# Trump Is The Real Victim **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 10, 2020, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-the-real-victim/914942 "2020-07-10T14:41:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2020, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-the-real-victim/914942/21 "2020-07-10T21:30:11Z")
> [@Pardel-Lux](#): > > Of one thing I am sure, though: He will anounce a cure/vaccine in the third week of October. The cure/vaccine will not work, I am sorry to say, but he will hope to turn the tide just before the election. That’s going to be tricky. He’s already announced at least five “cures” – just off the top of my head, 1) magic – COVID will be gone like magic in “just a few days”; 2) hydroxychloroquine – in the ultimate celebrity endorsement, he said he was taking it himself; 3) injecting or drinking Clorox bleach, 4) shining a very bright light up your ass, and 5) warm summer weather will kill the virus (more magic). The last three are probably the funniest and most farcical, #5 because the current worst COVID hotstpots are Texas, Florida, and California. As for announcing a vaccine, useless or otherwise, remember the mentality of Trump’s base. “I ain’t takin’ no stinkin’ gubbermint vaccine” is practically a religious credo with these fucking knucke-dragging troglodytes who won’t even wear a mask. ---
**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:** [July 10, 2020, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-the-real-victim/914942/22 "2020-07-10T21:32:37Z")
And if a vaccine is developed, I promise not to force anyone to get it. Freedom! Vote Bo 2020! ---
**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:** [July 10, 2020, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-the-real-victim/914942/23 "2020-07-10T22:19:03Z")
Fuck that. I’ll be president and force anti-vaxxers to get the vaccination at gunpoint! 😃 ---
**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:** [July 11, 2020, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-the-real-victim/914942/24 "2020-07-11T14:05:44Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Only $100? No effing way! Try $2,000 per dose, minimum. Gots to pay for all that research (and golf course maintenance). Trump has ever been about quantity, not quality, and there are a lot more rubes with $100 in their pocket than 2-grand. And there’s always shipping. “But wait! Order in the next ten minutes and I’ll throw in this package of Trump steaks! _Now_ how much would you pay?” ---
**Author:** ![KarlGauss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karlgauss/32/3713_2.png) [@KarlGauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGauss)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2020, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-the-real-victim/914942/25 "2020-07-11T20:58:36Z")
**wolfpup** said: > That’s going to be tricky. He’s already announced at least five “cures” . . . 5) warm summer weather will kill the virus (more magic). The last three are probably the funniest and most farcical, #5 because the current worst COVID hotstpots are Texas, Florida, and California. Texas, Florida, and California IN JULY! ---
**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:** [July 11, 2020, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-the-real-victim/914942/26 "2020-07-11T21:19:39Z")
> [@KarlGauss](#): > > Texas, Florida, and California IN JULY! Well, we’re under a heat advisory-- heat indices of 110 expected. And it’s NOT a “dry heat.” Surely THAT will kill the virus, right?? ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2020, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-the-real-victim/914942/27 "2020-07-11T21:39:51Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Well, we’re under a heat advisory-- heat indices of 110 expected. And it’s NOT a “dry heat.” Surely THAT will kill the virus, right?? Yes, it will be gone in just a few days, [just like the man said](https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/politics/19-times-trump-said-the-coronavirus-would-go-away/2020/04/30/d2593312-9593-4ec2-aff7-72c1438fca0e_video.html). By WaPo’s count, he said it at least 19 times. Thanks to the Orange Peril, under his leadership the USA will have the bigliest comeback in history. No one else could have done what the Orange One has done.\* \* Actually, that part may well be true: [https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/11/health/us-coronavirus-saturday/index.html](https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/11/health/us-coronavirus-saturday/index.html) ---
**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:** [July 12, 2020, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-the-real-victim/914942/28 "2020-07-12T00:24:53Z")
Couldn’t you have edited out some of them emojis, **Miller** , as long as you were on a roll? ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2020, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-the-real-victim/914942/29 "2020-07-12T00:45:31Z")
What do you have against emojis? 🐈 🐠? ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2020, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-the-real-victim/914942/30 "2020-07-12T12:00:40Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Well, we’re under a heat advisory-- heat indices of 110 expected. And it’s NOT a “dry heat.” Surely THAT will kill the virus, right?? Leave it to a republican to try and fight an epidemic with global warming. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2020, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-the-real-victim/914942/31 "2020-07-12T17:37:19Z")
[Trump on private border wall segment: ‘It was only done to make me look bad’](https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-private-border-wall-segment-123206928.html) Yep, even erosion is a plot against Trump. ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2020, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-the-real-victim/914942/32 "2020-07-13T01:28:45Z")
Apparently Trump’s handlers have been trying to do everything they can to [cheer him up](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-the-victim-president-complains-in-private-about-the-pandemic-hurting-himself/2020/07/09/187142c6-c089-11ea-864a-0dd31b9d6917_story.html) (sorry washington post paywall) > Other top White House advisers — including Hope Hicks and Dan Scavino — have also sought to buttress Trump’s mood with events they thought he would enjoy, such as celebrating truckers by bringing 18-wheelers onto the White House South Lawn in mid-April or creating social media videos that feature throngs of his adoring fans, according to aides. Now Donnie I know you’re all upset about the nasty virus, but look out the window! There’s Trucks!, Trucks! They might even let you toot the horn! ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2020, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-the-real-victim/914942/33 "2020-07-13T03:23:37Z")
Well, heat may well slow it down, but it also chases everyone indoors to the A/C, both reducing the temperature and making it easier to breathe recycled virus droplets. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2020, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-the-real-victim/914942/34 "2020-07-13T23:41:38Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > [Trump on private border wall segment: ‘It was only done to make me look bad’](https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-private-border-wall-segment-123206928.html) > > Yep, even erosion is a plot against Trump. Something pinged my radar about this. Ah yessss........ That yahoo article cites a ProPublica/TexasTribune article, but fails to mention something that the cited article does mention: This is the same company that was controversially given the contract last May, after the company owner had been lavishing praise on Trump on Fox interviews and his family had been donating lavishly to Republican candidate US Sen. Kevin Cramer who seems to have connections with Jared Kushner and Steve Bannon. IIRC there was some question whether this company had any business or expertise in building walls like this, not to mention being located in far-off North Dakota. Yeah, that company. So now Trump trashes them because they deliberately built the wall just to make him look bad. [Trump says he disagreed with privately funded border wall. The builder got $1.7 billion in wall contracts from his administration.](https://www.texastribune.org/2020/07/12/texas-border-wall-private/), Perla Travizo and Jeremy Schwartz, Texas Tribune and ProPublica Investigative Unit, July 12, 2020. ETA: Here’s yer OneBox: > **[Trump says he disagreed with privately funded border wall. The builder got...](https://www.texastribune.org/2020/07/12/texas-border-wall-private/)** > > President Donald Trump now claims this privately funded border wall in the Rio Grande Valley — touted as the "Lamborghini" of fences — was built to "make me look bad," even though the project's builder and funders are all Trump supporters. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2020, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-the-real-victim/914942/35 "2020-07-13T23:55:37Z")
“We have no idea how to do this, but will take your money anyway” Since this is Trumps entire business model, he couldn’t resist. ---
**Author:** ![kanicbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f8ce5/32.png) [@kanicbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kanicbird)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2020, 10:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-the-real-victim/914942/36 "2020-08-08T10:41:42Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > > [@DesertDog](#): > > > > I can see him now, in a misbuttoned lab coat holding up a half-liter Erlenmeyer flask filled with green liquid and a chunk of dry ice on the bottom. “It was hard work but somehow I found the time to come up with The Cure in my sekrit laboratory. I’m charging only $100 a dose. Call now, operators are standing by!”- > > Only $100? No effing way! Try $2,000 per dose, minimum. Gots to pay for all that research (and golf course maintenance). He did say early on that when a vaccine was released not all Americans will be able to afford it. [Trump Administration Says Coronavirus Vaccine Will Be Affordable After Backlash](https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-administration-says-coronavirus-vaccine-may-not-be-affordable-2020-2) ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2020, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-the-real-victim/914942/37 "2020-08-08T11:58:37Z")
It’s a Trumpian 2-fer. Money for a corporation and ‘punishment’ for poor people. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-the-real-victim/914942.md?page=1)