He did, for example when he shut down chinese from coming here at the start. But he let travelers from China, who weren't Chinese return. Trump was fixated on "the China virus" and never realized that he was letting infected people come in freely.
Yeah, like American citizens. You gonna leave them in China and simply 'hope' they get care?
Just pointing out that stopping travel from China, except for infected Americans coming home, was not an effective control. It was based on a reflexive racism, not a rational idea. If you let Americans come home (and that seems like the right thing to do) you've completely invalidated a travel ban as a protection from the virus.
But that was just the beginning. He failed to provide guidance on social distancing, masks, and testing. He told people the danger was a "hoax" and that it was going to go away "like a miracle" at the same time he admitted to Woodward that he knew it was very bad and that he liked to "downplay" the danger. C'mon.
Course you would'a preferred "We're all gonna die."
I can never understand why some people think the alternative to "it's really bad, but I'm going to downplay the danger to the American people" is "we're all gonna die." But it does explain why some people don't understand how badly Trump bungled this crisis.
Biden, early on, presented a plan based on science and the knowledge of doctors and epidemiologists. Hundreds of thousands of deaths could have been prevented, and our economy would be on the road to recovery by now.
That would sound real presidential.
It did.
You remember Roosevelt's campaign song when running for president in 1932?
I remember his words to the American people. He acknowledged the severity of that crisis, but told Americans what we had to fear was fear itself. That was also Biden's message. We have a horrible crisis, but we can and will beat it. That's a big part of why he was elected.
"Happy Days are Here Again"; in 1932 happy days were certainly not here again.
But shortly after, recovery began. It's noteworthy that Roosevelt eased off on his programs as the recovery went on. He was calibrating his efforts to the economy. He actually cut back a bit too much at one point, and the economy trended down briefly.
(regarding lack of a plan to distribute vaccines effectively)
But it wasn't until Biden's people got a plan to make it available. It's one thing to have the vaccine, and quite another to get it in people's arms. As usual, Trump was a day late and a dollar short. Biden realized the problem and we are doing much better now. It's going to be a different administration.
C'mon man (as Joe would say). What reality are you living in? That is an out and out falsehood and you know it.
No, it's quite true. There was no plan for vaccine distribution when Biden entered the WH; he had to do that himself.
'There was no plan':
'There was no plan': Private health care workers shortchanged by vaccine distribution
They liked Obama because he was so eager to please foreign leaders.....
Putin and the Mullahs in Iran would disagree with you. Both took a beating from his sanctions. And the Iranians ultimately folded and complied with his demands in order to get their money back from U.S. and European banks (European leaders agreed to his plan to withhold Iranian funds until they abandoned their nuclear weapons program). And they wanted to be able to sell their oil again, something they could not do until they complied with Obama's demands.
On the other hand, Trump was like a little puppy dog with Putin and the Saudis:
Donald Trump has been accused of hypocrisy after appearing to "curtsey" while receiving a gold medal from the king of Saudi Arabia.
Donald Trump appears to 'curtsey' to Saudi king
Give him a photo op and he would do whatever they wanted. Remember:
President Trump emerged from his historic summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki on Monday saying he doesn’t believe that Russia interfered in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
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Putin’s denial, and Trump’s seeming acceptance of it, flies in the face of the conclusion of six top U.S. intelligence agencies that Russia interfered in the 2016 U.S. election. In early January 2017, the office of the director of national intelligence released a report concluding with “high confidence” that Putin “ordered an influence campaign in 2016 aimed at the U.S. presidential election.”
“I don’t see any reason why it would be,” Trump said during a joint press conference with Putin following their discussions. “President Putin was extremely strong and powerful in his denial today.”
Trump says he believes Putin that Russia didn't interfere in election 
