# 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:** 4
**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 18, 2020, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-will-finish-trumps-presidency/849597/61 "2020-03-18T15:03:16Z")
It’s all according to the prophecy. ---
**Author:** ![MulderMuffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldermuffin/32/2862_2.png) [@MulderMuffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MulderMuffin)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2020, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-will-finish-trumps-presidency/849597/62 "2020-03-18T15:31:57Z")
Don’t worry, the Donald has this covered. All he has to do is re-write history to remind everyone how awesome and unprecedented he is! Tweet 7:46am March 18,2020 > [@](#): > > I always treated the Chinese Virus very seriously, and have done a very good job from the beginning, including my very early decision to close the “borders” from China - against the wishes of almost all. Many lives were saved. The Fake News new narrative is disgraceful & false! See! He’s done a good job from the beginning! He said so! Ignore the video clips and his former tweets, and any other evidence that says otherwise. It’s fake! All fake! ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2020, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-will-finish-trumps-presidency/849597/63 "2020-03-18T16:26:40Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > It’s all according to the prophecy. I’m not saying Trump is the Antichrist, but… [He’s the Antichrist.](https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/mobile/000/005/848/Aliens.jpg)😛 ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2020, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-will-finish-trumps-presidency/849597/64 "2020-03-18T16:30:42Z")
Racist piece of shit uses the term “Chinese virus”. Oh yes, he always took it seriously. Only his mouth-breathing cult buys that one. ---
**Author:** ![naita](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naita/32/5862_2.png) [@naita](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/naita)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2020, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-will-finish-trumps-presidency/849597/65 "2020-03-18T16:37:33Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > Racist piece of shit uses the term “Chinese virus”. Oh yes, he always took it seriously. Only his mouth-breathing cult buys that one. And the Twitter braintrust is now busy replying “That is Chinese propaganda” to any tweet saying that “Calling it the Chinese virus is racist”. ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2020, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-will-finish-trumps-presidency/849597/66 "2020-03-18T19:33:54Z")
> [@Red\_Wiggler](#): > > [Damn good argument.](https://www.theonion.com/this-war-will-destabilize-the-entire-mideast-region-and-1819594296) [No it isn’t.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpAvcGcEc0k) ---
**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 18, 2020, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-will-finish-trumps-presidency/849597/67 "2020-03-18T19:39:58Z")
If the short-fingered vulgarian catches it and survives, Science will have learned that massive doses of Adderall are the key to the cure. Either that or a diet including fourteen Big Macs daily. Still not sure why Democratic leadership is not hanging this whole thing around his fat neck by labeling it the TrumpVirus. ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2020, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-will-finish-trumps-presidency/849597/68 "2020-03-18T19:41:29Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > It’s all according to the prophecy. [Yes it is!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqaQ_Bhgmrc) ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2020, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-will-finish-trumps-presidency/849597/69 "2020-03-18T19:45:40Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > […] > Still not sure why Democratic leadership is not hanging this whole thing around his fat neck by labeling it the TrumpVirus. Just what I [meant to say](https://schumanchu.eu/html/l/l_00080curcumavirus.html). Every time someone calls it the “chinese virus” I will say “the Trump Virus!”. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2020, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-will-finish-trumps-presidency/849597/70 "2020-03-18T21:41:04Z")
People who support Trump continue to support him regardless of what the facts say. They view him as showing “leadership”. They view this virus as something caused by the Chinese. A lot of it is going to depend on where we are in November. If the virus is largely passed us and the economy has bounced back to normal (which it could, it’s not like any major structural damage happened to it), people have short memories. ---
**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 18, 2020, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-will-finish-trumps-presidency/849597/73 "2020-03-18T22:22:36Z")
> [@HengsenKerpangsen](#): > > Oh, and as for Trump… We will vote for him because things seem to be going well in this country. An interesting perspective on our current situation. Just out of curiosity, are you comfortable with the fact that the Trump administration cut the departments and resources set up to fight a pandemic infection, and that he initially bragged about this before attempting to lie his way out of it when our response to the outbreak was exposed as hopelessly inadequate? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2020, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-will-finish-trumps-presidency/849597/74 "2020-03-18T22:43:17Z")
> [@Nonsuch](#): > > An interesting perspective on our current situation. Just out of curiosity, are you comfortable with the fact that the Trump administration cut the departments and resources set up to fight a pandemic infection, and that he initially bragged about this before attempting to lie his way out of it when our response to the outbreak was exposed as hopelessly inadequate? Trump supporters believe every lie **The Messiah** utters – even the lies that contradict other lies. In addition to his mishandling of the current situation, the economy that he took so much credit for is crashing, and all of the gains made since his inauguration have been wiped out. Trump’s failed economy _might_ be enough to turn a few of his supporters against him. ---
**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:** [March 18, 2020, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-will-finish-trumps-presidency/849597/75 "2020-03-18T22:46:36Z")
> [@HengsenKerpangsen](#): > > …Oh, and as for Trump… We will vote for him because things seem to be going well in this country. I hope you are not one of those silly people who think Trump voters have no education, no professional careers or no successful businesses. People like you do give extra motivation to vote for him though. Neurotic, self-loathing white leftists have made a fool of themselves now that reality does not reflect the hyperbolic hysterics that followed the 2016 election and all the talks of nazis and fascism and genocide. Anti-white racism and the usurpation of white creations is the only kind of racism that seems to be getting out of hand in the USA. > [@HengsenKerpangsen](#): > > The irrational Trump-bashing is not funny anymore. Let it go for the sake of your own mental health. What ho! A new entity ariseth to replace the departed ones… ---
**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 18, 2020, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-will-finish-trumps-presidency/849597/76 "2020-03-18T23:46:52Z")
> [@HengsenKerpangsen](#): > > The irrational Trump-bashing is not funny anymore. Let it go for the sake of your own mental health. OK man. But the rational trump bashing is just getting started. C’mon in! ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2020, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-will-finish-trumps-presidency/849597/77 "2020-03-18T23:51:48Z")
Did that chowderhead really say “People are dying who have never died before”? ---
**Author:** ![orcenio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/orcenio/32/1036_2.png) [@orcenio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/orcenio)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2020, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-will-finish-trumps-presidency/849597/78 "2020-03-18T23:52:12Z")
> [@HengsenKerpangsen](#): > > I wonder, do you also have a problem with people calling the ‘Spanish Flu’ the ‘Spanish Flu’? :rolleyes: From the 1918 influenza pandemic [wikipedia article](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_flu) > [@](#): > > To maintain morale, wartime censors minimized early reports of illness and mortality in Germany, the United Kingdom, France, and the United States.[7] Papers were free to report the epidemic’s effects in neutral Spain (such as the grave illness of King Alfonso XIII).[8] These stories created a false impression of Spain as especially hard hit,[9] giving rise to the pandemic’s nickname, “Spanish flu”.[10] So it was called the Spanish flu due to heavy censoring of deaths and war time propaganda. Sounds about right that the Trumpists are dusting off this tradition. ---
**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:** [March 19, 2020, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-will-finish-trumps-presidency/849597/79 "2020-03-19T00:03:45Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > Did that chowderhead really say “People are dying who have never died before”? That chowderhead really did. Of course this is an unusual utterance by the chowderhead, as it is, technically, true\*. Doesn’t make a lick of sense, though, putting it back in line with his usual blortings. > [@orcenio](#): > > From the 1918 influenza pandemic [wikipedia article](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_flu) So it was called the Spanish flu due to heavy censoring of deaths and war time propaganda. Sounds about right that the Trumpists are dusting off this tradition. The 2009 Swine Flu began in the USA.\*\* So, being such a stickler for accuracy, no doubt the chowderhead will start calling it the American Flu. But the whole “Chinese flu” thing is intended to stop people from blaming Trump for his bungled response to the pandemic. Look, over there, Asian people to blame! Blame them! Don’t blame the guy who cut funding to the CDC and refused the offered WHO tests, and for weeks said the problem would go away all by itself when April arrived! Blame the Asians! Stop looking at Trump! \*With apologies to those who believe in reincarnation. \*\*[Trump’s H1N1 Swine Flu Pandemic Spin - FactCheck.org](https://www.factcheck.org/2020/03/trumps-h1n1-swine-flu-pandemic-spin/) ---
**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:** [March 19, 2020, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-will-finish-trumps-presidency/849597/80 "2020-03-19T00:26:01Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > Did that chowderhead really say “People are dying who have never died before”? I think that’s an allusion to a Star Trek episode. Saving a woman’s life led to Trump taking over the world, or something. ---
**Author:** ![Fiveyearlurker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@Fiveyearlurker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiveyearlurker)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2020, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-will-finish-trumps-presidency/849597/81 "2020-03-19T00:41:40Z")
The amazing thing is that if we had a Democrat in the oval office right now, the bills breezing through the Senate would be lucky to get one vote from Republicans. Much like the debt ceiling, they would be more than willing to hold the country hostage. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2020, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-will-finish-trumps-presidency/849597/82 "2020-03-19T00:44:26Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > Did that chowderhead really say “People are dying who have never died before”? According to [Snopes](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-quote-never-died-before/), he did not. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-will-finish-trumps-presidency/849597.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-will-finish-trumps-presidency/849597.md?page=5)