I don't thank Trump for this and of course I don't know what another president would have done.
Here is what another president would have done, if he was working strictly for Americans, and not for himself or China:
1. Fired Fauci, Birx, Redfield, Hahn, and all the people in the top positions relating to public health and scientific research back in 2016. Then cleaned house in 2016 (which he failed to do) with honest, hardworking, patriotic Americans. Those evil conspirators had a plan to destroy America, and Trump gave their full authority to do so. RFK Jr has just recently publicly denounced this plot to destroy America.
2. Appointed an honest and knowledgeable top-notch scientist in 2016 to carefully research all the shenanigans that had been going on in connection with coronavirus since 2000, and to shut down everything. By 2020 there would have been total awareness of the COVID Conspiracy.
3. Shut down all funding for bio-weapon research, and thoroughly investigated FDA. CDC. NIH, NIAID, WHO, etc, and made sure that there would be no dishonest reporting by any of these liars. Then produced an honest report about what was really happening with Big Pharma and how China had already declared war on the USA, and how all this would be countered.
4. Deported all Chinese scientists, researchers, students, and secret agents from the USA with a total ban on immigration and travel from China. The CCP does not have an open door policy for the foreign devils (gwailo) from America, but America is the exact opposite and allowed the Chinese to flood the universities, research centers, and sensitive operations.
5. Made himself fully aware of the plans of the globalist elites and the Chinese to create a PLANDEMIC and then created a counter-plan to stop the sabotage of America and his presidency. In hindsight it looks like Trump was on the side of the conspirators.
6. Shut down all travel to and from China in January, 2020 until further notice. Also shut down all commerce with China until the matter of coronavirus was resolved to his satisfaction. At the same time brought back all the jobs and industries which had been handed to China on a sliver platter. Then made America self-sufficient while rooting out the traitors.
8. Appointed Dr. Vladimir Zelenko as the head of his Wuhan virus task force in March,. 2020. Zelenko would have made sure that no one died from coronavirus, and no evil propaganda would go forth from the task force against HCQ, ivermectin, etc.
9. Educated himself about viruses, natural immunity, and real vaccines, and made sure he was not conned into Operation Warp Speed. Trump had no excuse for failing to educate himself while allowing Dr. Death to control the narrative. There was a time when Trump stood with RFK Jr on the harmful effects of vaccines. Then he did an about face and now wants his base to get the jab. He was booed for even suggesting that.
10, Resisted all attempts at lockdowns, masking, distancing etc and carefully studied Sweden so that America would not be locked down. Canada would have followed suit, and pretty soon all the Western countries would have followed Sweden, and prevented the disaster which destroyed lives and businesses.