Proof positive that Donald Trump is a total failure

Bill Palmer | 9:15 pm EDT March 14, 2020

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We all know Donald Trump sucks as a president. But plenty of other presidents have sucked before him, right? Is he really the worst? Is he a 100% total failure, or does it just feel like he’s the worst president of all time because we’re currently having to suffer through his tenure?

This missive from Former CDC Director Tom Frieden helps put things in perspective:

Facts matter. Pres GW Bush improved pandemic prep including labs – international reagent resource @CDCgov. Under Pres Obama we further improved & provided tests to every state then >100 countries, created CDC Lab Division. Partisanship has no place when lives are at stake. https://t.co/v15E91SzHY

— Dr. Tom Frieden (@DrTomFrieden) March 13, 2020

In other words, yeah, George W. Bush was a terrible president who got most things wrong. But he apparently didn’t get everything wrong. Why did he improve pandemic preparation, even while making hurricane response prep worse? We don’t know. But the point is that if Bush were a total cartoon villain, he’d have cut back on pandemic preparation just out of spite – which is basically what Donald Trump did. Trump has failed so thoroughly, he’s failed on levels that we didn’t previously think existed.

Bill Palmer

Bill Palmer is the publisher of the political news outlet Palmer Report