The narcissist uses his power to make people bow down to him, while caring nothing about others, even as he kills them.

He personally corrected the text of his speech to say "Chinese virus" instead of "coronavirus".

The Daily Beast speculates that this was meant to distract non-supporters from his bad decisions. I think it was meant to distract his supporters from them also.

The narcissist was told in January that Covid-19 might kill over a million Americans. Everything he has done to interfere was after hearing that danger.