Donald Trump only cares about Donald Trump. He doesn’t care about you or the country. He only cares about exploiting this crisis to bail out his business and to get himself re-elected, thereby shielding himself from a series of indictments that surely await him if he loses. The sooner we embrace this easily-observable fact about Trump, the better equipped we’ll be to evaluate his decisions during these overlapping health and financial calamities.
The “Trump is all about Trump” maxim goes a long way to explaining his obsessive beer-funneling of a malaria drug called hydroxychloroquine down the gullets of COVID-19 victims.