The post-Trump era in American history is about to begin. Just as Joe Biden is planning his transition into the presidency, so must Donald Trump begin to plan for his life after the White House.
He will need to decide where to live — and I’ll have more on that in another diary — and staying out of prison may play a part in that.
Trump will get a pension, secret service protection, health care at Walter Reed, travel expenses and he can gouge the GSA for office space. Like the last 14 of his predecessors the impeached expresident will also get to work with the National Archives on a presidential library in which to archive documents from his presidency. www.archives.gov/.…
The initial construction costs for all presidential libraries, including the initial museum exhibits, come from non-Federal sources, the majority of which are obtained through private donations to a Presidential foundation, or from the former president’s campaign or other organizations. Trump ain’t getting a nickel of mine — but he’ll raise and spend some money on his personal glorification and an effort to control his historical legacy as something other than a giant stinking pile of failure, misery, death and denial.
Like Trump himself, his presidential library is sure to be unconventional.
In the digital era it could be a virtual space (National Archives provides virtual access to all the presidential libraries www.archives.gov/...), an empty box would be fitting, but I think Trump being Trump he will want a tasteless glitzy monstrosity of a building, bigger and better and shinier than any other presidential library — better than Abe Lincoln’s for sure www.alplm.org/....
There certainly won’t be a need for many book shelves in Trump’s library, since he has little use for books, but curating all those tweets and photos and televised episodes of the last 4 years of his White House reality horror show will require some space. There will need to be a hall of MAGA hats and Trump flags, a theatre and lots of video and audio. A whole section devoted to Infrastructure Week. A big room to curate the news for each time the press noted that “Mr Trump had a very bad week” and ‘Trump had another bad Week’ — that section will take up most of the place. A room filled with mirrors and American flags in which all the lies are displayed. A hair style, skin care and tie section. The Hoax Room. The Fake News section. The Sharpie Room. Then a hall of Tweets, with a display of the phones used to create them and maybe a model of those dainty hands and stubby fingers doing the deeds. The “my crowd was bigger than your crowd funhouse mirror room” where you can also see the lift shoes and scale that helped Donald prove he was not obese. I suppose there needs to be a hall of perfect phone calls where you can listen in on the Zelensky call and another for all the beautiful letters from Kim Jong Un.
I’ll leave the inside of the structure up to actual architects and designers but you might consider giving them some suggestions.
The edifice itself could be designed to resemble a giant golden I phone — I think that would be fitting. It should appear to be hovering untethered to the ground, without any obvious means of support, hanging above the ground in black empty void of space.
This reminds me of an apocryphal story that the singer-songwriter and labor organizer Bruce ‘Utah’ Phillips liked to tell about Richard Nixon’s Vice President Spiro Agnew and his library — Phillips recorded a version part way through the ‘Cannonball Blues’ song on his ‘Good Though’ album
Have fun with it.
64 days and counting, www.timeanddate.com/...
gives me time to learn to say ‘good bye asshat’ in a few more languages.
Monday, Nov 16, 2020 · 4:07:24 PM +00:00 · ARodinFan
Thanks to all who have submitted their amusing and otherwise well considered comments.
Please watch for my upcoming diary suggesting the various places where the disgraced impeached one term president might consider spending his post presidency.