
BREAKING: MAGA world explodes with rage as a brutal op-ed entitled “Why every vestige of Trump must be torn down” and “smashed to bits” goes viral for advocating the complete erasure of his legacy.
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“Donald Trump has always loved slapping his name on things. It reflects a desperate desire for acknowledgement, a yearning to be seen and known by others, a cry of ‘I exist, and I am important!’ shouted to the universe,” begins the Substack piece by journalist Paul Waldman. “Now, with the power of the federal government in his hands, he’s doing more of it than ever — much more than in his first term.”
“It goes beyond an exercise in branding. Trump is seeking a physical legacy, a collection of signs and structures that will pay eternal tribute to his greatness,” observes Waldman. “Which is why it is so important — and why it will be so rewarding — for the next Democratic president to tear it all down and smash it to bits.”
He goes on to explain that such a scorched earth policy wouldn’t be “petty revenge” even if there would “undoubtedly” be a bit of that involved. More importantly he writes, scrubbing Trump from our nation is about “emerging from this dark period in our history” and it will “require a sweeping, comprehensive strategy of repudiation and repair, one that encompasses the substantive, the procedural, and the symbolic.”
Waldman goes on to slam Trump’s “frenzy of construction and renaming” in recent months as evidence that he “suddenly realized” that he could break the norm against naming things after sitting presidents.
“In the past, a president had to merely hope that if he achieved greatness, the nation would one day express its thanks to him by erecting statues and putting his name on elementary schools. To hell with that, Trump said,” writes Waldman.
He goes on to list the myriad and pathetic ways in which Trump is scrambling to etch out a legacy for himself. The worst president in American history is minting a commemorative coin with his face on it, renamed the U.S. Institute of Peace as “The Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace” and the Kennedy Center as “The Trump Kennedy Center.”
On top of that, he destroyed the East Wing of the White House to erect a gaudy $300 million ballroom (paid for by corrupt donations from wealthy cronies and powerful corporations seeking favorable policies from his administration).
He’s also planning a hideous “triumphal arch” and has unveiled his plans to create a “Golden Fleet” with a Trump Class battleship.
“And that’s after Trump Rx (a web site for comparing drug prices), Trump Accounts (a version of baby bonds), and the Trump Gold Card, a way for rich foreign jagoffs to buy their way into permanent US residency,” writes Waldman.
The op-ed correctly identifies Trump’s fixation on stamping his name everywhere as a mix of “narcissism, insecurity, self-aggrandizement, the mania of the cult leader,” as well as a fear of his own mortality. Waldman recounts some of the recent occasions on which Trump has reflected on his own death and the unlikelihood that he’ll get into heaven.
Then, Waldmen drops the good news: We can simply tear Trump’s name off of everything the moment that Democrats retake power.
“Best of all, unless he drops dead in the next few years, Trump will be around to watch the legacy he dreamed of reduced to dust,” he writes, calling for the “destruction” to “begin without delay” within the “first hours and days of the next president’s term.”
“And not just the name, but every vulgar trace of him: Chisel off the letters, take down the photos, melt down the stupid coins, tear out his patio and replant the Rose Garden, strip all the chintzy gold appliques from the walls of the Oval Office,” Waldman continues.
“Maybe even demolish the ballroom, but at the very least remodel it so it doesn’t look so much like an obscene mashup of the Winter Palace and Saddam Hussein’s bathroom, then rename it for someone he hates. The Obama Ballroom has a nice ring to it,” he writes.
“The images of Trump’s erasure should live on for years, reproduced and memeified, until they become as familiar as Buzz Aldrin walking on the moon or the sailor kissing the nurse on V-J Day in Times Square,” he writes. “In the end, the visual memory of Trumpism should have two parts: His repulsive desecration of our nation’s capital, leading to the restorative and redemptive eradication of every trace of him.”
He says that Democrats must ignore the inevitable whining from Trump and Republicans over the erasure and reply with a simple: “Too bad. We have the power now.”
“That cleansing purge must be thorough and complete, and to do it right, we should start planning now,” Waldman concludes.
We couldn’t agree more with this plan! Trump’s governing legacy is one of ashes. He has destroyed America’s reputation on the world stage, crippled our economy with pointless tariffs, terrorized minority communities with fascist ICE raids, and signed a “big, beautiful bill” that amounted to a massive handout to the rich while slashing $1 trillion from Medicaid.
Trump’s policies will be reviled for generations to come and it’s only fitting that we take away the only thing that he really cares about: the monuments to his own ego.
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