At first I was perplexed. Trump is in the last 10 days of his failed presidency, and suddenly he’s jetting off to Texas to tour his stupid wall? Then the White House press office explained it. He was going to visit the wall to highlight his successes, and to burnish his legacy. Ahhh. Trump starts an armed insurrection, is facing his second impeachment trial in the Senate, has a 29% approval rating, but visiting a stupid wall, and reminding everybody that you gleefully threw toddlers in cages, is somehow going to make you all shiny and new. Got it.
But that’s the funny thing about burnishing a legacy. If you do something that you think makes your legacy all bright and shiny, the last thing you want to do is to then immediately turn around, and throw shit all over it. And that’s exactly what the Trump crime family is doing!
A few days ago, we saw visually another sign of the orderly and peaceful transition of power. Large cardboard boxes started being carried into the White House for packing the first family’s personal items, and a moving truck pulled into the complex. Just seeing that made my heart sing.
But of course, this being the Don Cornholeone gang, they had to go and muck it up. Over the last few days, we’ve been treated to visual images of White House advisor Peter Navarro wandering down the White House driveway to his car, carrying an oil painting. And other staff members, or possibly movers, have been seen carrying out treasures like what appears to be a bronze bust of Lincoln, along with other art works.
This has actually happened before. In 1814, during the War of 1812, the British sailed in and burned and ransacked Washington. History is replete with thrilling tales of the heroism of then First Lady Dolly Madison, personally helping to cart off valuables from the White House to keep them out of the hands of the British. Melania would be carting them off to FedEx.
Are these people really serious? The White House is one of the most heavily surveilled buildings on earth. Do they think they can just walk around looking at the trinkets, and saying to themselves, Hey! This would loo perfect on the mantlepiece, next to my framed pardon! There is a reason why the White House is referred to as The People’s House. It is actually owned by the National Park Service, and so is everything that’s in it that isn’t on loan from a museum or gallery. And while I’ve never worked at the White House, I’m pretty goddamn sure that the NPS has a complete inventory of every object in that house under their care.
Now, there can be one innocent explanation for at least part of this. Every First Lady normally redecorates the personal quarters to their personal taste. When it comes to Peter Navarro wandering down the driveway with that oil painting, it’s quite that it is something that Melania picked up off of Amazon, that would clash with the drapes at Mar-A-Lago. But somehow or other, I don’t see Melania ordering a bronze bust of Lincoln to decorate the Oval Office.
Are these people so vain and stupid that they think that they can just wander off with national treasures under their arms, and nobody is going to do anything about it? Or, is it possible that Trump is so stupid, pig headed and arrogant that he honestly believes that as long as he occupies the White House, all of this shit is his, and he can hand it out like Halloween candy?
I don’t know. But I do know that it isn’t going to be very long before the National Park Service goes off to get their shit back. And when they do, I hope they bring arrest warrants with them. Burnishing his legacy The photographic and video images of the Second Sacking of the White House will be the final burnishing of the legacy of the most incompetent crime family in human history.
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oh god did i tell you how much this shit is great.. How true… Only a trump would pull this act of defiance and think he can get away with it… … I say Let the courts deal with this moron… Pay Back Is a Mother (F??ker) Thank you Matt F.
Yes Virginia, they are, in FACT, that stupid.
Um, it was a large photograph of Trump and Chinese President Xi that was carried off by Peter Navarro. Some folks questioned if the removals were in fact museum staff reclaiming items. Navarro isn’t museum staff, and museum staff would properly wrap or package items for transport, not walk out holding the item in bare hands. I saw a photo of a woman carrying out a stuffed bird.
That was Meadows’s wife, and it was a stuffed pheasant. (Not something a museum would loan out: they’re remarkably fragile.)
Say it ain’t so mr christian!
I thought the trip to Texas was an attempt to redeem himself, after the backlash over the riot. Then again, I suppose the forced speech was that. Either way, I think he knows his butt is in a sling.
He knows that some envious and evil people who don’t appreciate his hard work, his genius and his golf swing are plotting to hurt him and his beautiful legacy. Nobody within his circle is straight with him and he’s the type of guy you’ll have to tell the facts repeatedly and correct him the very instant he tries to explain away, gaslight or rationalize something. The man can’t even accept that he’s obese or that he’s bald and a terrible dancer. Hell, I bet that if you were to ask him if he can close an umbrella he will say “I can close an umbrella just like that!” Even if a quick search on Youtube proves he can’t even manage that.
Honestly, I think people are making too much of this. We’ve seen someone carting a Lincoln bust which could be junk. And that’s it. Who wants photos of Trump with a cavalcade of dictators? They can have that shit.
Napoleon marched around Europe and North Africa, taking what he liked for France. I suspect Donnie considers himself the reincarnation of Napoleon, except he’s taller and better looking with a fuller head of hair, the embodiment of the US of A at this point. Saving beautiful items from the coloured communist feminist democrat hordes, by moving them to the winter White House in Florida, is the least he can do for a grateful people.
Or some such nonsense.
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I initially thought that they were taking things they brought with them, until I saw the Lincoln bust and the stuffed bird on their way out. I’m sure they’ll all be getting visits from the National Park Service to reclaim the items. I truly hope they arrest them for theft….
No wonder he didn’t like the throne in his bathroom. I though he was complaining about the conserving of water but if you can’t sh*t straight that is a personal matter. But don’t quote me. Lmao