Trump's coronavirus response an absolute chaotic disaster: Obama
Former US President Barack Obama has described Donald Trump's coronavirus response as an "absolute chaotic disaster".
The Hill ran a CNN report citing a call on Friday night between Obama and his former aides.
In the report, three former Obama administration officials confirmed that in a private conversation Obama strongly criticized the Trump administration for the “absolute chaotic disaster” response to the coronavirus crisis.
In the call, the Democratic ex-president encouraged members of the Obama Alumni Association to support the presidential campaign of former Vice President Joe Biden in 2020 race against the Republican candidate, Trump.
"This election ... is so important because what we're going to be battling ... [is] being selfish, being tribal, being divided and seeing others as an enemy".
Obama went to say that beating Trump in the upcoming election was winning over the "what’s in it for me" mindset that has become the "stronger impulse in American life."
He criticized Trump's shortsightedness and poor managerial skills, pointing out that the current president's mindset was "part of the reason why the response to this global crisis has been so anemic and spotty."
He noted that the COVID-19 outbreak was a bad situation; however, he insisted that Trump's flawed way of thinking had made it worse for everybody. "It would have been bad even with the best of governments. It has been an absolute chaotic disaster when that mindset of 'what's in it for me' and 'to heck with everybody else' ... is operationalized in our government."
He said Trump's abortive response to the coronavirus crisis was the reason behind why he was "going to be spending as much time as necessary and campaigning as hard as I can for Joe Biden."
Trump’s irresponsible and poor handling of the health crisis has been noted by other critics as a major flaw of his administration.
The critics assess Trump's executive incompetence as a major reason for the disaster across the country.
Daniel Lazare, a journalist and author from New York, described the administration's response to the crisis as “scandalous”.
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