We should all be able to agree that we ought to extend our elected leaders a little bit of grace in these situations, understanding that in light of such crappy information they had to plan for the worst. But we should also all be able to agree that our elected leaders have taken actions guided by political considerations.
There's a lot of things we whould be able to agree upon. Instead it's non-stop political sniping. "Oooh but Trump does it, too." Trump's finger-pointing is mainly to point out the hypocrisy of his critics. And to deservedly point the finger at China and the WHO.
Agree with most of your statements but not these two. in the first there is no way in hell you can say Trump planned for the worst in this situation. He was making jokes at rallies about it into March. He in no way should have even been having rallies if he was planning for the worst. We didn't get our ducks in a row when we had the chance. That wasn't planning for the worst.
In the 2nd, Trump's finger pointing is almost exclusively to push the blame off of himself. "obama didn't have testing system setup", "WHO gave us bad info", "governors didn't have their crap together", "media is blowing this up", "this will all go away in the summer", "such a nasty question" "stockpiles are empty" etc. etc. All paraphrasing of different excuses he made to very specific questions about why we didn't have testing together sooner, why are there delays in our national plan to this, etc. etc. He can only go back to one thing, he did a partial stop of people coming in from China. That's it. It wasn't enough. He in none of those situations is point out hypocrisy, he is only trying to get the blame off of his lap. Tune in right now and see him do it again.
Re your first point, watch the video. Crenshaw addresses that. Namely, had Trump shut down the economy back when only had a couple hundred deaths people - Dems included - would have lost their crap. It's a dumb talking point.
Re your second point, I agree Trump does a lot of finger pointing at others (I would also agree, as I've frequently said, that Trump is by and large an obnoxious bad person). But, uh, China and the WHO deserve a LOT of blame.