The trump virus, also known as Xenovirus Takis-B, is an artificial organism created by Dr. Tachyon as a possible cure for the wild card virus. Ideally, the trump virus reverses the genetic changes caused by the wild card virus, transforming a wild carder back into a normal person. According to Clara van Renssaeler's assessment the Trump virus "is only successful in about twenty-four percent of attempts. Forty-seven percent of the time it doesn’t work at all, and an appalling twenty-nine percent of the time, it outright kills the patient. In other words, it’s more likely to kill than cure." The Jokertown Clinic only uses the trump virus as a last resort, in the most severe cases where the victim has nothing to lose. One such case was that of James Spector, who died and came back to life as