This is the biggest blunder in presidential history

[SunSeeker]

President Trump, as he often does when he has made a mistake or revealed his ignorance, changed course to claim that he knew all along that we were facing a pandemic.

As a preliminary matter, this is a lie, as this video shows:

Link to tweet

The president has consistently downplayed, denied and misled the public about the seriousness of the threat. Moreover, since the first cases appeared in China in late December, he took few steps to prepare the country for the pandemic before it inevitably reached our shores. We are to believe that he knew there was a pandemic but willfully allowed the crisis to get worse.
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Trump shares the blame for failing to develop an infrastructure to fight pandemics (and removing structures put in place by the Obama administration). But, to borrow a phrase, “he alone” made the crisis infinitely worse by doing nothing for so long when leaders around the world were responding forcefully.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/03/18/trumps-lie-is-worse-than-truth/

[Bev54]

1. He can't keep up with his lies

Today he said the virus snuck up on them. He is such a moron.

[SunSeeker]

5. Trump was given a huge weeks-long heads up and utterly squandered it.

His self-centeredness, incompetence and mendacity will end up costing hundreds of thousands of lives, maybe 2.2 million lives, per this London study:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-britain-research-idUSKBN2141EP

[dalton99a]

7. The blood is on his hands and the hands of Republicans

[SCantiGOP]

2. A week ago I would have disagreed with the OP

Bush ignoring the "Osama determined to strike inside US" memo seemed to me to be locked in as the all-time winner.
3,000+ people died on 9/11 (and millions more because Cheney lied us into the worst war in our history), but this has the potential to be far more crippling to our long-term economy and way of life, and to kill far more than the people killed when the towers came down.

[Kitchari]

3. Osama

Is what I think you meant

[SCantiGOP]

4. Oh my god, I'll fix it

I did say Obama. Typo, brain fart, or have I been infected with the Trump virus? Will I next be blaming the stock market crash on Hillary and Hunter Biden?

[Kitchari]

8. I knew what you meant

[SunSeeker]

6. A London study says 2.2 million Americans will die from Covid-19 under Trump's watch.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-britain-research-idUSKBN2141EP

And of course it will cost us trillions in lost jobs, economic disruption and bankruptcies.

This will be much worse than Dubya's stock market crash and Iraq War debacle COMBINED.