This is why I don't even think about Trump's base, politically. They're about 35% of the country and they will never budge. They'll vote for him until eternity. The battle is for that 10-12% outside of the base who hated Clinton and decided to give Trump a shot. Well he fukked it up, hard to deny now. And as the deaths pile up and he lashes out at the media even more, it'll look worse.
His base was all aboard the "hoax" bandwagon until Trump started admitted hundreds of thousands of people will die. And even still there's a big group of Trump stans who are claiming it's just the flu and Trump needs to kick the doctors out of his circle and "re-open" the economy before socialism wins. At some point Trump is gonna change course again and start demanding we get back to normal, just watch. And his people will die.