Trump admin’s failure is due to downplaying the threat (deadly), inaction or partial measures, confusion (major problem), and inaccurate public statements ( normal for Trump). Trump is ignorant and his bungling blustery response was an absolute failure of leadership in major proportions.

This had a huge effect on widening the spread which continued on after Trump left office. Let’s pause and give Trump credit for not getting in the way in developing the vaccines, he deserves that, but his failures lead to estimates that as much as 40% of the Covid deaths could have been avoided by proper leadership and response. Attempting to shift the blame to others won’t work on intelligent thinking people as everyone knows Trump was an absolute fool here.