# Trump is dying **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [August 27, 2025, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520 "2025-08-27T07:09:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 125
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2026, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/2482 "2026-04-28T00:52:45Z")
The club tournament wins are highly suspect, I agree. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2026, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/2483 "2026-04-28T00:58:40Z")
Calls to mind what Ray Walston said to Paul.Newmam about Robert Shaw’s character in _The Sting,_ “He cheats…pretty good at it, too.” 😉 ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2026, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/2484 "2026-04-28T00:58:46Z")
I think we can safely say he’s a world class bullshit artist. Which is much more an indictment of humanity than an endorsement of him. Fooling morons is like fooling dogs: easy to do but hard to take pride in. ---
**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:** [April 28, 2026, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/2485 "2026-04-28T01:29:51Z")
> [@penultima\_thule](#): > > Now whether or not you (or myself) think this is a good thing is a matter for your goodself and likely a very solid majority of these boards. But a very comfortable plurality of Americans thought so then. And, despite some very robust attempts to dissuade them, may well still think so. For what reason are you continually chiding us here for what we so CLEARLY hate and are suffering under? WE are not the fuckheads who voted for him (although there is at least one who, while he wouldn’t vote for him, but couldn’t bring himself to vote for Harris). Your snipes at _us_ are aimed at the wrong people. It’s like you’re bitching at the Jews in Poland for Hitler’s transgressions. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2026, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/2486 "2026-04-28T03:38:52Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > Try to say one honest, not at all backhanded, good thing about Trump. This hurts, but… He doesn’t drink. Fuck. I need a drink now. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2026, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/2487 "2026-04-28T03:43:18Z")
> [@Pleonast](#): > > We should’ve gotten rid of the penny years ago. It’s mostly sentimentality that’s kept it around, Sentimentality which was fueled by [a lobbying group that was largely funded by a major zinc processor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americans_for_Common_Cents): “We make no secret that one of our major sponsors is a company that makes the zinc ‘blanks’ for pennies.” ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2026, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/2488 "2026-04-28T03:57:19Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > “Due to my SKILLFUL negotiations they have been released and are on this flash drive.” I am reminded of that TNG episode where a couple of virtual beings who’d escaped the holodeck were given their own universe in a memory cube to explore. If only we could persuade him to join the grateful rescuees. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2026, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/2489 "2026-04-28T04:21:14Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > I guess they could always attach a bungee cord to a loop on the back of his suit and that would hold him upright if he starts to topple. Sort of like [this fellow](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4X19izZ4iI&t=195s). ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2026, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/2490 "2026-04-28T04:38:07Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > Try to say one honest, not at all backhanded, good thing about Trump. He supported efforts to get the covid vaccine out to the public. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2026, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/2491 "2026-04-28T04:47:46Z")
That’s what i was going to say. He did a lot of covid wrong. He later stepped back from his vaccine victory. But he facilitated fast access to safe and effective vaccines. Trump did that right. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2026, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/2492 "2026-04-28T05:06:38Z")
Even a blind squirrel can find an acorn once in a while. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2026, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/2493 "2026-04-28T06:16:43Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > He supported efforts to get the covid vaccine out to the public. That was the one thing he did right, was jeered for it by MAGA, and afterward he never was an advocate for immunization (and instead put RFK Jr in charge of public health). While MAGA is in thrall to him, it’s a somewhat reciprocal (or perhaps codependent) kind of slavery. It’s like baking a lovely cake then peeing on it when your friends mock you for being a sissy baker. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2026, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/2494 "2026-04-28T07:18:45Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > How about, “he cheats pretty well for an elderly golfer”? Let’s suggest that he takes on Kim Jong-Un in a golf tournament? Winner is the competitor who gets the most holes in one. I’m thinking that Kim will get 11, and Trump will get 8. That’s on Kim’s home course; naturally, on one of Trump’s courses, Trump will get ten. ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2026, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/2495 "2026-04-28T11:02:55Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > This hurts, but… He doesn’t drink. How is that a good thing? Drinking might improve Herr Donald. ---
**Author:** ![MrAtoz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MrAtoz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrAtoz)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2026, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/2496 "2026-04-28T13:21:30Z")
Likewise. “Operation Warp Speed” was, in my mind, the biggest success of Trump’s first term. While it was not unique to him–any president would have tried to expedite vaccine development during COVID–he supported it and I’m willing to give him credit for that. Sadly, he was later booed at a rally for urging people to get vaccinated, and that was the end of that. ---
**Author:** ![TheTooth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/919ad9/32.png) [@TheTooth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheTooth)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2026, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/2497 "2026-04-28T17:34:44Z")
I don’t think he has the ability to understand what is said to him _now_. ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2026, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/2498 "2026-04-28T19:53:25Z")
He keeps flashing “tariff””.” ---
**Author:** ![Ancient\_Nerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed655f/32.png) [@Ancient\_Nerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ancient_Nerd)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2026, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/2499 "2026-04-29T06:37:37Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > He supported efforts to get the covid vaccine out to the public. Operation warp speed dropped to quarter impulse when it was time for production and distribution. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2026, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/2500 "2026-04-29T06:49:22Z")
> [@Ancient\_Nerd](#): > > Operation warp speed dropped to quarter impulse when it was time for production and distribution. As I recall there was also a lot of corruption involved (shocking, I know). ---
**Author:** ![Ancient\_Nerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed655f/32.png) [@Ancient\_Nerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ancient_Nerd)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2026, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/2501 "2026-04-30T07:17:24Z")
According to US Law, only dead people can have their picture on money. el donald wants to be on a coin. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520.md?page=124) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520.md?page=126)