drumpf only cares about the Dow, not americans, and he is not serving either

He could care less about the virus or people dying but he does care about the dow because the economy is the only card he has to play in 4 years of complete failure (and even that is a weak card since only businesses, not lower and middle class Americans, are prospering).

So he proclaims coronavirus a "hoax" and that his administration has this all under control. He hopes investors will relax and go back to buying up stocks. But the message he is sending isn't a calming one. The message he is sending by downplaying the virus and kneecapping the CDC's ability to be open with us about it is that there is NO ONE at the helm of the ship during this crisis. Businesses aren't stupid enough to believe this is all a hoax. What they WANT is to know that someone is leading the charge against this thing. To being some level of predictability to a very uncertain situation. And all they are getting is chaos. And the reaction of businesses and investors to chaos is ALWAYS to sell.

So his very attempts to calm markets are only making them WORSE, and at the same time he is doing nothing for the citizens worried about this either. Everything drumpf touches DIES.