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‘Their first instinct was to loot’: how Trump’s acolytes are plundering the Kennedy Center
(www.theguardian.com)
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Sure, a museum to remember the corruption would be good. Just leave out all identifying information, his name, his visage, nothing about the person and his regime. Only the story.
These people should be forgotten by time. We only need to remember their actions.
I actually like this idea. Perhaps the next President keeps the Hall of Presidents pictures/paintings up but leaves just Donald J Trump's name up on the plaque and no picture. Just a name that states yeah, there was this dude that was the 45th and then the 47th President. Nothing else.
Cheers. I do think it is very important to be far more respectful than he is, what with the stupid autopen BS. It is so tempting to put up a picture of a rotting turd... That is just not the example one should set for the people. :x
Respectfully, there is not much less that can be done than just put up a plaque with a name on it as a mere placeholder. If an image must be used, let it be that painted portrait that he hated.
Unfortunately, and ironically, he will be one of the most studied presidents in history. He will be the subject of books and Masters and PhD theses for the rest of this century.
Well, as long as it's left to academia and not made into a "movie of the week' scenario..
The govenrment and the media should offer little more than the damming accolades of faint praise.