This will be short and sweet, and I mean that second part! As you know Trump is bigly anti-DEI. He can give any excuse he wants but the plain fact is that in keeping with his ‘White and Males Only’ policy there was no way in hell he’d tolerate woman, much less a black woman being the Librarian – of Congress. Not the TV show but actual head of the Library of Congress. So he of course fired her. Ugly, but for a guy who PAINTS HIS FACE ORANGE the kind of ugly you’d expect. That meant he needed someone new to run things so naturally he picked someone totally unqualified for the job to serve as the Acting Librarian. But Trump wants to take over the whole Institution and appointed a couple of more toadies/goons who were promptly KICKED OUT. Escorted off the premises. Score one for the good guys!
As this article from Mediate tells us this whole mess started when Trump fired Librarian of Congress Dr. Carla Hayden. According to Trumpty she was pushing that diversity stuff, and also had “inappropriate books” in the collection. You know what? Art Of The Deal and other Trump fluffing works are no doubt in there so he’s not entirely wrong… However DEI is his main bullshit excuse. I say it was merely a convenient one because as I noted Dr. Hayden is a woman and she’s black.
Anyway, Trump appointed lawyer Todd Blanche as Acting Librarian. If that name is familiar it’s the same Todd Blance who LOST Trump’s hush money trial. Wait a minute – I thought Trumpy hated losers. And this was a very public and epic loss. You’d think Blanche would be the last person Trump, who had to pay some serious money to losing would have him banished from Trump World.
Oh well. Maybe while defending Trumpty Blanche learned some stuff that could make him the next Michael Cohen nightmare for Trump. What matters is that with the ball rolling Trump wanted to continue his hostile takeover of the Library of Congress, sort of Kennedy Center style? That’s when he ran into a problem call Reality. Not “reality” like his TV show but actual reality. It’s the Library of CONGRESS. Not the Executive Branch. The place is Congress’ baby and other than who runs it Presidents have no say in the place!
Dr. Hayden was by all accounts greatly respected and the good folks at the Library who happen to answer to Congress and not Trump were less than welcoming at the two would-be interlopers stomping through the place telling everyone Trump sent them to clean house, and probably added more like them were coming. But Trump didn’t have authority to appoint them to jack. So they were shown the door, as in escorted OUT.
That’s right, they got BOUNCED like a couple of interlopers at some “Beautiful People” exclusive club of the kind Trump partied at back when he was young. I don’t know about you but I find this funny as hell. I can only imagine Trump’s reaction when he found out. I’ve always wanted to see him get so hot under the collar all the caked on like Tammy Faye Bakker orange makeup melts from his face and ruins his suit. As I frequently say, I take my entertainment where I can find it. So if you’re feeling down just imagine Trumpt’s reaction to being told NO, and by some regular folks staffers at the Library of Congress!
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I was kinda worried when I saw that both of us had talked about the same thing. But as we do so often in Pz, ours are COMPLETELY DIFFERENT. I should know better than to worry about this sort of thing. Yours is MUCH more humorous than mine, and therefore I consider it to be the better piece. Thank you for the giggles!
I will be forever puzzledwhy this kind of bum’s-rush out the nearest door didn’t happen to all Musk’s stooges invading other institutions of OUR govt. Good for the mighty librarians! Now, how do they get Dr Hayden back?