# Coronavirus will finish Trump's presidency **URL:** \ **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")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2020, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-will-finish-trumps-presidency/849597/21 "2020-03-16T22:02:44Z")
MMMGA-Make March Madness Great Again. ---
**Author:** ![Nonsuch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nonsuch/32/2922_2.png) [@Nonsuch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nonsuch)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2020, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-will-finish-trumps-presidency/849597/22 "2020-03-16T22:20:19Z")
> [@drad\_dog](#): > > I would expect that covid cases will surge among his base. They have been more misinformed, had science denial pushed on them, and have a history of denial before that. And they are in a news bubble. That, and they’ll continue to pass it to one another at the massive rallies Trump has said he will continue to hold. ---
**Author:** ![Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de053/32.png) [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackknifed_Juggernaut)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2020, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-will-finish-trumps-presidency/849597/23 "2020-03-16T22:50:23Z")
I don’t think he would have won in any situation. He won by the most razor-thin of margins. His approval rating was about 46% at the time of election, and immediately dropped and was stuck in the 40-43% range (and that was before COVID-19). No president has ever been elected with a rating that low. ---
**Author:** ![drad\_dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@drad\_dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drad_dog)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2020, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-will-finish-trumps-presidency/849597/24 "2020-03-16T23:03:13Z")
> [@Nonsuch](#): > > That, and they’ll continue to pass it to one another at the massive rallies Trump has said he will continue to hold. God willing they will be the biggest crowds in campaign history ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2020, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-will-finish-trumps-presidency/849597/25 "2020-03-16T23:24:31Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > This is perfectly true. Trump’s base now has a go to excuse for a shitty economy- It wasn’t Trump’s fault. The economy is not an issue for his base. I guess the question is: How many of the people that voted for him are loyal members of his base? The state of the Dow Jones won’t be an issue with his base. That much of his base are going to be unemployed come November is going to be an issue with his base. It’s that simple. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2020, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-will-finish-trumps-presidency/849597/26 "2020-03-16T23:24:45Z")
> [@drad\_dog](#): > > God willing they will be the biggest crowds in campaign history Sam Harris recently said that this virus appears to have been custom designed to decimate the Trump Cult population. I thought that it was really short sighted of Harris, given that it’s a worldwide pandemic that will hurt populations that take no part in the Trump Cult. However, if what you say is true and Trump continues to hold large rallies, I will have to grant Harris his due. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2020, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-will-finish-trumps-presidency/849597/27 "2020-03-16T23:39:07Z")
> [@Voyager](#): > > The state of the Dow Jones won’t be an issue with his base. That much of his base are going to be unemployed come November is going to be an issue with his base. It’s that simple. I hear ya. But those who make up his base won’t blame him for their lack of employment. Those who voted for him for the fuck of it, or because they hate Hillary might do so. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2020, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-will-finish-trumps-presidency/849597/28 "2020-03-16T23:58:33Z")
Aw, c’mon. You know they’re going to blame Obama’s culling of the public health services in the US for \*45’s pathetic response. It’ll be Obama whom they’ll blame. Naver \*45. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2020, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-will-finish-trumps-presidency/849597/29 "2020-03-17T00:04:35Z")
Guys, even more than making the incorrect argument that all who voted Trump in 2016 somehow constitutes his base, can we stop publicly wishing death on large swaths of people? ---
**Author:** ![drad\_dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@drad\_dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drad_dog)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2020, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-will-finish-trumps-presidency/849597/30 "2020-03-17T00:17:22Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > Guys, even more than making the incorrect argument that all who voted Trump in 2016 somehow constitutes his base, can we stop publicly wishing death on large swaths of people? Did Darwin wish death on anyone? I think it’s too far for Sam Harris btw. He’s a professional. ---
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2020, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-will-finish-trumps-presidency/849597/31 "2020-03-17T00:33:03Z")
Trump will never be president. The Mueller Report will finish Trump’s presidency. The impeachment will finish Trump’s presidency. The Coronavirus will finish Trump’s presidency. You know what’s really going to finish Trump’s presidency? 2024. ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2020, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-will-finish-trumps-presidency/849597/32 "2020-03-17T00:57:12Z")
You can’t lie your way out of an economic collapse and daddy is long dead. Trump is toast. ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2020, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-will-finish-trumps-presidency/849597/33 "2020-03-17T01:07:31Z")
> [@Projammer](#): > > Trump will never be president. > > The Mueller Report will finish Trump’s presidency. > > The impeachment will finish Trump’s presidency. > > The Coronavirus will finish Trump’s presidency. > > You know what’s really going to finish Trump’s presidency? 2024. You hope. Why would his base give a shit about the Dow? They don’t own stock. I am afraid they will suffer unduly from Covid though. So will all red-staters since their governors are still in denial and anti-science. ---
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2020, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-will-finish-trumps-presidency/849597/34 "2020-03-17T01:31:28Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > I think “The economy was doing great until Corona virus, which nobody could have predicted or protected against,” is probably going to work pretty well. It’s a simple enough narrative, and basically true - this would have fucked up our economy under Hillary, too. This will be the narrative concerning the economy if there hasn’t been significant recovery by November. Your disagreement with what has happened with the CDC will just be background noise. And if the virus is still a thing come the election it will suppress all voter turnout equally. It’s not magically going to target Republican voters in a way that the Democrats with their morally superior woke immune systems will feel safe ignoring. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2020, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-will-finish-trumps-presidency/849597/35 "2020-03-17T01:33:50Z")
Did anyone else just hear a dry cough? ---
**Author:** ![drad\_dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@drad\_dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drad_dog)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2020, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-will-finish-trumps-presidency/849597/36 "2020-03-17T01:40:07Z")
We can certainly hope for a good case for all of the administration. They should survive and be chastened and wiser. ---
**Author:** ![joebuck20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2020, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-will-finish-trumps-presidency/849597/37 "2020-03-17T02:07:37Z")
If there’s one thing that’s going to hurt him with his base, it’s the appearance of weakness during a crisis. This Politico article touches on that: [https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/16/trump-maga-coronavirus-movement-130831](https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/16/trump-maga-coronavirus-movement-130831) > [@](#): > > Trump’s supporters elected him because they considered him a “wartime leader” who could fight against the swamp and the elites, so they expect the same against a truly invisible threat, said War Room host and former Breitbart editor Raheem Kassam. “If, for a second, people think that he doesn’t have that strength, or he doesn’t have that fortitude, then it will become a problem,” he said. Granted, at this point I think most of Trump’s followers are too cultish in their devotion to not follow him over the cliff. But this may well open a few people’s eyes to the fact that the guy was never anything more than bluster, and that he’s in way over his head. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2020, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-will-finish-trumps-presidency/849597/38 "2020-03-17T03:06:22Z")
His approval on fivethirtyeight is holding steady at 42.5%, there is nothing that will convince his base that he’s incompetent. ---
**Author:** ![Lance\_Turbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lance_turbo/32/6156_2.png) [@Lance\_Turbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lance_Turbo)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2020, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-will-finish-trumps-presidency/849597/39 "2020-03-17T03:18:50Z")
[Video emerges showing Trump talking about cutting pandemic team in 2018, despite saying last week ‘I didn’t know about it’](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/coronavirus-video-trump-pandemic-team-cut-2018-a9405191.html) > [@](#): > > Mr Trump said of the pandemic team that “some of the people we’ve cut they haven’t been used for many, many years and if we ever need them we can get them very quickly and rather then spending the money”. > > “I’m a business person, I don’t like having thousands of people around when you don’t need them,” he added. Damn. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2020, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-will-finish-trumps-presidency/849597/40 "2020-03-17T04:11:55Z")
> [@Lance\_Turbo](#): > > [Video emerges showing Trump talking about cutting pandemic team in 2018, despite saying last week ‘I didn’t know about it’](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/coronavirus-video-trump-pandemic-team-cut-2018-a9405191.html) > > Damn. I’m sure he doesn’t believe in fire extinguishers either. COVID will not take Trump down. His supporters voted for him in the first place. Decent people that go to the polls to vote will. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-will-finish-trumps-presidency/849597.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-will-finish-trumps-presidency/849597.md?page=3)