Geraldo Rivera was once, if you can believe it, considered to be a genuine reporter but he descended into the fever swamps of Fox News and is now one of Trump’s most groveling sycophants. But he outdid himself with the suggestion he made yesterday.
To soften the blow of defeat Fox's Geraldo proposes naming the vaccine after Trump. "It would be a nice gesture to him and years from now it would become kind of a generic name. Have you got your trump yet, I got my trump, I'm fine. I wished we could honor him in that way." pic.twitter.com/fM8qwFhxF6
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) November 20, 2020
I think that a better idea would be to rename to coronavirus that causes covid-19 after Trump. Right now it has the awkward and hard-to-remember name of SARS-CoV-2. Calling it the ‘Trump virus’ would not only be easier, it would be more appropriate since it is his utter failure to deal with it that has now led to over a quarter of a million deaths in the US with no end in sight.
Then we could ask each other, “Have you got your immunity to Trump?”
Stephen King has approved of calling it Captain Trumps.
“Time to take a Trump.”
“Did you take a Trump today?” “No, I’m constipated.”
Etc, etc, etc!
Meh, what defeat? There’s no blow to soften.
Quoth Trump: “President Trump told reporters at the White House on Friday that he “won” the 2020 election and that people will “find that out” eventually before leaving the room without offering any evidence for his false claim.”
(https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/us-elections-government/ny-election-2020-trump-briefing-20201120-nycr2ieiqbdslalfbi5g4fxwb4-story.html)
I think we should call the pandemic “Trumpic Plague” or “Trump-Putin Plague”.
@4- that would be the TP Plague for short.