Hello and welcome to the Americano podcast. This is an election year. Will Donald Trump be

re-elected? What is going on with the Democrats? And has America gone even more crazy? We'll be

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you will get 5% off. Please do so. I'm joined today by Jacob Heilbrun, who is editor of the national interest and our most

frequent guest on the Americana podcast. And we're going to be asking, has Corona killed Trump's

presidency? Jacob, we've done quite a few of these podcasts in the last three years, and quite often you seem to think

that Trump's presidency is done, he's finished, and you've been wrong so far, but I'm guessing

that you think this time you're onto a winner. I do, Freddie. I think the notion that Trump is

not in serious trouble is bollocks.

He bungled his address, his national address the other evening, inciting a almost over 2,000-point drop in the stock market yesterday, the worst day since 1987.

And he has conveyed ineptitude and incompetence in almost every area of dealing with the coronavirus. In fact, far from helping to solve it, he has exacerbated the crisis. Now it appears that members of his administration, including Attorney

General William P. Barr, Vice President Mike Pence, and perhaps Trump himself, have all been

potentially exposed to the virus itself. Trump's demise has been prognosticated many times, but this, in this instance, I think he

is confronted a crisis that he cannot evade. But I mean, the fact that Trump himself or members

of the cabinet might become infected with Corona, it doesn't necessarily have any bearing on how

it affects him politically, does it? I mean, if anything, it could help him. No, it doesn't necessarily have any bearing on how it affects him politically, does it? I mean,

if anything, it could help him. No, I don't think it will help him. He is sedulously promised to his

followers that the coronavirus is a hoax, and he resisted taking it seriously.

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