Other measures came in early March such as EU travel ban, CAREs act, defence production

All came to be when Trump couldn't cover up the dead bodies piling up

And deregulation for rapid testing

Shifting goalposts

You wanted stuff he did in Jan/Feb, there it is.

None of those existed when Trump was first informed on the virus 3-4 months ago

Trump heard of the virus at the end of Dec, nobody knew how bad it would spread later on in Jan

He straight up ignored his health officials for the whole of January

Which is why he formed a task force and banned travel?

He also declared a public health emergency too

Not only that, he did these things before most countries.

So by your logic every other country did badly.

Well, if he didn't, that would cause his approval to downfall like crazy. None of the stuff he did was because of the seriousness of the virus, he did it to please the voters and rally them to his side. Which he failed for most people, obviously since the response was WAY too slow.

Search up any article on google, none of them approve of Trump's response to the virus

Umm, my country as well as most others in the Balkans put everyone in lockdown the moment the first case showed up

He is hands down the best President

This isn't the place for sheep without arguments, Viktor

If you wanna play like that, he is hands down the worst president in the 21st century so far.

Well, not counting the beginning of it

Well, maybe even the beginning

So your argument went from "he didn't do anything"

to "he didn't do it because of the virus"

Then to justify it by "no articles", which would possibly be the worst argument yet.

Ok I'll just let u guys talk about Trump and get outta here

> Umm, my country as well as most others in the Balkans put everyone in lockdown the moment the first case showed up
US was the one of the first to declare travel restrictions and create a task force.

Anyways, about lock downs - it's left up to the states.

I never changed my arguments. I said that his response was way too slow. I am not neglecting the response he made because he was FORCED his hand.

Don't spin my words around.

Ok so we go back to the original, how is his response slow if I named the aforementioned that happened in Jan/Feb

Around the same time or faster than other world leaders?

The US actually has less deaths than most Eu countries when you account for population, hell even without that it has less deaths than Italy and Spain lmao.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-coronavirus-timeline-dismissed-969381/

So you want to talk about rhetoric instead of policy now?

This is the first article I found on the timeline, I couldn't view it all because my hands are tied tight noe

Now

I can link articles of democrats downplaying it too.

Although, I don’t care - since he implemented policies too.

What he was doing is trying to calm people and the markets.

Italy and Spain are dealing with the virus way worse than most European countries, try not to include them.

Why not?

Because of many factors, most important one is being that even today, most people there don't give a crap yet, not taking it as serious as it should be

Those countries have messed up, yes. No reason not to include them, however even if you exclude such countries the US is less than most countries in terms of deaths.