Nobody said it had nothing to do with Trump and no I'm not a Navi so I don't make predictions.
You make predictions every day in all parts of your life. You don’t need to be a Navi, you need to be a rational person who makes the best decisions possible with the information available.
When you invest in the stock market, you are predicting that the market will rise. When you pull out, you are predicting that cash is safer or will perform better. When you purchase a home, you are predicting that the home value will rise. This is also true of small decisions, such as the decision to go anywhere or do anything. You are predicting that by driving somewhere you will arrive safely at your destination. The same for every other action you take in your life.
But NY performed worse than any other place too with our "amazing" governor and other similar local leaders calling the shots. Trumps rhetoric means nothing when its other people that are implementing the policies especially those that disagree with him and will do the exact opposite of his rhetoric anyway.
We have to do our personal hishtadlus but what happens ultimately is up to Hashem - I know you may not go for this line but even l'havdil Cuomo wrongly used it for the enormous amount of nursing home deaths in NY saying it was an "act of G-d". Not Trump and not Cuomo and not any other world leader are ultimately at fault or totally in control and I personally feel its important to realize that.
That’s great, and ultimately everything is up to Hashem. However if part of hishtadlus is voting in competent leaders it’s important to realize that Trump did *not* perform as competently as a replacement could have regarding COVID. Just like you decided his policies are good for Israel, the economy, etc. No, Cuomo did not perform too well either. That doesn’t mean a better President couldn’t have done a better job.
I never said nor believed NY has an “amazing” governor. You’re putting words and positions in my mouth. Trump’s actions rhetoric may not be everything but it certainly matters more than “nothing”.