# How high would Watergate rank if it were a Trump scandal?

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**Created:** [November 17, 2025, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-high-would-watergate-rank-if-it-were-a-trump-scandal/1024930 "2025-11-17T19:36:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mk\_VII](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Mk\_VII](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mk_VII)\
**Post date:** [December 27, 2025, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-high-would-watergate-rank-if-it-were-a-trump-scandal/1024930/21 "2025-12-27T10:58:48Z")

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Who would you rather have as president, Trump or Trickey Dickey Nixon?

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**Author:** ![echoreply](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/echoreply/32/3641_2.png) [@echoreply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/echoreply)\
**Post date:** [December 27, 2025, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-high-would-watergate-rank-if-it-were-a-trump-scandal/1024930/22 "2025-12-27T19:09:31Z")

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> [@Mk\_VII](#):
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> Who would you rather have as president, Trump or Trickey Dickey Nixon

I think if Nixon could have gotten away with even half of the stuff Trump is getting away with, we’d have gone down a very different path 50 years ago. If I bring back Nixon as president, do I also get the congress and supreme court that checked his power? Or do I get a Nixon that can repeal civil rights with an executive order, bomb anyone he feels like, while he enriches himself and his friends with no repercussions? Because I don’t want that.

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