# 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:** 6
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2020, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-will-finish-trumps-presidency/849597/103 "2020-03-19T12:49:25Z")
> [@Projammer](#): > > And if the virus is still a thing come the election it will suppress all voter turnout equally. Nonsense. The elderly are 1)more susceptible and 2)more Republican than the general population. ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2020, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-will-finish-trumps-presidency/849597/104 "2020-03-19T12:51:00Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > Obama’s speech is fairly formal and I think he’d call GM “General Motors”. Certainly the words “British Petroleum” were not meant to gin up xenophobia the way that “Chinese virus” were. Indeed so, and hopefully it was clear that was not the point I was trying to make. There’s a difference between a xenophobic attack and using the formal or once-upon-a-time formal name for a company. Referring to BP as “British Petroleum”, which many people still do, is very different, as the company referred to itself that way until quite recently. Using ‘novel coronavirus’ or ‘COVID-19’ or ‘SARS-CoV2’ is preferred in part because health officials realize there can be and have been unfortunate consequences to attaching xenophobic labels to health scares. The ‘Spanish’ Flu came from Kansas, after all, but I don’t see people blaming Kansans for the mutations it has spawned over the years. This usage spawns alienation and xenophobia when people instead need to work together. If people have learned anything from this (which appears doubtful in many cases), it’s that there’s not “American” health or “Chinese” health or whatever. Health in 2020 is truly global and stoking antiquated xenophobic fears is fundamentally counterproductive. ---
**Author:** ![BeepKillBeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9e8a1a/32.png) [@BeepKillBeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeepKillBeep)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2020, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-will-finish-trumps-presidency/849597/105 "2020-03-19T12:52:16Z")
> [@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. This is the most part that reveals the most about your inner thoughts. It is the sort of thing white nationalists say to try to appear as not being white nationalists. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2020, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-will-finish-trumps-presidency/849597/106 "2020-03-19T12:52:53Z")
> [@VOW](#): > > Let them gather! Just make sure you have some coughing, sneezing, feverish folk planted amongst the masses. If it were still possible to get face masks in large quantities without seriously compromising their availability to people who actually need them, I’d be trying to get the ball rolling on passing out some [custom-printed ones](https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/2/24/1637324/-Brilliant-troll-hands-out-tiny-Trump-Russian-flags-right-before-Trump-s-CPAC-speech) to pass out to his cultists. ---
**Author:** ![BeepKillBeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9e8a1a/32.png) [@BeepKillBeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeepKillBeep)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2020, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-will-finish-trumps-presidency/849597/107 "2020-03-19T12:53:25Z")
Nevermind. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2020, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-will-finish-trumps-presidency/849597/108 "2020-03-19T13:22:18Z")
> [@Pardel-Lux](#): > > “meet markets” Where Napoleon Boneyspurs waged his personal Vietnam. ---
**Author:** ![divemaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/divemaster/32/78_2.png) [@divemaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/divemaster)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2020, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-will-finish-trumps-presidency/849597/109 "2020-03-19T13:38:36Z")
> [@HengsenKerpangsen](#): > > The irrational Trump-bashing is not funny anymore. Let it go for the sake of your own mental health. Boy did you join the wrong message board! I don’t support Trump at all, but most folks around here are like a dog with a sock. They ain’t gonna “let it go.” ---
**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 19, 2020, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-will-finish-trumps-presidency/849597/110 "2020-03-19T13:48:35Z")
> [@HengsenKerpangsen](#): > > The irrational Trump-bashing is not funny anymore. Let it go for the sake of your own mental health. When evil is on the ropes, kick it in the nut. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2020, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-will-finish-trumps-presidency/849597/111 "2020-03-19T13:59:51Z")
Fascists and authoritarians have always found a way to exploit crisis. Something along the lines of “Democratic niceties are well and good in normal times, but we need strong and decisive action now, and only I can provide that.” To which tens of millions of people will go “He’s right! Praise the leader!” That said, Trump seems kind of indifferent to the whole thing. I’m not sure if he’ll go there. But if he does, he’ll get a lot of support. ---
**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 19, 2020, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-will-finish-trumps-presidency/849597/115 "2020-03-19T14:14:53Z")
[Joe Scarborough has an interesting take on the term “Chinese virus”.](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/joe-scarborough-donald-trump-coronavirus-racism_n_5e735ad5c5b6f5b7c53eed56) > [@](#): > > “He wants you to become outraged so you will talk about that instead of talking about tests, so you’ll talk about that instead of talking about ventilators,” Scarborough continued. I think his point is valid. The Con Man threw up a smokescreen so that we’re talking about racism and not the pandemic. Moreover, he’s counting on his base to be going “'Merica! Fuck yeah!” instead of watching their 401ks crash. ---
**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 19, 2020, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-will-finish-trumps-presidency/849597/116 "2020-03-19T14:40:50Z")
> [@Sportegan](#): > > Democrats took coronavirus as their primary weapon against the US president. And they believe that Trump was trapped. Now it remains only to wait until there are not 125 patients, but not less than several thousand, after which the administration will have to go to extreme measures. And it doesn’t matter whether they will be used or not. If the US authorities begin to act on the model of the Chinese and introduce quarantine, this will seriously affect the country’s economy. And Trump is accused of dictatorship. It is reported by Rambler. > [https://sportegan.com/](https://sportegan.com/) Possible violation on me for modifying a quoted post\*, but WTF is this shit? Why are you purposefully hiding links to your own website in your posts? Reported. \*I removed the color tag which made the link invisible. If you mouse-hover under the last line, you will see the cursor change where there is “no” wording. ---
**Author:** ![Akaj](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/akaj/32/145_2.png) [@Akaj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Akaj)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2020, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-will-finish-trumps-presidency/849597/117 "2020-03-19T14:54:23Z")
Do Not Feed The Trolls. ---
**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 19, 2020, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-will-finish-trumps-presidency/849597/118 "2020-03-19T15:12:42Z")
> **[Hengsen Kerpangsen](https://www.quora.com/profile/Hengsen-Kerpangsen/questions)** > > Asked 30 questions. Wrote 2 answers. cool cool cool ---
**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 19, 2020, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-will-finish-trumps-presidency/849597/119 "2020-03-19T16:06:05Z")
> [@Unreconstructed\_Man](#): > > It’s something all Presidents do. I remember when, during that massive BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico a few years back, President Obama made a point of always referring to BP as “British Petroleum”. He knew the company was largely (maybe even wholly) American owned by that point, but he kept calling it “British Petroleum” regardless. It’s just a standard political deflection manoeuvre. I can’t blame Trump for doing it, too. Especially since the disease _did_ originate in China. well, the \*\*B \*\*in **BP** stands for _British_, whereas the **C** in \*\*COVID \*\*does not stand for _China_. Got that? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Akaj](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/akaj/32/145_2.png) [@Akaj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Akaj)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2020, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-will-finish-trumps-presidency/849597/120 "2020-03-19T16:23:29Z")
> [@Lance\_Turbo](#): > > [https://www.quora.com/profile/Hengsen-Kerpangsen/questions](https://www.quora.com/profile/Hengsen-Kerpangsen/questions) > > cool cool cool You should have provided some sort of warning before posting that link. Now I feel like I need a shower. Our latest troll is a Hitler Youth. ---
**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:** [March 19, 2020, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-will-finish-trumps-presidency/849597/121 "2020-03-19T16:36:31Z")
I’m watching the occupant of the Oval Office give his daily [DEL]smoke-blowing-up-my-ass[/DEL] press briefing this morning. I can’t stand to hear his voice, so I always watch it with the sound muted. It’s amusing to gauge how bad he’s doing by watching the stock market ticker in the lower right hand corner of the tee vee screen sink to new lows as he blathers away. He gets so annoyed when the press calls him on his BS! Beyond unfit. ---
**Author:** ![Ale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Ale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ale)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2020, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-will-finish-trumps-presidency/849597/122 "2020-03-19T17:49:56Z")
> [@Unreconstructed\_Man](#): > > It’s something all Presidents do. I remember when, during that massive BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico a few years back, President Obama made a point of always referring to BP as “British Petroleum”. He knew the company was largely (maybe even wholly) American owned by that point, but he kept calling it “British Petroleum” regardless. It’s just a standard political deflection manoeuvre. I can’t blame Trump for doing it, too. Especially since the disease _did_ originate in China. In this case, specifically, it was done to counteract[conspiracy theories being peddled by the Chinese government claiming that the Covid19 virus originated in the USA and was introduced to china by the US military.](https://edition.cnn.com/2020/03/13/asia/china-coronavirus-us-lijian-zhao-intl-hnk/index.html) ---
**Author:** ![Akaj](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/akaj/32/145_2.png) [@Akaj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Akaj)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2020, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-will-finish-trumps-presidency/849597/123 "2020-03-19T18:14:06Z")
> [@Ale](#): > > In this case, specifically, it was done to counteract[conspiracy theories being peddled by the Chinese government claiming that the Covid19 virus originated in the USA and was introduced to china by the US military.](https://edition.cnn.com/2020/03/13/asia/china-coronavirus-us-lijian-zhao-intl-hnk/index.html) Right, because millions of Americans were starting to believe that. (I mean, we’re gullible, but we’re not that gullible.) ---
**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, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-will-finish-trumps-presidency/849597/124 "2020-03-19T18:39:31Z")
> [@madmonk28](#): > > When evil is on the ropes, kick it in the **nut**. I see what you did there. ---
**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 19, 2020, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-will-finish-trumps-presidency/849597/125 "2020-03-19T18:41:38Z")
> [@John\_DiFool](#): > > I see what you did there. I wish it was on purpose. His approval has been creeping up, it’s at 43%. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-will-finish-trumps-presidency/849597.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-will-finish-trumps-presidency/849597.md?page=7)