Former President Barack Obama said he gave ex-President Donald Trump a pandemic playbook when Trump took office — but he disregarded it.
“He ignored it,” Obama said during a rallyfor Vice President Kamala Harris in Las Vegas on Saturday. “And three years later, a pandemic hits.”
I remember this. They lost it.
Everyone knew for decades that a zoonotic corona virus was coming. We even knew it would likely come from China.
There was a whole plan for what to do. Treatment strategies, logistics, economic and national security issues, and Trump’s people literally said they lost it.
Trump ignored Obama’s playbook AND he fired his own team leader; he fired the admiral in charge of pandemic response because that admiral was freinds with another staffer Trump didn’t like.
https://www.science.org/content/article/inside-story-how-trumps-covid-19-coordinator-undermined-cdc
trump ignored everything everyone gave him. except putin’s marching orders
The real question is: if Obama gave Trump an obviously terrible plan, with the goal to let as many people die as possible, would Trump have gone out of his way to save each and everyone - simply out of spite for Obama?
Of course he wouldn’t have, but I like the idea.
No, he would have rejected it in favor of a plan he made himself that enriched his friends and family and blamed the ensuing chaos on Obama.