded Bear]

6. I've said it before. "Lead, follow, or get out of the way." Trump can't do any one of those.

[Shermann]

7. I think it started off by doing the opposite of what the Democrats were doing

That's how the Republican Anti-Party rolls most of the time.

So that lead to them being on the wrong side of science in a fast-moving news cycle and being the proverbial boiling frogs.

Chris Cuomo calls it "doubling down on dumb".

[ProudMNDemocrat]

8. Princess Ivanka will find out ORANGE is the new pink.

She and her brothers are going down with their father.

[Statistical]

9. Trump never deserved relection for the three years prior to the pandemic BUT

if he had executed with even the most minimal competency COVID could have been his 9/11 and gave him a 5+ pt boost in the polls and got him re-elected.

I guess if there is any consolation prize for the last four years it is that Trump is evil and stupid not evil and competent.

[DFW]

10. trump can no more shut the fuck up....

....than he can grow another leg and wings to fly. His compulsive need for attention would be unfulfilled like a heroin addict's need for a fix.

[LiberalBrooke]

11. Yes and then he could have blamed the experts for any rise in numbers.

He was just too stupid to do it.

[Mick Travis]

12. No attempt

He made no attempt at controlling the virus. From Day One, he passed it down to the states. Never had any kind of plan. Never even gave a speech giving general info. Just lies and more lies, combined with promoting the macho no mask bullshit, which his demented followers ate up.

[malaise]

13. The problem is that he thought he could out con a pandemic

Down he does. ByeDon!

[subterranean]

14. He could have left Pence in charge of the press briefings.

But of course he can't stand sharing the spotlight with anybody, and when Pence started getting some praise, Trump shoved him aside and said, "Let me handle this." He was afraid of being upstaged.

[Blue Owl]

15. Double K&R