The next day, he pronounced the testing system inadequate, and assailed the public-health bureaucracy,
Barack Obama and
Joe Biden for not fixing it before he became president.
Trump has been saying inaccurately for days that the public health system was up and ready to give access to diagnostic tests for COVID-19 for everyone who needed them.
In tweets Friday, he switched to blaming the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Obama administration, and seemed to hold them responsible for needless deaths in another pandemic.