# Is Trump the cause, or the effect ?

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**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [May 30, 2020, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-the-cause-or-the-effect/854749 "2020-05-30T18:59:49Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 2, 2020, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-the-cause-or-the-effect/854749/41 "2020-06-02T02:32:51Z")

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> [@Linty\_Fresh](#):
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> This is quite simply incorrect, at least at the presidential level. Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Ronald Reagan, Richard Nixon, and LBJ did _not_ come from money. Neither Jimmy Carter nor Gerald Ford were exactly starving, but they were hell and gone from what we would consider rich. With the exception of Reagan, thanks to his acting career, none of these presidents were rich when they went into politics.
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> The Kennedys, Bushes, and Trumps are the exception, not the rule.

I said nothing about presidents, fella. :dubious:

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