While the coronavirus has given Trump ample opportunity to take up the mantle of national leader and appear presidential at the White House, there's plenty to criticize in his handling of the crisis -- he's overly optimistic about treatments, brags about his early response for accomplishing more than it did.And the pandemic will likely rob Trump of what has, heretofore, been his main argument for reelection -- a booming stock market, low unemployment and a strong economy.

He was getting maybe more credit than he deserved for those things, which were helped by his tax cuts, but also in the works long before he took office. But he may also get more blame than he deserves if the economy does not bounce back quickly from the Covid-19 shutdown.