# Michael Keaton calls on Donald Trump to resign **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [August 20, 2020, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-keaton-calls-on-donald-trump-to-resign/918595 "2020-08-20T16:38:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2020, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-keaton-calls-on-donald-trump-to-resign/918595/1 "2020-08-20T16:38:50Z")
He says it would be “very patriotic.” > **[Michael Keaton asks Trump to resign: It 'would be very patriotic'](https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/michael-keaton-asks-trump-to-resign)** > > Michael Keaton is calling on President Trump to bid farewell to the White House before the 2020 election. And believe me, you don’t wanna cross Beetlejuice! ---
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2020, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-keaton-calls-on-donald-trump-to-resign/918595/2 "2020-08-20T19:10:47Z")
or Batman ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2020, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-keaton-calls-on-donald-trump-to-resign/918595/3 "2020-08-20T19:13:26Z")
Or Mr. Mom. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2020, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-keaton-calls-on-donald-trump-to-resign/918595/4 "2020-08-20T19:14:27Z")
Or Birdman. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2020, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-keaton-calls-on-donald-trump-to-resign/918595/5 "2020-08-20T19:16:39Z")
Or Jack Frost. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2020, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-keaton-calls-on-donald-trump-to-resign/918595/6 "2020-08-20T19:17:26Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > He says it would be “very patriotic.” And we all know how big of a [patriot Trump](https://www.google.com/search?source=univ&tbm=isch&q=image+trump+humping+flag&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjHg82Bv6rrAhULSzABHaMeDdoQ7Al6BAgIEBk&biw=1366&bih=625) is. ---
**Author:** ![FlikTheBlue](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fliktheblue/32/10972_2.png) [@FlikTheBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlikTheBlue)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2020, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-keaton-calls-on-donald-trump-to-resign/918595/7 "2020-08-20T19:29:53Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > And believe me, you don’t wanna cross Beetlejuice! In my book Trump already succeeded on this count. On election night 2016, around 830 PM CST, when things looked a lot closer than I was expecting, I decided some distraction from CNN was in order. I popped in my DVD of Beetlejuice thinking things would be close, but in Clinton’s favor, by the time the movie was over. Needless to say, it didn’t turn out that way. ETA. That day is seared in my memory. Other than my wedding day, it’s the only day in past memory I can describe in detail. I remember where I had dinner, what I ate, what I was doing that day, where I watched the election results, etc. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2020, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-keaton-calls-on-donald-trump-to-resign/918595/8 "2020-08-20T19:32:05Z")
If all it takes to get trump out of the Whitehouse is for Michael Keaton to ask, you have to wonder why Mr Keaton didn’t ask way sooner. ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2020, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-keaton-calls-on-donald-trump-to-resign/918595/9 "2020-08-20T19:36:44Z")
Or Johnny Dangerously. “My first ex-wife told called on me to resign once…ONCE.” ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2020, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-keaton-calls-on-donald-trump-to-resign/918595/10 "2020-08-20T19:39:41Z")
Joe Piscopo. ---
**Author:** ![Lamoral](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lamoral/32/16078_2.png) [@Lamoral](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamoral)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2020, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-keaton-calls-on-donald-trump-to-resign/918595/11 "2020-08-20T19:41:38Z")
One of the most ridiculous, and aggravating, side effects of the Trump presidency - a minor one, in the final analysis, but still aggravating - is the constant stream of people “calling for” [whoever] to resign. Do these people actually believe themselves? Has anyone, in history, ever resigned because someone “called for them” to resign? I see it over and over again on Facebook: people posting petitions, or statements from influential people, “calling for to resign.” being not only Trump himself but also innumerable figures within his administration. Does ANYONE _really_ believe that “calling for to resign” has any meaning whatsoever? ---
**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2020, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-keaton-calls-on-donald-trump-to-resign/918595/12 "2020-08-20T19:55:09Z")
Sominabatch! ---
**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:** [August 20, 2020, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-keaton-calls-on-donald-trump-to-resign/918595/13 "2020-08-20T20:14:35Z")
> [@Lamoral](#): > > Does ANYONE _really_ believe that “calling for to resign” has any meaning whatsoever? Hey, ya never know. It worked with Nixon. ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2020, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-keaton-calls-on-donald-trump-to-resign/918595/14 "2020-08-20T20:25:15Z")
Why just this week in Canada, the opposition Conservatives called on the Finance Minister to resign. And he did. (Of course they also called for the PrimeMinister to resign. However that did NOT happen!) ---
**Author:** ![TheCuse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thecuse/32/2854_2.png) [@TheCuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheCuse)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2020, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-keaton-calls-on-donald-trump-to-resign/918595/15 "2020-08-20T22:28:05Z")
> [@elbows](#): > > Why just this week in Canada, the opposition Conservatives called on the Finance Minister to resign. And he did. That’s different than being asked by a movie actor to resign. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2020, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-keaton-calls-on-donald-trump-to-resign/918595/16 "2020-08-20T22:43:49Z")
Lighten up, everybody. I posted this because I thought it was amusing that an actor who played both Beetlejuice and Batman was calling on Trump to resign. He’ll either hurt you or put a curse on you if you go against him. ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2020, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-keaton-calls-on-donald-trump-to-resign/918595/17 "2020-08-21T01:54:13Z")
Or swoop down and steal your stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2020, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-keaton-calls-on-donald-trump-to-resign/918595/18 "2020-08-21T11:02:17Z")
I hereby call on Donald Trump to resign. [waits for media to breathlessly report this] ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2020, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-keaton-calls-on-donald-trump-to-resign/918595/19 "2020-08-21T14:13:18Z")
Loathe him as I do, I actually wouldn’t want Trump to resign right now. President Pence would be a stronger candidate for the GOP in November than him. ---
**Author:** ![LegendsofClear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/77aa72/32.png) [@LegendsofClear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LegendsofClear)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2020, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-keaton-calls-on-donald-trump-to-resign/918595/20 "2020-08-21T15:47:17Z")
As Michael Keaton likes to say “Don’t go chasing waterfalls”. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-keaton-calls-on-donald-trump-to-resign/918595.md?page=2)