# Trump has COVID! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 2, 2020, 10:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022 "2020-10-02T10:56:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 17
**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:** [October 3, 2020, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/322 "2020-10-03T23:53:31Z")
> [@MrMrmrmr](#): > > About half, which is enough to know he is not broke. The asset half or the debt half? ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2020, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/323 "2020-10-03T23:53:32Z")
> [@MrMrmrmr](#): > > wildly successful in business AKA “selling shitty financial products to widows and orphans” ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2020, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/324 "2020-10-03T23:55:27Z")
Every once in a while these weirdo losers pop up and you ask yourself, have I seen posts from this guy before? What’s his fucking deal? ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2020, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/325 "2020-10-03T23:56:08Z")
If you hadn’t noticed, this is a thread about Trump having Covid, not about his wealth or otherwise. Take the fucking hijack to any one of a bazillion other threads. And yeah, also wishing Trump a very long and very painful recovery. ---
**Author:** ![MrMrmrmr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrmrmrmr/32/5828_2.png) [@MrMrmrmr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrMrmrmr)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2020, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/326 "2020-10-03T23:56:30Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > AKA “selling shitty financial products to widows and orphans” [/quote] More like being a highly skilled tool and diemaker who understands money. If you can program and run a CNC mill and work to .001” tolerances you can make 35$ an hour too. ---
**Author:** ![MrMrmrmr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrmrmrmr/32/5828_2.png) [@MrMrmrmr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrMrmrmr)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2020, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/327 "2020-10-04T00:06:06Z")
> [@madmonk28](#): > > Every once in a while these weirdo losers pop up and you ask yourself, have I seen posts from this guy before? What’s his fucking deal? I am a weirdo loser? Why would you say that? Weird, ok , I can cop to that, but loser? My deal is that I saw someone with an ignorant idea about rich people and insurance so I tried to inform them about how the world actually works. ---
**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:** [October 4, 2020, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/328 "2020-10-04T00:11:33Z")
> [@MrMrmrmr](#): > > My deal is that I saw someone with an ignorant idea about rich people and insurance so I tried to inform them about how the world actually works. You think that $35/hr makes you wildly successful at business. What you don’t know about rich people is a lot. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2020, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/329 "2020-10-04T00:14:56Z")
> [@MrMrmrmr](#): > > there is nothing notable about me. You’ve notably got your tongue up Trump’s charade. ---
**Author:** ![MrMrmrmr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrmrmrmr/32/5828_2.png) [@MrMrmrmr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrMrmrmr)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2020, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/330 "2020-10-04T00:15:50Z")
My family owned a business where I did tool and die work. We sold the company for an eight figure price, that was split between seven people. Sounds good but we also had over ten million in debt. I did Ok. ---
**Author:** ![MrMrmrmr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrmrmrmr/32/5828_2.png) [@MrMrmrmr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrMrmrmr)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2020, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/331 "2020-10-04T00:18:38Z")
> [@kambuckta](#): > > If you hadn’t noticed, this is a thread about Trump having Covid, not about his wealth or otherwise. Take the fucking hijack to any one of a bazillion other threads. > > And yeah, also wishing Trump a very long and very painful recovery. Sorry,I didn’t know I was talking to the person who runs the pit. I will try to do better next time. And the street lights came on so I have to stop playing, see you tomorrow. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2020, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/332 "2020-10-04T00:21:21Z")
> [@MrMrmrmr](#): > > And the street lights came on so I have to stop playing, see you tomorrow. - Are you under someone’s window, stealing their WiFi? ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2020, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/333 "2020-10-04T00:21:24Z")
I read somewhere that his Secret Service detail is pissed, because he knowingly exposed all of them. Didn’t bother to tell them he was positive until a day later. ---
**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:** [October 4, 2020, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/334 "2020-10-04T00:26:05Z")
> [@MrMrmrmr](#): > > My family owned a business where I did tool and die work. We sold the company for an eight figure price, that was split between seven people. Sounds good but we also had over ten million in debt. I did Ok. I’m glad things worked out for you but this is not a scenario in which you were “wildly successful in business”. I’m sure you are a skilled machinist and I admire people who are good with their hands. But with respect to whatever financial success you may have achieved, much like Trump, you were simply born lucky. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2020, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/335 "2020-10-04T00:27:31Z")
It’s kind of a trend among the rich. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2020, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/336 "2020-10-04T00:30:55Z")
Yep. “My family had a business, and I worked in it making more than minimum wage, so therefore I am a business tycoon.” ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2020, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/337 "2020-10-04T00:31:24Z")
> [@MrMrmrmr](#): > > My family owned a business where I did tool and die work. We sold the company for an eight figure price, that was split between seven people. Sounds good but we also had over ten million in debt. I did Ok. So, you are a highly successful businessman because you worked for your family’s deeply indebted company for $35 an hour at the time they sold it? ---
**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:** [October 4, 2020, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/338 "2020-10-04T00:33:40Z")
It does explain the kinship he feels with Trump. ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2020, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/339 "2020-10-04T00:45:04Z")
I wish him a full recovery, just not a speedy one. ---
**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2020, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/340 "2020-10-04T02:17:10Z")
“Tool and die work”. Was this a hit man business? 😁 ---
**Author:** ![aurora\_maire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aurora_maire/32/328_2.png) [@aurora\_maire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aurora_maire)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2020, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/341 "2020-10-04T02:19:17Z")
I imagine Trump is not really happy about being in the hospital with tests and IVs and machines. But I’m sure he loves getting to watch cable news constantly because they are all talking about him nonstop. Still, it must be somewhat uncomfortable because they are talking about whether he is going to die and what happens if he does. Hate it for him. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022.md?page=16) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022.md?page=18)