the states locked down to trump’s chagrin.
and there are internal documents that it was very much a left vs right issue as he deliberately downplayed the virus because it would hit blue states harder than red states.
Actually, for several months going into the November U.S. Presidential Elections...
Trump claimed it was only the Democratic-run states that were closed or shut down.
In fact, I remember earlier in the summer of 2020, Trump stated at one of his rallies that the Republican-run states were not lockdown in comparison to the Democratic-run states that were lockdown. The crown at the rally cheered him insanely.

In fact, Trump blamed the governors of the Democratic-run states for locking down the economy of those states.
In reality, we all know the United States economy had been shut down including the border for a while. Yet, we need to keep in mind that the shutdown of the U.S. economy in a Pandemic that had no vaccines and no approved medical treatments at that moment in time...
The shutdown saved 900k to 2.7 million lives after they compared the number of deaths avoided through extreme lockdown measures with the number of deaths that might be expected from the long-term effects of the economic shutdown.
Regardless of how Trump twisted the narrative about whom shut down the U.S. economy...he consistently blamed it on China and the U.S. governors. At last check, the U.S. governors fall under the Trump administration...not China. Just as important, the Republican-run states are part of the United States.
Simply, when the United States shut down...the Republican-run states also shut down. Unfortunately, the Trump administration mishandling and misinformation / disinformation during the Pandemic made it much worst for the American people than it needed to be...the latter he could not blame on China but attempted to blame it on Biden / Harris when we all know Biden was not President at that point in time (summer of 2020)
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