President Donald Trump unveiled the United States' new policy on COVID-19 during the ABC News Town Hall Tuesday night, saying that he wants to create a "herd mentality." While Trump presumably meant "herd immunity," MSNBC host Rachel Maddow walked through the qualifications of the doctor who gave him that idea and why he has no idea what he's talking about.

At the top of her show, Maddow showed side-by-side examples of the recommendations sent to states with growing COVID-19 infections and how they have changed since Dr. Anthony Fauci is no longer Trump's chief adviser on the virus. In early September, the federal government sent a notice to South Dakota, saying that they were among the top 15 highest states with the coronavirus. They were in "the yellow zone," and there was a list of things that they should do to slow their spread. Chief among them was to institute a state-wide mask order.