Herbert Hoover was not the man of the moment. However, he was an incredibly skilled politician who cared for the country. He played a big role in the economic development of Europe today: his excellent execution of the Marshall's Plan was nowhere near an easy feat.

"Trump was the first person to respond to COVID." Globally, the first official response (outside of Wuhan, China) came from [Taiwan](https://covid19.mohw.gov.tw/en/sp-timeline0-206.html) on Jan. 23rd as enforced travel restrictions, a heightened safety measure from their initial travel screenings for symptoms that began on Dec. 31. POTUS restricted travel on Jan. 31. Nationally, the CDC implemented screenings for symptoms at airports in S.F., L.A., and New York on Jan.17. POTUS's [first responsive action](https://www.defense.gov/Spotlights/Coronavirus-DOD-Response/Timeline/) occurred on Jan.29 with the formation of the COVID-19 interagency task force. The naval ship the ["Comfort"](https://www.businessinsider.com/usns-comfort-nyc-coronavirus-timeline-2020-4#that-same-day-before-the-ship-started-taking-coronavirus-patients-a-crew-member-tested-positive-for-the-disease-this-is-despite-the-fact-that-the-crew-was-ordered-to-quarantine-for-two-weeks-before-their-departure-9) was redirected to New York, and after its setup and subsequent refusal to treat COVID patients, the 1,000-bed capacity ship admitted 20 patients on its initial day in harbor. On the opposite side of the country, Washington was due to receive the desperate in need of aid from the second naval ship ["Mercy"](https://www.yahoo.com/video/trump-reportedly-redirected-navy-hospital-181555518.html) that was on course to Seattle, only for Trump to redirect it again to California's coast instead because CA Gov. Gavin Newsom had said some 'nice things' about him. A bipartisan of state governors [begged Trump](https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/20/politics/defense-production-act-trump/index.html) to invoke the powers of the Defense Production Act so that they could provide their local communities with the life-saving medical supplies they needed. Pleas that were met with empty assurances of good faith that he'd come through, yet no actions were taken to back up those claims until finally on March 27th Trump followed through with his countless claims to do so. Trump called on [six companies](https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/03/coronavirus-trump-used-defense-production-act-on-these-companies-so-far.html) to fulfill the demands of the Defense Production Act, issuing public statements to each on March 27th to start production on critically needed ventilators. [General Electric](https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/23/coronavirus-fallout-ge-aviation-to-cut-10percent-of-its-us-workforce.html) — one of the six — released a statement on March 23rd claiming their health care unit would step up production on the needed, but in short supply of, medical equipment. Royal Phillips and Hill-Rom — two more of the six — released similar statements about ramping up the production of needed medical supplies (Royal Phillips on March 22nd and Hill-Rom on March 24th) prior to being "called upon" by Trump. In an October 2020 [ad campaign](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/fauci-trump-handling-covid/) for Trump's re-election, Dr. Anthony Fauci can be seen and heard saying, “I can’t imagine that… anybody could be doing more.” The brief clip of Fauci was originally from an interview with Mark Levin on the Fox News Channel show “Life, Liberty & Levin” in March 2020. The statement made in reference to the members of the task force that this fragmented audio blurb was pulled from is: "I’m not the only one. There’s a whole group of us that are doing that. It’s every single day. So **I can’t imagine that** under any circumstances that **anybody could be doing more.** I mean, obviously, we’re fighting a formidable enemy — this virus. This virus is a serious issue here." Fauci went so far as to release a statement following the release of the ad claiming that his words were taken out of context. I'm disregarding all your Biden references, because I am not a Biden supporter as you so incorrectly assumed, therefore invalidating their relevance in the point you were trying to make. Maybe Trump didn't hold the ["Stop the Steal"](https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/1/11/full-transcript-donald-trump-january-6-incendiary-speech) rally on Jan. 6th with the intention of hyping up a group of his supporters until they reached mob mentality violence. But he did in fact make brash statements like: "We’ve done things like nobody’s ever thought possible. And that’s part of the reason that many people don’t like us, because we’ve done too much, but we’ve done it quickly. And we were going to sit home and watch a big victory. And everybody had us down for a victory. It was going to be great. And now we’re out here fighting." "And again, most people would stand there at 9:00 in the evening and say, ‘I want to thank you very much,’ and they go off to some other life, but I said, ‘Something’s wrong here. Something’s really wrong. Can’t have happened.’ And we fight. We fight like Hell and if you don’t fight like Hell, you’re not going to have a country any more." "So we’re going to, we’re going to walk down Pennsylvania Avenue, I love Pennsylvania Avenue, and we’re going to the Capitol and we’re going to try and give … The Democrats are hopeless. They’re never voting for anything, not even one vote. But we’re going to try and give our Republicans, the weak ones, because the strong ones don’t need any of our help, we’re going to try and give them the kind of pride and boldness that they need to take back our country." But maybe his frenetic ramblings didn't incite insurgency and instead inspired peace. If there were police letting people in then there weren't many, because the [Capitol assault](https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/11/us/politics/capitol-riot-police-officer-injuries.html) was one of the worst incidents resulting in injured law enforcements in the U.S. since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. 140 officers — 73 from the Capitol Police and 65 from the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington — were injured. Some with minor bruising and lacerations and others sustaining more serious damage like concussions, rib fractures, burns and even a mild heart attack. Tragically, Officer Brian Sicknick died from injuries sustained “while physically engaging with protesters'' that day. Limiting the entry of certain Immigrants, slowing green card applications, refusing refugees, freezing travel Visa programs, and implementing wealth tests to punish those that use public benefits aren't matters of [reinforcing laws](https://www.afsc.org/blogs/news-and-commentary/trumps-attacks-legal-immigration-system-explained). They're public policies created catering to the agenda of white nationalists. I'm not going to waste my time going over the whole 'Paris accords being a joke' statement as I get the feeling you're probably someone who doesn't believe in climate change. And Russia? Well, scum recognizes scum so Putin was probably just biding his time until his buddy was no longer in office, but that's pure speculation of my own opinion.