His hands were pretty tied. If he didn’t double down on it, the world would still shut down and he’d be called a mass murderer. It was a battle he couldn’t get around, so he instead decided to fight it better than they could have imagined by closing the borders immediately, etc.
He also let them make any stupid request and would consistently over-deliver just to shut them up. Look at the ventilators. Now we are shipping ventilators around the world because Trump got all the ventilators Democrats could ask for. Pretty hard to push their “not enough ventilators!” talking point when we are literally giving ventilators away now because we have too many.
Thinking about it, it’s very telling that they thought they’d stump a business man with an issue of meeting demand. Suddenly the world has more ventilators than it even needs.
His hands were pretty tied. If he didn’t double down on it, the world would still shut down and he’d be called a mass murderer. It was a battle he couldn’t get around, so he instead decided to fight it better than they could have imagined by closing the borders immediately, etc.
He also let them make any stupid request and would consistently over-deliver just to shut them up. Look at the ventilators. Now we are shipping ventilators around the world because Trump got all the ventilators Democrats could ask for. Pretty hard to push their “not enough ventilators!” talking point when we are literally giving ventilators away now because we have too many.
Thinking about it, it’s very telling that they thought they’d stump a business man with an issue of meeting demand. Suddenly the world has more ventilators than it even needs.