# Coronavirus will finish Trump's presidency

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**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [March 16, 2020, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-will-finish-trumps-presidency/849597 "2020-03-16T17:46:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2020, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-will-finish-trumps-presidency/849597/329 "2020-04-22T18:39:48Z")

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He’s already been banned, dude.

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**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2020, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-will-finish-trumps-presidency/849597/330 "2020-04-22T20:46:47Z")

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> [@HMS\_Irruncible](#):
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> It’s understandable. To me, Trump’s victory in 2016 felt like 9/11. The horror may happen again, but I won’t allow myself to be shocked by it.
> 
> But you’re right, that’s no excuse for throwing in the towel.

I think there were a lot of complacent Democrats in 2016. And I’m willing to bet there were some that were so complacent that they didn’t make it to the polls that year, just because they figured she had it locked up, so why bother.

So, no matter how good the polling ends up looking for Biden, I’m not letting myself get too optimistic. Optimism leads to complacency.

I’ve been picking up on a lot of things anecdotally that make me think that Biden can beat Trump. My good old boy financial advisor that excitedly told me that he thought Biden would be unstoppable with the right VP. My distant cousins in rural KY that gave me some surprising “likes” on an anti-Trump FB post. Plus I don’t think anyone I know that voted for Trump in 2016 will vote for him this year.

And the fact that I don’t see Trump moderating his message in any way that might broaden his base.

But I’m not going to get optimistic.

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**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2020, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-will-finish-trumps-presidency/849597/331 "2020-04-22T23:08:15Z")

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> [@Ann\_Hedonia](#):
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> And the fact that I don’t see Trump moderating his message in any way that might broaden his base.

He’s targeting (male) African Americans, I know, though I don’t know what his message to them is.

And I would say that between making an outreach past your base or not, trying is better than not.

I know who Trump is going for. Has Biden tried to go anywhere that he’s not already welcome?

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**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2020, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-will-finish-trumps-presidency/849597/332 "2020-04-22T23:48:36Z")

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> [@Reason10](#):
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> That’s pretty awful. It’s not surprising, though. Liberals are haters. Liberal Democrats are haters.
> 
> Trump has given this country the greatest economy of all time, with ZERO help from the Democrats. He is going to be reelected in a landslide. Even if the Democrats had someone who was electable, it’s not going to be even close.
> 
> You know that. It’s why you hate him and you’re glad those people are dead.
> 
> Awful.

Wow.  
He came and went so fast I didn’t even have a chance to see this…

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**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2020, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-will-finish-trumps-presidency/849597/333 "2020-04-23T01:32:43Z")

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> [@Sage\_Rat](#):
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> He’s targeting (male) African Americans, I know, though I don’t know what his message to them is.
> 
> And I would say that between making an outreach past your base or not, trying is better than not.
> 
> I know who Trump is going for. Has Biden tried to go anywhere that he’s not already welcome?

I don’t see evidence that he’s going any where at all- or doing anything at all -which is maddening. I haven’t seen any Biden ads on TV since the primary at all. I know we’re in the middle of a national crisis and all, but everyone’s at home captive to their TV screens, and Trump’s holding a two hour rally every day. He needs to show up.

Interestingly, I have seen a couple of really harsh anti-Trump commercials run by super-PAC’s - and when I look up the PAC’s they are Republican never-Trump groups. I don’t really get it, but at least someone’s running the ads that should be running.

> [@John\_DiFool](#):
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> Biden has had some recent ads, [this one](https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/493740-new-biden-ad-hits-trump-for-feuding-with-governors-over-coronavirus) hits Trump for his feuds with the various governors.

Yeah, it really needs to be seen. Too bad they haven’t actually run it on TV anywhere, it’s noted in your cite that they haven’t put any money behind it yet, but may start ad buys for it soon. The Biden campaign needs to wake up.

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**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2020, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-will-finish-trumps-presidency/849597/334 "2020-04-23T01:54:38Z")

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> [@Ann\_Hedonia](#):
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> I don’t see evidence that he’s going any where at all- or doing anything at all -which is maddening. I haven’t seen any Biden ads on TV since the primary at all. I know we’re in the middle of a national crisis and all, but everyone’s at home captive to their TV screens, and Trump’s holding a two hour rally every day. He needs to show up.
> 
> Interestingly, I have seen a couple of really harsh anti-Trump commercials run by super-PAC’s - and when I look up the PAC’s they are Republican never-Trump groups. I don’t really get it, but at least someone’s running the ads that should be running.
> 
> Yeah, it really needs to be seen. Too bad they haven’t actually run it on TV anywhere, it’s noted in your cite that they haven’t put any money behind it yet, but may start ad buys for it soon. The Biden campaign needs to wake up.

Thing is, Trump’s numbers continue to slide, and polls continue to show Biden up. And not just up nationally, but up in very specific, important states like Florida (sorry, can’t link right now on my phone). Why waste money attacking when Trump’s slitting his own throat?

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**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2020, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-will-finish-trumps-presidency/849597/335 "2020-04-23T02:09:36Z")

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> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#):
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> Thing is, Trump’s numbers continue to slide, and polls continue to show Biden up. And not just up nationally, but up in very specific, important states like Florida (sorry, can’t link right now on my phone). Why waste money attacking when Trump’s slitting his own throat?

Exactly. Those wonderful ads are currently targeted only in swing states. Not needed elsewhere at the moment.

Biden now has the best strategists in the country working on his behalf. Both Democrats _and_ Republicans. That super-PAC comprised of never-Trumpers? It includes Rick Wilson and Steve Schmidt, both top former Republican strategists. I wouldn’t presume to second guess them on how/where those ads are best targeted.

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**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2020, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-will-finish-trumps-presidency/849597/336 "2020-04-23T17:53:46Z")

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Predicted risk of different areas of the map:

> **[The South is likely to have America’s highest death rate from covid-19](https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2020/04/25/the-south-is-likely-to-have-americas-highest-death-rate-from-covid-19)**
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> It has unusually unhealthy residents and few ICU beds

I can’t see the article, beyond the image, but it seems to imply that they’re using age and population density to make the determination.

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**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/51bf81/32.png) [@Troy\_McClure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2020, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-will-finish-trumps-presidency/849597/337 "2020-04-23T19:01:15Z")

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> [@Sage\_Rat](#):
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> Predicted risk of different areas of the map:
> 
> [The South is likely to have America’s highest death rate from covid-19](https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2020/04/25/the-south-is-likely-to-have-americas-highest-death-rate-from-covid-19)
> 
> I can’t see the article, beyond the image, but it seems to imply that they’re using age and population density to make the determination.

Mostly correlation with poor health and few hospitals:

> [@](#):
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> If covid-19 does infect most Americans, the highest death rates will probably not be in coastal cities—whose density is offset by young, healthy, well-off populations and good hospitals—but rather in poor, rural parts of the South and Appalachia with high rates of heart disease and diabetes.

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**Post date:** [April 23, 2020, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-will-finish-trumps-presidency/849597/338 "2020-04-23T21:45:49Z")

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I admit I don’t have a cite for this, but I have a strong hunch that the best way to get maximum turnout is not pessimism but cautious and determined optimism. People like to rally behind someone they think can win, and jump on the bandwagon.

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**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2020, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-will-finish-trumps-presidency/849597/339 "2020-04-23T21:55:13Z")

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> [@SlackerInc](#):
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> I admit I don’t have a cite for this, but I have a strong hunch that the best way to get maximum turnout is not pessimism but cautious and determined optimism. People like to rally behind someone they think can win, and jump on the bandwagon.

The best way to get good turnout is to be a good candidate.

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**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\
**Post date:** [April 24, 2020, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-will-finish-trumps-presidency/849597/340 "2020-04-24T14:17:14Z")

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Since the “Trump will get reelected” thread is closed, I’ll put this here.

[ **Trump’s Plan to Save His Presidency**  
 _As he navigates the political fallout of the coronavirus pandemic, he’s leaning into a strategy that worked for him four years ago._](https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/04/how-trump-leaning-his-2016-playbook-covid-19/610462/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%253A+TheAtlantic+%2528The+Atlantic+-+Master+Feed%2529)

> [@](#):
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> Two key forces that drove Donald Trump’s election victory in 2016 were the cult of personality he attracted and a hard-edged nationalist message. There is no sign that his core followers will ever abandon him. But the Ever Trumpers won’t be enough to win him reelection amid a historic crisis that a majority of the country feels he’s bungled. Trump needs to reach some band of the electorate still amenable to voting for him, with some argument these voters might find persuasive. Telling the world he’s blameless night after night doesn’t seem to be working.
> 
> As his approval ratings drop, Trump has been leaning into the blunt economic-nationalist argument that helped get him to the White House, betting that it’s compelling enough to keep him there. He now says he would consider punitive action against China, where the virus originated, after spending much of January and February showering praise on Chinese President Xi Jinping. …
> 
> When it comes to the president, most people are dug in. They want him gone, or they admire him more than Abraham Lincoln. Tucked into the divide, though, \*\*is some small group still open to hearing what he has to say. Republican pollsters say they’ve spotted these voters in their research. \*\*Neil Newhouse, who has polled for four different Republican presidential campaigns, told me about a survey his firm conducted last year showing that, of the voters who disapproved of Trump’s job performance, **36 percent said they liked some of his policies and some actions that he took. That’s the prize.** They’re the voters Trump can target with an economic-nationalist position that may seem more relevant in the time of COVID-19, Newhouse and other Trump allies told me.
> 
> “An issue like this—nationalism—could come into play. They may not like everything he’s doing, but they like the way he’s standing up to China,” Newhouse said. John McLaughlin, a Trump pollster who has also worked for dozens of Republican congressional and presidential candidates over the years, echoed that notion. “There are some that may not like his style, but support his policies, and in particular, his economic-nationalist argument,” he told me. **“That’s the persuadable middle. That’s where the votes are.”**  
> …

My bold.

These are the people who find him personally repugnant, but they will hold their noses and vote for him because he hates the people they hate.

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**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\
**Post date:** [April 24, 2020, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-will-finish-trumps-presidency/849597/341 "2020-04-24T23:48:07Z")

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Good Frank Bruni column today in the NYT:

> **[Opinion | Injections of Bleach? Beams of Light? Trump Is Self-Destructing...](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/24/opinion/sunday/bleach-sunlight-coronavirus-trump.html)**
>
> The notion that he is bound for four more years is pure superstition.

> [@](#):
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> “And he’s going to get re-elected.”  
> Not a day goes by without several friends — Republicans as well as Democrats — saying that to me. It’s the blunt coda to a bloated recitation of Donald Trump’s failures during this pandemic. It’s a whimper of surrender following a scream of disbelief.[…]
> 
> With that refrain we perform a spiritual prophylaxis. We prepare for despair.  
> But somewhere along the way, we started to confuse a coping mechanism with reasoned analysis. We began to treat a verbal tic as inevitable truth.[…]
> 
> Maybe a toasty beam of sunlight is all that we need to wipe out the coronavirus? What if we just injected disinfectant into our veins? He floated both of those fantasies on Thursday, when he might as well have stepped up to the lectern in a tin foil hat. They’re the ramblings of a dejected, disoriented and increasingly desperate man.[…]
> 
> He can read the polls as well as the rest of us can, and they show that while he stands there nightly in the White House briefing room and blows kisses at himself, Americans aren’t blowing kisses back.[…]
> 
> He’s Houdini, he’s Scheherazade, he’s all the escape artists of history and fiction rolled into one and swirled with golden-orange topping. He’s lucky beyond all imagining. But here’s the thing about luck: It runs out.

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**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2020, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-will-finish-trumps-presidency/849597/342 "2020-04-25T00:32:56Z")

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> [@SlackerInc](#):
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> Good Frank Bruni column today in the NYT:  
> [https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/24/opinion/bleach-sunlight-coronavirus-trump.html?referringSource=articleShare](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/24/opinion/bleach-sunlight-coronavirus-trump.html?referringSource=articleShare)

It’s a great opinion piece. He mentions the work of two of his colleagues about the GOP plan to try to portray Biden as China’s stooge—a plan that took a hit today with the news that Trump is in hock in a major way to the Chinese state bank\*.

But the bit that stood out to me–though Bruni moved away from it quickly into a list of Trump’s current weaknesses–was this:

> [@](#):
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> “And he’s going to get re-elected.”  
> Not a day goes by without several friends — Republicans as well as Democrats — saying that to me. It’s the blunt coda to a bloated recitation of Donald Trump’s failures during this pandemic. It’s a whimper of surrender following a scream of disbelief.[…]
> 
> With that refrain we perform a spiritual prophylaxis. We prepare for despair.

This urge to prepare for disappointment is a tremendous temptation. We don’t want to be seen as being foolishly, naively optimistic–so we over-correct into cynicism. And as Bruni says, we want to fend off the wrenching pain of the potential event of Trump remaining in the White House for months or years to come. “We prepare for despair.”

He’s right, I think. And we need to try to stop doing this. We _don’t_ need to consider an endless Trumpian future to be inevitable.

\*[Trump attack on Biden highlights president's own past dealings with China | US news | The Guardian](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/apr/24/donald-trump-bank-of-china-debt-report)

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> [@ThelmaLou](#):
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> Since the “Trump will get reelected” thread is closed, I’ll put this here.
> 
> [ **Trump’s Plan to Save His Presidency**
> 
> _As he navigates the political fallout of the coronavirus pandemic, he’s leaning into a strategy that worked for him four years ago._]([How Trump Is Leaning on His 2016 Playbook With COVID-19 - The Atlantic](https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/04/how-trump-leaning-his-2016-playbook-covid-19/610462/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%253A+TheAtlantic+%2528The+Atlantic+-+Master+Feed%2529))My bold.
> 
> These are the people who find him personally repugnant, but they will hold their noses and vote for him because he hates the people they hate.

Of course. I think this has been evident all along.

But Trump’s campaigners know that margin could be surpassed by a strong Democratic turnout, so they are going to take advantage of his incumbency to do every thing they can to distort the election, probably doing something that is illegal. It won’t be exposed until after he’s back in office so no one will do anything about it.

It’s a pattern now.

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**Post date:** [April 25, 2020, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-will-finish-trumps-presidency/849597/344 "2020-04-25T17:45:39Z")

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Are the Secret Service presidential protection detail vetted to screen out any with COVID-infected family? Such may be unreliable protectors. If Sis or Dad injected bleach because POTUS said to, the guard may feel disaffected. Can’t have disaffected guards around, can we?

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**Post date:** [April 29, 2020, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-will-finish-trumps-presidency/849597/345 "2020-04-29T16:49:58Z")

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[ **Why Trump Was Deaf to All the Warnings He Received**  
 _The president’s incuriosity and paranoia hobbled his response._](https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/04/how-many-warnings-did-trump-ignore/610846/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%253A+TheAtlantic+%2528The+Atlantic+-+Master+Feed%2529)

> [@](#):
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> …  
> “There has been so much unnecessary death in this country,” President Donald Trump said Monday at his daily coronavirus briefing. “It could have been stopped and it could have been stopped short, but somebody a long time ago, it seems, decided not to do it that way. And the whole world is suffering because of it.”
> 
> The remark is classic Trump—warning darkly but vaguely about unidentified enemies—but insofar as anyone made such a decision, **it was the president himself. The virus is not, of course, Trump’s fault, but the federal government’s handling of the outbreak is his responsibility.** And one of the more astonishing revelations of the past month has been not just that the president was warned, but that he was warned over and over again and still declined to act.
> 
> The Washington Post reports that the President’s Daily Brief, or PDB, an intelligence report on national-security threats, mentioned the coronavirus “more than a dozen” times in January and February, a period during which the Trump administration was doing little to prepare for a pandemic, and when the president himself was often downplaying the threat the virus posed to the United States. The oversight would come as a surprise if not for the long line of warnings that the president is known to have ignored.  
> …

My bold.

Isn’t the “President’s Daily Brief” that document that his staff had to keep dumbing down until it was just one page and even then he STILL couldn’t be bothered to read it?

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**Post date:** [April 29, 2020, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-will-finish-trumps-presidency/849597/346 "2020-04-29T21:28:56Z")

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> [@ThelmaLou](#):
>
> [ **Why Trump Was Deaf to All the Warnings He Received**
> 
> _The president’s incuriosity and paranoia hobbled his response._]([How Many Warnings Did Trump Ignore? - The Atlantic](https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/04/how-many-warnings-did-trump-ignore/610846/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%253A+TheAtlantic+%2528The+Atlantic+-+Master+Feed%2529))My bold.
> 
> Isn’t the “President’s Daily Brief” that document that his staff had to keep dumbing down until it was just one page and even then he STILL couldn’t be bothered to read it?

It’s pretty much axiomatic that whatever accusations Trump makes are precisely what he himself is doing or has done. It’s his first line of knee-jerk bullshit cover-up. He does it automatically–robotically and utterly transparently.

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**Post date:** [April 29, 2020, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-will-finish-trumps-presidency/849597/347 "2020-04-29T21:34:08Z")

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[Trump erupts at campaign manager as reelection stress overflows](https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/29/politics/donald-trump-brad-parscale-campaign-coronavirus/index.html)

> [@](#):
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> As he huddled with advisers on Friday evening, President Donald Trump was still fuming over his sliding poll numbers and the onslaught of criticism he was facing for suggesting a day earlier that ingesting disinfectant might prove effective against coronavirus.  
> Within moments, the President was shouting – not at the aides in the room, but into the phone – at his campaign manager Brad Parscale, three people familiar with the matter told CNN. Shifting the blame away from himself, Trump berated Parscale for a recent spate of damaging poll numbers, even at one point threatening to sue Parscale. It’s not clear how serious the President’s threat of a lawsuit was.  
> The White House did not immediately respond to a CNN request for comment and the Trump campaign declined to comment.

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**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\
**Post date:** [April 29, 2020, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-will-finish-trumps-presidency/849597/348 "2020-04-29T22:18:11Z")

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> [@running\_coach](#):
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> [Trump erupts at campaign manager as reelection stress overflows](https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/29/politics/donald-trump-brad-parscale-campaign-coronavirus/index.html)

The president sues his campaign manager… yeah, that’s totally sane. :dubious:

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