# Would you prefer Trump to one of history's worst presidents? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [August 7, 2023, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-prefer-trump-to-one-of-historys-worst-presidents/988176 "2023-08-07T07:44:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2024, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-prefer-trump-to-one-of-historys-worst-presidents/988176/121 "2024-03-01T15:28:22Z")
I feel you’re overthinking this. Trump’s skills as a businessman were on par with his skills as a political leader. I have strong doubts that Trump could have figured out the economic aspects of a pandemic and even stronger doubts that he ever tried. ---
**Author:** ![griffin1977](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@griffin1977](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/griffin1977)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2024, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-prefer-trump-to-one-of-historys-worst-presidents/988176/122 "2024-03-01T15:29:34Z")
> [@psychonaut](#): > > offering to transport a copy of you into an alternate universe where one of the people in the poll has been legitimately elected president But what will happen to the original me in that alternate universe? Will they get transported to our sucky universe and have to put up with world of suck that is the the IRL Trump 2024 election campaign? I’m not sure I can live with that morally 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2024, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-prefer-trump-to-one-of-historys-worst-presidents/988176/123 "2024-03-01T15:47:09Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > I have strong doubts that Trump could have figured out the economic aspects of a pandemic and even stronger doubts that he ever tried. While I know it’s risky ever taking Trump at his word, well, [we do have his words on this](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-told-bob-woodward-he-knew-february-covid-19-was-n1239658). > On March 9, weeks after he told Woodward that the coronavirus was more than five times deadlier than the flu, [Trump tweeted](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1237027356314869761): “So last year 37,000 Americans died from the common Flu. It averages between 27,000 and 70,000 per year. **Nothing is shut down, life & the economy go on.** At this moment there are 546 confirmed cases of CoronaVirus, with 22 deaths. Think about that!” ---
**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:** [March 2, 2024, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-prefer-trump-to-one-of-historys-worst-presidents/988176/124 "2024-03-02T00:33:37Z")
> [@Horatius quoting the Trumpster](#): > > At this moment there are 546 confirmed cases of CoronaVirus, with 22 deaths. Think about that!” As the fellow who fell off the Empire State building was heard to remark as he passed the 82nd floor, “So far, so good.” ---
**Author:** ![Moriarty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moriarty/32/49_2.png) [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2024, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-prefer-trump-to-one-of-historys-worst-presidents/988176/125 "2024-03-02T02:45:06Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > He _could_ have been a President that had a major pandemic on his hands – something he can’t be blamed for, not even him – but mustered the resources for beating it early. He would have won the 2020 election in a walk. I agree with this completely. But he’d have had to, you know, wear a mask. (And those get makeup stains on them!) Instead, we were treating to his supporters bleating “It’s not fair to judge him on all four years of his presidency!” ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2024, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-prefer-trump-to-one-of-historys-worst-presidents/988176/126 "2024-03-02T03:06:03Z")
> [@Moriarty](#): > > “It’s not fair to judge him on all four years of his presidency!” Okay, fine, we’ll just judge him on the last … _month_ of his presidency. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_S](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@Max\_S](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_S)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2024, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-prefer-trump-to-one-of-historys-worst-presidents/988176/127 "2024-03-03T07:35:35Z")
> [@psychonaut](#): > > I think you are getting too hung up on the framing device for this fanciful hypothetical. The answer you want from me is Andrew Johnson, and I’ll change my vote accordingly, but I wouldn’t take the genie’s offer even in your new hypothetical. ~Max ---
**Author:** ![Stratocaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stratocaster/32/16393_2.png) [@Stratocaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stratocaster)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2024, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-prefer-trump-to-one-of-historys-worst-presidents/988176/128 "2024-03-03T17:01:37Z")
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