Yep. I've said this for many months now - the greatest tragedy of Trump's COVID failure, and now his loss in the election, is that he had it in his hands to get everything he ever wanted, but he dropped it like a wide receiver with butter on his hands.
It's pathetically obvious that what Trump truly wants, over all else, is to be publicly hailed as a hero, to have everyone - literally everyone - sing his praises, like Julius Caesar riding into Rome at the head of a Triumph.
And he could have actually been such a hero, and actually been deserving of praise, if, at the start of this pandemic, he'd just gotten his head out of his ass long enough to listen to what all the specialists were telling him about how serious this would be, and what needed to be done to curb the damage. If he'd truly gotten out in front of this, and championed a national level effort at limiting the spread of the disease, and using some of the vast wealth of the US to offset some of the inevitable economic damage that was always going to happen, the US would have been much better off than it is, and he would have been the one responsible for that.
But like in a Greek Tragedy, his hubris was his downfall. He couldn't admit that something out of his control was going to mess up his lovely economy, and so he chose to just ignore it. And now he's not only paid the price at the polling stations, he's finally facing the truth that he'll never be Julius Caesar riding into Rome.