I’m wondering what the media and all these people bashing Trump about Covid wanted him to do? I mean his response wasn’t perfect but good grief the fear porn was off the charts. I remember when I saw the death rate I was shocked that the media reported it like a zombie apocalypse. If Biden wins I’m thinking it will get downplayed or he institutes a lock down. I can see my risk and adjust while living mr life. Not sure what people want.
With Obama I had never seen the media give someone such fawning coverage and Trump is the opposite. Without Covid he wins easily but the media succeeded in scaring people for a virus with a 99.9% survival rate.
It didn't matter what he did. They constantly moved the goalposts.
First they cried about Trump not letting the experts speak, but he was giving multi hour long press conferences every day with Fauci and that bitch. The media simply chose to focus on what Trump was saying and they'd barely give air time to the experts they claimed they needed to hear from.
Then they complained that we weren't testing enough people. Once we quickly ramped up testing and started doing more tests than any other country by far, they shifted to focus exclusively on total death count. (never mentioning population size, death rates, etc.)
Then in mid-June, blue states decided that masks were necessary. Trump didn't immediately support mask mandates and they crucified him for that.
By that point, we already had 6 figure Covid deaths but the media said, "if only Trump would have worn a mask we could have avoided most of these deaths!"
Even if Trump came out first and pushed for mask mandates they would have used that against him.
They didn't "want" him to do anything. They were just there to react negatively to everything he did no matter what it was.