# Does Trump want a race war? If so, why? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [June 1, 2020, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-trump-want-a-race-war-if-so-why/854876 "2020-06-01T21:09:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 43
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2020, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-trump-want-a-race-war-if-so-why/854876/43 "2020-06-03T23:09:55Z")
> [@asahi](#): > > Trump wants to survive - it’s that simple. > > If he loses the election, he risks losing everything. He wants to survive somehow, some way. He has no idea how to get there, but he’s going to pull out all the stops to make sure he does. That only makes sense if you feel that Trump’s actions are helping him stay in office. And I think they’re pretty obviously having the opposite effect. The Covid19 crisis could have been a golden opportunity for Trump if he had half a brain. It was a major international crisis and all he really needed to do was sit back, do what the experts told him to do, and then stand in front of a camera and present himself as a leader who was rising above politics. He would have been like Bush or Giuliani after 9/11. People would have forgiven him for all of the screw-ups earlier in his term as long as he looked competent during the crisis. People want to trust their leader in a crisis and believe he knows what he’s doing. All Trump needed to do was meet them halfway and say the right things. Trump could have had 75% approval ratings and he’d be coasting towards his second term now. Instead Trump seemed to intentionally take the worst possible approach to the medical crisis. And then, when a few of his supporters tried to suggest that maybe he shouldn’t be held responsible for a virus, he decided to promote a race war. This isn’t the way a man who’s trying to survive acts. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-trump-want-a-race-war-if-so-why/854876)._