To poke at some of this...
Some, maybe. On the other hand, there's also been a heck of a lot of belittling the actual danger to the US that he truly does represent, with the note that while he himself is an immediate danger for a number of reasons, he's in a position to be that danger because of larger and less acute underlying problems. Going further, incredibly different standards are nearly always applied to him compared to even Bush, though, much less Obama.
Personally, I would very greatly prefer that Trump and co actually were doing a good job and have ever been happy to offer praise for actions that I thought objectively warranted it. Unfortunately, the overwhelming majority of "good" things that he's done or been praised for that have reached me have been a combination of lies (US Steel is opening 6 Steel Plants!), deeply misleading spin (the deficit went down in Trump's first couple days, so things are going in a good direction with that!), empty (how many Kushner committees were/are there?), things that actually are good, but are greatly overshadowed by all the many things that he had done and was doing to make that particular problem worse (Actions related to the opioid crisis, for example), and so on. The very dishonesty involved in so much of that, of course, is a distinct problem itself.
I can understand this, but... Reality is reality and the "boy who cried wolf" is fundamentally wrong, for most of it. Trump and the GOP have done a decent job at convincing a lot of people who wish that it was the boy crying wolf to believe what they want - in fair part because they tend to be very good at creating simple false equivalences that sell well because reality is complex and understanding things well tends to take very significant additional time and energy. Time and energy that pretty much all people really, really don't have either ability or an interest in sparing for it, especially when Trump and the GOP flood the news space with so very, very much that people would need to spare time for to understand and digest the picture in reality. Trump involved in truly massive tax fraud, for example? That story lasted for what, 2 days? With other instances of his tax frauds maybe lasting a news cycle? This is not normal. This is not okay. We absolutely should not be letting it be treated as okay, which is exactly what is effectively being done.
To poke at one of those minor things, though... On March 8,
Trump literally tweeted a picture of himself fiddling.
As they suck up to him and tell him what he makes it perfectly clear that he wants to hear? Trump claims that he "feels" a lot of things that tend to be wildly wrong in reality. He's a con man, after all, and that honestly should not be forgotten through all this.
The rest of that post was already dealt with well enough, so I'll move on.
Mmm. There's reasonable criticism and there's unreasonable criticism. Before going further, though -
It looks like you're making a number of major fundamental errors in your base assumptions, given this statement. I will hold back for the moment, though, given that much of it's been covered by others. I will point out simply that decent preparations and plans were in place. So what's gone wrong? Those plans did not account for Trump's idiotic method of "handling" the situation and the Trump Administration's prior extensive sabotage of the response capabilities of the Federal Government and their very slow and chaotic response, though. The US, pre-Trump, was rated as one of the most prepared countries in the world to deal with this kind of thing. Now, it looks like third world countries will likely to be able to cheer themselves up with how much better they are than the US at this.
This bears repeating, again and again. The numbers, especially the early numbers, are very inaccurate because of how FUBAR the testing situation has been. Only 200 cases? How many tests were even available and processed in the wildly inefficient way that the CDC's employing? I'm hearing that test results now have been taking a week to process in some cases, for example. Hopefully, the increases in testing production is catching up - but we don't truly know. That's how bad the situation is, right now. A week or two ago, I saw an estimate from a lab that testing production would likely take 8 more weeks before it was in a good place for the US and I'm guessing that that doesn't take into account the shortages in several necessary components, much as those will hopefully be resolved by then.
The incredible (and previously pretty much unthinkable) failure of testing and test production - in large part because of how the Trump Administration completely bungled it - is probably the single biggest failure of this whole mess.
Health workers, too, for that matter, especially if it becomes more commonplace that PPE consists of, for example, wearing trash bags. As has already happened. That's assuming that the pool of health care workers is sufficiently intact, of course.
The Trump EPA has been more focused on undermining and destroying protections than enforcing them, regardless, and the political appointees have been working hard to turn it into an agency to help businesses exploit and profit, rather than regulate their activities in the public interest. Also, link not working, but the story's being reported across a variety of outlets, including Fox, by the google.
