With that in mind, he made his case that "Trump was the most incompetent President in modern American history." That was just internationally, with Bergen then pointing at how the Trump administration botched the response to COVID-19 in the U.S . "It was, above all, in his mishandling of the Covid-19 pandemic that Trump revealed his many weaknesses as a leader. Related to Trump's first failing was his second: He always believed he knew more than the experts about any given subject. "The first duty of the commander in chief is the protection of US citizens, and Trump clearly was derelict in this duty," he wrote before concluding, "In short, Trump was the most incompetent President in modern American history."

Source: New York Times May 30, 2022 21:40 UTC