US President Donald Trump thinks he’s doing a fabulous job getting the country through the coronavirus crisis. He’s more than happy to boast about it. “One of the things I did is I closed down the borders to China and to other areas that are very badly affected and really having a lot of troubles. ... I closed them down very early, against the advice of almost everybody, and we’ve been given rave reviews.”
But Trump spent weeks, if not months, downplaying the seriousness of the virus while pushing his political agenda of boosting his own brand and trying to shut down US borders.