# Trump and US Capitol Riot **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [January 7, 2021, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-and-us-capitol-riot/929930 "2021-01-07T16:38:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 4
**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:** [January 10, 2021, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-and-us-capitol-riot/929930/61 "2021-01-10T22:43:52Z")
> [@Ann\_Hedonia](#): > > Hannity’s doing a piece called “Lies of the Left” on how the media mob is making a 99% peaceful protest look violent in order to persecute Trump. And also it was _completely_ unfair to make such a big deal over that little incident at the performance of _Our American Cousin_. The evening was 99% uneventful. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2021, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-and-us-capitol-riot/929930/62 "2021-01-10T22:52:11Z")
Stop calling it a riot! > ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2021, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-and-us-capitol-riot/929930/63 "2021-01-10T22:53:36Z")
Yes! Why aren’t we talking about all those days when Trump _didn’t_ try to violently overthrow the federal government? Lefties are just biased haters. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2021, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-and-us-capitol-riot/929930/64 "2021-01-11T00:22:00Z")
I didn’t start this thread but I did ask that the title be changed; this was no riot and I don’t like that the Dope isn’t using the proper nomenclature. It downplays and minimizes what happened. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2021, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-and-us-capitol-riot/929930/65 "2021-01-11T00:36:35Z")
I don’t know that it is. There are positive duties, and negative duties of the president. Nixon was good at the positive duties, but failed at a negative duty. Jimmy Carter failed on many of the positive duties, but was great at the negative duties-- albeit, he didn’t fail as badly at the positive duties as Nixon failed at the negative duties, which made him a better president than Nixon. But that’s the problem, isn’t it? It’s very hard to compare presidents whose strengths and weaknesses lay in different areas. It’s much easier to compare Nixon to a president like FDR, who excelled at the positive duties, and perhaps was not quite as good at the negative duties, but still could not be said to have failed at them. He did both better than Nixon. Trump has failed spectacularly at both. Up until the storming of the Capitol, he was failing more spectacularly at the positive duties, hands down, but now I think there is an argument that his greatest failure may be at the negative duties. ---
**Author:** ![Kimera757](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kimera757/32/3765_2.png) [@Kimera757](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimera757)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2021, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-and-us-capitol-riot/929930/66 "2021-01-11T00:42:56Z")
Could you specify these negative duties? Do you just mean “things you shouldn’t do”? ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2021, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-and-us-capitol-riot/929930/67 "2021-01-11T00:45:40Z")
Things you refrain from doing. Yes, that’s what “negative” means-- there’s nothing there. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-and-us-capitol-riot/929930.md?page=3)