Plunged with elections just 4 months away corona in the usa trumps downfall. On. Thats our topic today on to the point of a very warm welcome and here are the guests who will answer that question its a pleasure to welcome down hamilton hes a professor for Political Science at Johns Hopkins University School of advanced International Studies hes also currently a robert bosch fellow in berlin and he says pandemic recession systemic racism all made worse by President Trump it is a combustible brew and its a pleasure to welcome Matthew Carney chickie is chief in europe of course a correspondent for. And his view the pandemic has trumps waterloo the main question now is not if he will lose but rather by how much. And were very glad to have. Been on the program she is Program Director at k. C. R w a Radio Station based here in berlin partners with the American Public radio and she says Donald Trumps performance regarding kofi 1000 may not matter because recessions lead to reelection losers.