I think Trump was pro-"Being the guy who got down to brass tacks and made a solution happen." It's a very corporate-America kind of response. Cut the bullshit, cut the red tape, and get the wheels turning toward a fix for a problem. On its surface, getting industry partners working on a vaccine and removing bureaucratic obstacles seems like a sure win from a business perspective.

What Trump wasn't expecting and/or used to was the insanely high degree of corruption, cronyism and abuse of power that's rampant in government that doesn't really exist in the private sector. My inner cynic says that the deep state figured out how to exploit his entrepreneurial mentality against him and prey on that mentality as a weakness.