PAUL BEDARD: Historian: Trump best to handle virus crisis, ‘born for this moment.’

It’s been just shy of three months since the administration took its first action to fight off the coronavirus spread, and historians are already sizing up President Trump’s leadership.

Most have focused on what they view as his “offensive” use of the term “China virus.”

But author, historian, and former presidential adviser Doug Wead, who has followed every president since Gerald R. Ford, has been doing a back-of-the-envelope comparison of how the seven most recent presidents would have handled the crisis — and if they would have been successful.

The current fight favors a president quick to decide, willing to let businesses help out, friendly with the media, and with “a deep desire to do it right,” said Wead, whose latest book is Inside Trump’s White House: The Real Story of His Presidency.

Of the seven, he told us none had everything going for them, but two had three of four needed traits: Trump and Bill Clinton.

Hmm.