His lack of qualification to be a national leader has been on public display. For more than two months he denied that there was even a crisis and did nothing to prepare the country for the pandemic. As a result, we currently have the world’s highest number of COVID-19 deaths and are in one of the steepest recessions in living memory. Today America’s performance is lagging that of Europe by a huge amount, and Trump is pretending that the crisis is over.

