As if to underscore the point, DeVos tweeted that she was “honored to witness this historical inauguration”—using the word “historical” where “historic” should have been. She later deleted the tweet and blamed her staff for the mistake. Three years to the day after the inauguration, the first person in the United States, a man in Washington state, was diagnosed with the novel coronavirus, starting the symbolic clock on the Trump administration’s inaction in the face of a deadly pandemic.
