Some of Trump’s supporters are now arguing that his attempts to minimize the dangers of the virus were completely appropriate efforts to avoid panic and boost morale during wartime. Think of Churchill before and during the Battle of Britain, I guess.
If you like that analogy, ask yourself the following questions:
1. Did Churchill deny that France had fallen?
2. Did he tell the British public that the Nazis would just disappear magically in a few weeks, and were not a real threat?
3. Did he blame the BBC for the fall of France?
4. Did he take all of the credit for the RAF’s successes, and blame the military and his subordinates for their failures?
5. Did he tell the public that the mobilization of national resources for the struggle wasn’t his responsibility?
Didn’t think so.