Trump’s (mis)management of the COVID-19 pandemic in the US

Naim Kapucu and Donald Moynihan

Policy Studies, 2021, vol. 42, issue 5-6, 592-610

Abstract: Crises are a time when people look to their political leaders for action. For a President who was a master of shaping political narratives, COVID-19 offered an opportunity to use his messaging skills to steer the public response. Instead, COVID-19 revealed Trump’s long-standing inability to manage governance processes reflected in a series of failures in decision-making, communication, collaboration, and coordination and control. This article examines leadership qualities needed to successfully manage crisis and compares those qualities to President Trump’s actions during the COVID-19 pandemic. The case reveals how the lack of presidential leadership left the United States in a position of failure, characterized by high case rates, deaths, and an ongoing inability to establish a basic national consensus on how to respond to the pandemic.

Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1080/01442872.2021.1931671

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