The thing you need to understand about the Trump Administration is that there is no Trump Administration.

There's an illusion of a government presented by a collection of criminals whose only concern is further dismantling government to accelerate profit and consolidate power.

The Trump Administration is the final movement in a decade's old effort by Republicans to destroy governance completely and move the directing of society to the wealthy and markets.

Trump is the deathblow. He's not there to solve problems or save lives. https://www.themuckrake.com/main/pseudoevents

When the pandemic set in, the first goal of the Trump Administration was to pretend it didn't exist. It was a corporate PR strategy. Once it became unhideable, the question became: how can we profit from this?

We have to realize we're not watching politics-as-usual.