Trump: All-Time Top Killer of Americans

Brian Scott MacKenzie
3 min readJan 7, 2021

Today — January 7, 2021 — serial loser Donald Trump finally finished first. His criminal mishandling of the coronavirus pandemic has now killed more Americans than any wartime enemy head of state in US history.

All-time top killers of Americans:

  1. US President Donald Trump, COVID-19: 371,278 US dead in 9 months
  2. Confederate President Jefferson Davis, Civil War: 370,000 US dead in 4 years
  3. Nazi Führer Adolf Hitler, World War II European Theater: 213,407 US dead in 4 years
  4. Japanese Emperor Hirohito, World War II Pacific Theater: 162,525 US dead in 4 years

FAQs

Is it fair to equate war deaths with pandemic deaths?

Yes. Trump has callously and consistently sacrificed American lives to fuel his futile bid to cling to power.

From the start, he has deceptively downplayed the lethal threat, spewed quackery and misinformation, suppressed testing to conceal the spread of the virus, ridiculed scientific and medical authorities, modeled and encouraged irresponsible behavior, held deadly superspreader rallies, mocked mask wearing and social distancing, excoriated and undermined science-informed state and local leaders for issuing stay home orders, and encouraged reckless economic…

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Brian Scott MacKenzie

History, politics, education, music, culture. Award-winning high school teacher, former principal. College instructor. Seahawks Diehard. Twitter: @brian_mrbmkz