"There's no coherent leadership. It's chaotic. The presidency, the White House, is in the hands of a sociopathic megalomaniac who's interested in nothing but his own power, electoral prospects – doesn't care what happens to the country, the world," Chomsky said in a scathing criticism of Trump's handling of the pandemic.
"The president himself has said that it's none of his business. He's said that the federal government can't do anything. Nothing really matters except his personal power and gain. Of course he has to maintain the support of his primary constituency, which is great wealth and corporate power," he said, adding: "There's 90,000 deaths and there will be a lot more.... There's no coordinated plan."
Chomsky reiterated that the U.S. "is a privatized society, very wealthy, with enormous advantages – far more than any other country – but it's in the stranglehold of private control. It doesn't have a universal health care system.... It's the ultimate neoliberal system, actually."