That idea actually seems like a good demonstration of how corrosive politics actually is. Like, if you look at the actual evidence... France, whose current leader was hailed as the anti-Trump by the US media, is at about 1 Covid death per thousand (and they're not the worst-affected in Europe, not by a long shot), the US is at 1.2, former success story the Czech Republic is about 1.3. The evidence just doesn't seem to support the claim at all. Yet because the current President of the US is hated by the press, every right-thinking person knows otherwise.