"You're fired!", when he was a mere candidate running for the job. The cry grew louder as Trump trampled the Constitution, defied the rule of law, and broke norms sacred to America during its 250-odd year history. It took a global pandemic to prove just how disastrous was the administration Trump had installed over three years.
The brazen renegade Trump drew adherents as any flamboyant daredevil does. Once in the office on a technicality assisted by foreign powers as yet unknown, Trump used the vast powers of his office to lasso conservatives into his orbit and keep them spinning with skills perfected over a lifetime. Those skills came to a crashing halt when the Coronavirus pandemic hit and the slow Trump response set the pace for the dissolution of the Trump facade..
The primary Trump skills of bluster and fabrication failed to spin the reality that people were dying and that the economy was paralyzed. So was Trump himself as evidence proved that his methods were counterproductive to managing a crisis.
The Trump toolbox of survival mechanisms has no Swiss army knife for unlocking empathy. As a lifelong real estate con artist, Trump may be adept at reading potential gullible targets, but he proved sorely lacking when the stakes were in the serious form of American life and livelihood. If Trump were a reasonably rational human being, the pandemic, the ensuing economic crisis and the George Floyd racial murder would have been pivot points for coalescing human sentiment to jointly address the crisis. Trump chose his own ancient path of divide and conquer to win support. The tactic seriously backfired and the Trump response was to double down on the message..
