CNS Fellow and CNN’s national security analyst, Peter Bergen, writes that President Trump has failed to rise to the occasion when a crisis emerges as other Presidents have. He opines that Trump’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic “underlines eight of his key failings as a leader:” “[he] doesn't do any homework,” “He always believes he knows more than the experts about any given subject,” “ Trump trusts his own gut,” “Trump has increasingly surrounded himself with a team of acolytes who will not challenge him,” “it's hard for the public to believe a President who has made more than 16,000 false or misleading claims in his first three years in office … at a time when the administration desperately needs the trust of the American public,” “Trump always blames the messenger for news he doesn't like, and he has been doing a lot of that when it comes to the coronavirus,” “Trump is the reverse of President Harry Truman,” “ Trump almost always plays the divider-in-chief, not the uniter-in chief.”
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