Why do you think he did it.

[Le Roi de Pot]

Providing leadership for COVID is such soft ball for ANY President ...You just have to listen to the experts, be forthright and people will rally around you ... had Trump done the NORMAL thing- I bet his electoral prospects would be different. Instead he fought everyone and carved a disastrous path that he forced America to take.


It defies logic. Question is why?


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There could have been more than one driver , I get it -- but choose what you think is the primary reason for his behavior.

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	Because he is Fucking Stupid and doesn't know his elbow from his arse.
	10 (42%)
	He is not stupid - but thought the move to shutdown would hurt his businesses. It was a business decision
	3 (13%)
	He did not want to seem 'Weak'
	8 (33%)
	He was worried about the economy
	1 (4%)
	He was just following his master Putin's orders
	0 (0%)
	He thought Covid only affects Blacks and Latinos - best to kill as many of them as possible
	0 (0%)
	It was a Blue state problem initially - and he would not help states that did not vote for him.
	2 (8%)
	0 DU members did not wish to select any of the options provided.
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[OAITW r.2.0]

1. That's the $420MM question.

[BainsBane]

2. Do you mean the entire COVID situation or

his latest behavior? If it's the former, I don't believe the correct option is up there.
He was feeding into existing conspiracy theories about the virus as a hoax, playing to the worst among us. Then, I think, the fact he thought it was primarily in the blue states was a silver lining, but he's kept it up even as the red states have become hotspots.

[Le Roi de Pot]

3. Entire Covid .. and he knew it was serious based on BW tapes

He knew

[Cracklin Charlie]

4. I think he's kinda cracked.

Normal people don’t talk and act this way. They just don’t. None of this is normal.

The fact that we all have to discuss his mental illness, without calling it mental illness is gonna make us all crazy.

[yardwork]

5. Pretty much all of the above.

[LeftInTX]

6. A combination of things

Mainly, he didn't want to hurt his re-election and he did not want to hurt the economy. The GOP truly believe the economy should be as unregulated as possible, even if it means workforce is lost due to illness etc. They are shortsighted.

Other reasons: Blue state problem, it effects minorities worse than white people. (I don't think it's a deliberate attempt to kill them, it's just that they don't give a fuck)

[Vivienne235729]

7. He is clearly a madman. But I also think he has an irrational fear of looking "weak"

And the things he thinks look weak are really off the wall. It is a glimpse into a really f*cked up psyche.

[stillcool]

8. he did it for Donald Trump

His re-election is apparently his only reason for living. Anything that he perceives to stand in the way of that, must be gone. I think that herd immunity was decided as the way to proceed from the get-go, or some version of do nothing and let it work out by itself.

[Mr. Ected]

9. I think he wanted to create more chaos on Election Day

By causing more mail-in votes, and since he could manipulate the operations of the Post Office, he controlled that as well.

[Le Roi de Pot]

10. That came much later .... doesnt explain his behavior from Jan/Feb

[Doreen]

11. All of the above.

Except the second one.

[tinrobot]

12. For him, it all boils down to ego and/or money.

Being in the hotel business means a shutdown would have been catastrophic for his finances, which are already shaky. I think that was a prime factor in his rush to reopen.

Plus, his ego makes him want to appear strong, though his perception of strong is misplaced. That's why he kept doubling down on the denials.

[Le Roi de Pot]

16. That is exactly my theory

The decisions were influenced by his financial interests

[lagomorph777]

17. It's money. See this:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/trump-covid-19-treatment-president-had-stakes-in-regeneron-and-gilead-makers-of-antibody-cocktail-remdesivir/ar-BB19FW2o

He is profiting from our deaths.

[RainCaster]

13. It was missing the "Because he has a small penis" option

That makes as much sense as anything else.

[mahina]

14. Because he is afraid and has a lizard brain

Apology to lizards

[lagomorph777]

15. He has investments in Remdesivir and Regeneron. He makes money on people's deaths.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/trump-covid-19-treatment-president-had-stakes-in-regeneron-and-gilead-makers-of-antibody-cocktail-remdesivir/ar-BB19FW2o

[BootinUp]

18. An opportunity to further divide the country. Nt

[Beringia]

19. He told Woodward the virus was deadly, and yet he let himself catch it

I really can't get inside of that kind of thinking. It really is tin pot dictator scenario. I suppose he is capable of causing any malady, in a sort of back yourself into it, kind of way.

[WyattKansas]

20. I think tRUMP has evolved his thinking since January.

1) Blue State problem that he wanted to hurt before the election and wanted to benefit on making money for the tRUMP Empire with supplies.

2) It threatened his properties from making money.

3) He tried to use it to insure that he would win re-election.

4) He has now been trying to use it to steal the election.

5) He is now used it along with hatred he poured gasoline on to cancel and/or rule the election invalid, unless he is the winner.

6) He is making sure that he kills as many Americans as he can for not making him successful and is trying to leverage extremely favorable terms to go away as the bigliest and bestest president ever.

[GeorgeGist]

21. Malignant narcissism.