Trump doesn't care how this turns out.

He cares how it makes him look.

He realizes it's making him look bad.

So his goal is to insist it isn't the president's job to do anything at all. And he's withholding help from Blue states, to make Democrats look even worse than he does.
Meanwhile, Trump is allowing companies (and Kushner) to make obscene profits from price gouging.

(R) Govs like Ron DeSatan in Florida are helping by blaming New York for the Florida outbreak. DeSatan waited until THIS WEEK to take even the most basic steps to respond.
If Trump were to begin making real moves that would really have an impact, that would be an admission there were real moves he could have made months ago. Which is why he still refuses to do anything at all, other than encourage States to fight each other for scarce resources.
The end result of all this is, America has no national strategy for responding to the #TrumpVirus. Which means we are seeing an uncontrolled outbreak, and turning the entire nation into a single vast plague zone.

This is what "small government" looks like. Remember this.
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