But now, Trump claims he knew it was a pandemic before anyone else. Lol. His cult must have a very short memory, they seem to have forgotten that he claimed it was all under control and nothing to worry about.
I don't blame Trump with the way the media have been doing lately.
No one really knew what could happen. It could just be like SARS so why create panic and hysteria.
Beside, anyone with a brain will realized that there is no way to stop the spread of this virus. The only way is to shut the whole country down at the very beginning. Even then it would have been too late already since majority of American and foreigner have gone back to their country without symptom.
And we all know what would happened if Trump order the country shut down as soon as we heard about it from China. The libs/dems media would have a field day with him by calling him a racists, just as they did with his policy to vet people coming from Obama admin designated Middle East countries with high risk of terrorists. We all know what that turn out to be.
If Trump have reacted quickly, and this virus turn out to be nothing... He'll get criticized for acting irrationally. You can't satisfied haters no matter what you do.