Again I have no interest in defending Trump.
Yes I think he would have done better than Biden hands down but I think most presidents would have done better.
You say Trump fed up with covid yet when he shut down travel to China Biden called him a racist. He also said he wouldn't take the "Trump vaccine". If I were a betting man I would bet that it would have been far worse under Biden as he clearly was not taking it very serious at first.
You can claim that Trumps policies are trash but policies are debatable. Different views on the same subjects...your view isn't fact. That said if you think his policies suck then ok. You can list as many as you like...no problem. Knock yourself out.
Also we already had a vaccination by the time Biden came in office. It was all an unknown when it first hit and Biden absolutely did not have to deal with it in the same way Trump did. So lets not act like covid was this massive challenge for Biden. And as far as gas prices, inflation, Afghanistan, the border issue and so ....well you can argue he was somewhat responsible for those...at least in part. I mean he went after oil and gas right off the bat just like he said he would. He also said on public tv that he would turn anyone away....I wonder why the massive surge once he came in office. Afghanistan was his mess and not Trumps. Most people don't have issues with pulling out but not the way he did it. Anyway we can go back and forth...got work to do. Take it easy.
Of course most presidents would have done better than Biden. Most presidents would have done way better than Trump too. Trump and Biden are near the bottom of the barrel, and Biden beat Trump because Trump was the bottom.
As for stupid things said during COVID, let's not forget that Trump praised China and China's dictator's handling of COVID until it was obvious China lied to us and it was too late. Trump buried his head in the sand by ignoring the problem, then downplaying the problem...until it was too late. Then Trump switched to blaming China, blaming Democrats, blaming everyone else, etc. Trump not only harmed the fight against COVID by pretending it didn't exist or was overblown and doing nothing about it, but he also started threatening states that implemented state & local lockdowns.
So yeh, Biden said some stupid things about COVID, while Trump topped that stupidity by both saying stupid things AND implementing stupid policies.
And of course COVID wasn't a massive challenge for Biden. Just like the economy and Russia wasn't a challenge for Trump because Trump was riding on Obama's coat-tails of an economic boom from 2011, then printed a few trillion dollars more to prop up the stock market even more, and was acting like a useful fool for Putin to undermine NATO. So you have 1 challenge for Trump that Trump screwed up, and maybe 2-2.5 challenges (lingering COVID + Russia + inflation & recession) for Biden that he screwed up.
As for the border situation, Biden screwed up, and Trump was maybe marginally better....which is sad because Republicans usually have much better policies than Democrats on this. Trump didn't put funding into stuff that would actually work at stopping illegal immigration - such as cracking down on illegal immigrant employers (maybe because Trump hires them for cheap?) and creating a national E-verify system. Instead, Trump put money into useless but politically flashy stuff like increasing the size and height of the border wall (mostly in places that already had a wall). And he screwed that up by giving billions in corrupt no-bid contracts to companies that donated money to him even though they have no wall building experience and built shoddy construction walls that have to be repaired because they're falling apart.
As for Afghanistan, yes, Biden screwed up. But let's not forget Trump had the same policy on Afghanistan as Biden with a fixed timeline on withdrawal. The screwup in the Afghanistan withdrawal was the fixed timetable that emboldened the Taliban and caused the pullout to happen too fast. Trump likely would not have been much different in Afghanistan considering Biden decided to basically blindly follow Trump's plan that stuck closely to a firm timeline that Trump had negotiated with the Taliban during his term. So for Trump to have done any different, Trump would've had to tear up his own agreement that was negotiated under him.
As for Trump's policies being bad is debateable...sure - just like how Biden's policies being bad are debateable too, right? If we are to talk about the increase of illegal immigration under Biden, we can also talk about how the trade deficit increased every year after Trump took office, how the annual deficit increased under Trump, how the national debt increased to over 30 trillion under Trump, etc.
And we know that many Trump's economic policies are actually not much different than Biden's economic policies (low interest, massive stimulus, high deficit spending, QE, propping up stock markets, etc) so it is reasonable to say that Trump's results in the long term would have gotten us to the same path Biden gotten us today if they had the same/very similar policies.
And there is at least one of Trump's policy/action that we can confidentially say was uniquely bad and only attributable to him, it would be his election fraud conspiracy. This election conspiracy that was refuted as nonsense by his own cabinent and many of his own supporters in the executive & state governments, by his Republican allies in Congress, by conservative judges that Republicans appointed, etc...and then his subsequent inflammatory language led to a riot in the capital where people threatened to lynch the vice president. So far, Biden has not done anything at that level of insanity (yet).