Such over-focus on Trump is a pathological scapegoating to deflect responsibility on the part of both the professional permanent bureacracies, and the current administration.
Trump did awfully, yes. But the mistrust & errors spring from far deeper cultural issues, and repeated failures by the public health officials - in their mixed-messages, manipulative exagerrations, & arbitrary punitive actions. Vax resistance is at some of its highest levels in urban minority communities with no love for Trump.
If you go to trump community sites you'll find out that:
1. They think he's an idiot for taking the vax
2. They think he was threatened to taking it
3. He didn't really take itThe phenomena you describe suggest it's bigger & deeper than any devotion given him. (Is it even fair to call them "Trump community sites" at that point?)
The same former President who said he's "proud" to be vaccinated and wishes more people would get vaccinated? https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/donald-trump-pushes-...
The reason the US is not cohesive is precisely because of people like you.
This country is not cohesive because of such rabid, top down left leaning bias in our media, industry, and academia, which stereotypes, belittles, and alienates about 50% of the population.
There are numerous [1] points [2] where he could have changed [3] things and saved many many lives but decided it would help him politically to do the opposite.
The anti-vax movement is a monster he created, fed and hoped would net him a re-election. That it's turning on him now (that he's no longer in office) is sad but predictable.
[1] https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-downplaying-virus-mock...
[2] https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/02/politics/donald-trump-coronav...
[3] https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/calendar-confu...