If you think it's that bad,why the hell are we even talking about playing high school football. Close the door and forget football this year. I've never seen or heard of so many rules,differ in each county,state. The only other choice Trump had was to completely shut down every state with stay home orders,which is not legal. How you going to control 300 million people for 3 months,no income. Republicans and Dems. can't agree on a damn thing in DC. I don't think we play football in spring either,I hope so but not likely. Joe Biden doesn't know where he is half the time. He can't do anymore than Trump.
There are always limits to presidential powers but the one thing a president has to be able to do is rally a country behind a cause especially in a crisis.
- He knew in late January about the severity of this virus. Choose to ignore.
- By early March the ball game was largely over with containment but a travel ban on both China( an actual one not a press release one) and most of Europe would have been in order. Yes he would have been criticized. Sometimes that happens in a leadership position.
- Once he realized this was a looming disaster you start following CDC rules and actually listen to the task force you put together. Even into April he continued to ignore and frankly mock those individuals who were sounding huge alarms.
- Stop briefing on matters of science- He knows nothing about it and sounds increasingly more ignorant the more he opens his mouth. If you dont like Fauci then find someone else who has credibility and can shoot straight with the American people.
- Have states follow the actual guidelines your task force put together for re-opening. If they dont you hammer them publicly regardless of political affiliation. He carries an enormous political hammer and uses it when anyone even hints of saying something negative about him. He had the power to control all the R govenors and even some of them D's. Instead he brow beat states like Michigan into opening immediately.
- Establish concrete guidelines for school openings. Instead of tweeting " Schools must open"
All of this was possible. In fact very plausible but because of who he is as an individual he opted for deceit and flat out lies. Its just who he is and has always been.