The circus goes south for the winter, to Florida, and that’s where it’s going to stay. On Wednesday morning (cue the countdown clocks) Donald Trump flies out of our lives forever as *president* with one more ride on Air Force One. And then he goes on to the next phase in his reality TV saga, that of uniting Trump world, getting his children elected to national office, and establishing the Trump Presidential Library. To do the last one, he needs a paltry $2 Billion, for a library and museum. Just for your convenient reference, Barack Obama’s Presidential Library cost $500 million. But Trump thinks the hard core MAGAts will pay for it, so why not ask for the moon. Pro tip: the average MAGAt has never been inside of a library or a museum. Washington Post:
Speculation is also coursing through Trump World about a possible presidential library and museum. No announcements have been made, but two people familiar with internal discussions said it is likely to be located in Florida and run by Dan Scavino, one of Trump’s longest-serving and most loyal aides who advises him on social media and most recently served as deputy White House chief of staff.
One of these people, who was a top fundraiser on Trump’s campaign, said the president has told supporters he wants to raise $2 billion for the library — a far greater sum than has been raised for past presidential libraries — and thinks he can collect it in small-dollar donations from his grass-roots supporters.
“I thought to myself, what is this alternative fantasy life you’re living?” this fundraiser said. “I have no clue where they think they’ll get this money raised. Anyone who gives to him will be radioactive.”
Asked about raising money for the library, another former top Trump fundraiser wrote in a text message: “Insane.” This person noted that, “except for the wackos, everybody’s running for the hills.”
Trump’s top donor, Sheldon Adelson, died recently so he won’t be on tap for this building fest.
Now cast your mind back to 2019, when Donald Trump Jr. and Vanilla Ice were discussing buying a 43 acre trailer part in Florida, for $1 Billion and putting the presidential library there. It is just possible that that plan is still on the table. We’ll find out.
Think of it, friends, what a treasure trove this library and museum could be. The weather map with the sharpie corrections. A bottle of bleach and a video of Trump asking Deborah Birx about drinking it while putting an ultra violet light up your who who.
And we go from there to the obligatory gold toilet, to paper towels that didn’t get thrown in Puerto Rico, to fake TIME Magazine covers.
And we can get creative. We could have one modern art piece that will feature the serial numbers of the breast implants of the Trump women. And of course we’ll have Melania’s “I Really Don’t Care, Do U?” pea coat. That should be quite a draw. We might want to encase that in plexiglas, like they do the Mona Lisa, so that nobody can touch it and the flash bulbs going off don’t fade it.
And we can recreate Melania’s Christmas trees, the white ones, the red ones, and have the audio, “Who gives a fuck about Christmas decorations” playing, for a multimedia extravaganza. This will be quite an exhibit.
And there will be autographed copies of Don Junior’s book, “Triggered” that nobody bought except the RNC, who bought it in mass quantities so it would go to the New York Times bestseller list.
Oh, and Rudy! Don’t forget Rudy! We can have a stuffed penguin with hair dye pouring down its face. And we’ll absolutely want to have a replica of the Four Seasons Landscaping Company, with full size figures. That goes without saying. Sort of a Trump nativity scene, and the faithful can come and revere it every Christmas.
Wait, there’s more! We want to document Sidney Powell’s entry into Trump world, which gained her some money — we are told $20K daily — but also got her a $1.3 Billion lawsuit. You do the math. Here’s what Powell’s exhibit will sound like. Axios:
President Trump was sitting in the Oval Office one day in late November when a call came in from lawyer Sidney Powell. “Ugh, Sidney,” he told the staff in the room before he picked up. “She’s getting a little crazy, isn’t she? She’s really gotta tone it down. No one believes this stuff. It’s just too much.”
- He put the call on speakerphone for the benefit of his audience. Powell was raving about a national security crisis involving the Iranians flipping votes in battleground states. Trump pressed mute and laughed mockingly.
- “So what are we gonna do about it, Sidney?” Trump would say every few seconds, whipping Powell more and more into a frenzy. He was having fun with it. “She really is crazy, huh?” he said, again with his finger on the mute button.
It was clear that Trump recognized how unhinged his outside legal advisers were. But he was becoming increasingly desperate about losing to Joe Biden, and Powell and her crew were willing to keep feeding the grand lie that the election could be overturned.
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They were selling Trump a seductive but delusional vision: a clear and achievable path to victory.
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The only catch: He’d have to stop listening to his government and campaign staffs, to cross the Rubicon and view them as liars, quitters and traitors.
Trump finally decided to have Powell come on board, saying, “sometimes you need a little crazy.” Crazy has never been in short supply in Trump world. They’ve got more crazy than Texas has oil or California has sunshine.
The Trump Presidential Library will be a $2,000,000,000 MAGA rally arena where the faithful can come and listen to tapes of rallies with a cardboard cut out of Trump propped up on the stage
— Sean Harrison (@harryleibniz) January 17, 2021
His actual library is on a shelf in Rick Wilson's office with 20 copies of Everything Trump touches dies.
— Stranjeer (@AbnormalDNA) January 17, 2021
That’s the truth of it. Wilson’s book, Michael Wolff’s book, Carl Bernstein’s book(s) and so forth. That’s the real library.
Yes, it won’t be built. Grifters gotta grift.
Maybe it will be like his wall. They’ll make a few models, build partially and he’ll talk about how it got done. The only problem is that if the faithful do a pilgrimage, it won’t be there.
A shell with nothing inside.
He’ll probably want to stock it with the stuff that was looted from the White House in sealed boxes (or the bust of Lincoln, the stuffed pheasant or other assorted ‘souvenirs’).
Do they give them the china? Anybody know?
They leave with what they brought. The building staff – who are not his staff – know what was there and if something disappears, they know where to start looking. (I doubt that they had a stuff pheasant there – taxidermied birds aren’t the WH style.)
So Trump thinks he can raise 2 billion? He swears he doesn’t do drugs but I call b.s. and in fact would like some of whatever he’s on. The funny part isn’t that he thinks he can get that much (and more) from small dollar donations from MAGAts but that as with his legal fund to “challenge the election results” three fourths of those donations (at least) he plans to put directly into his bank account instead of that “library.” I’m sure he figures that since he’s such a “master developer” that if Obama can do it for 500 million HE can do it on a couple hundred million dollar budget. And grift some more of THAT by stiffing contractors just like he’s done his entire life! So many stupid sheep out there he can shear, and the really sad part is that he’ll probably get millions of goobers sending him money for something that will never be built. If he can’t pay off the people that are waiting not at all patiently for him to do so, especially with assets being seized by creditors like Deutshe Bank (actual sort of legitimate ones that can go to court) hounding him he will take every penny donated to him to pay off the creditors who use baseball bats, ballpeen hammers and other tools to get folks to pay up. Not to mention a certain creditor and his pals that have access to certain chemical agents, or if they don’t want to leave that kind of signature experience in killing people that on the surface at least seem accidental. If he lives long enough Trump will easily justify to his base of idiots that it’s other people’s fault he hasn’t acquired land, or started construction. All those “regulations and red tape and they’re all out to get me” type blather and dollars to donuts the MAGAts will believe it!
without Twitter, YouTube, etc., how will he get to his marks to grift them?
oh my god ,,, you just made my day, how appropriate of an analogy of the great (TRUMP) NOT!!!!.. Please keep it up, I need a daily dose of diarrhea… Thats about all that flows from the mouths of the trump family…. Shall I say See you in hell Donny. You,re most ardent hater. Sgt M.G.F. USMC
I wonder what the entrance fee will be. Where will they put the statue of a gold plated big mac & fries? Out front? Or will he use the nude pics of natasha (bring me moose & squirrel), blown up to get the true patriots in there. U know. Like the seedy theatres. Could be worth the price. Hope they serve fried everything like the state fair.
Oh, & the rumor mill is mexico will pay for it.
I always pictured the Trump “Presidential” library as an adult bookstore with private booths out back.
*smirk*
Just two rooms.
One for the coloring books.
One for the crayons.
I wonder if that is where the artifacts from the WH will reappear.
I think “library” is not the word to use here.
More like the trump memorial outhouse, complete with gold leaf on the board with the hole and the walls, and a few old Playboy magazines sitting around!
Given his “taste” in decor, the library will be white-trash Versailles. Just like his New York apartment. Although he’ll manage costs by stiffing contractors.
These libraries handle all sorts of important documentation, memos behind executive orders, records of who visited the White House, who trump called etc.. Remember when they were taping together documents that trump tore in half. A lot of documentation is digital now, but there are still lots of information that will need to be researched in the future more so with this administration than just about any other. I don’t think trump will get any where close to 2 billion, plus the big dollar people are backing away.
I doubt that he’ll have any of that stuff: he’d have to work with the government he hates.
There will probably be a kiddies’ section where they’re handed torn up documents and rolls of sticky tape to re-combine them
Couldn’t he just hang out in the prison library? Maybe the warden would let him make a sign bearing his name, in woodshop, paint it gold, hang it over the library door.
The only book in The Donald’s Memorial Library would be Mein Kampf.
He would need a shelf for his Richie Rich comic book collection.