2. COVID-19 pandemic
Trump’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic will likely be remembered as one of the biggest disasters in North American history. Hundreds of thousands of people have passed away, and millions were unemployed.
On the day Donald Trump left office, there had been over 405,000 reported fatalities and more than 24.3 million confirmed coronavirus cases in the US. In fact, our country has the worst COVID-19 outbreak in the whole world. As of January 2021, the number of deaths caused by the pandemic was on the verge of exceeding the number of American service members killed during World War II.
Despite this, the former president downplayed the threat of the virus on multiple occasions and contradicted public-health experts. Trump even admitted that he was intentionally misleading the public. The reason? He wanted to avoid inducing panic.
