Donald Trump has insisted Iran must “open up the Strait of Trump” and complained about not winning the Nobel Peace Prize in a meandering speech at the Future Investment Initiative Institute summit in Miami, Florida.

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    Trump is desperate to get his name on everything before he dies. He’s always been desperate to get his name on things, and now that he’s getting older and more infirm, he positively reeks of desperation.

    But I suspect that the future historians won’t be kind to him and eventually we’ll get his name off of everything and his only real legacy will be in every list of history’s worst American Presidents.

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      “only real legacy will be in every list of history’s worst American President” and in in the Epstein Files and as a convicted felon and as a sexual predator and as a child rapist and …

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        I view that as part of the “worst President” information. You know. “In our countdown of the worst presidents, you knew you’d see the child rapist Donald Trump. But where will the convicted felon, serial liar, and insurrectionist go? Will he be the number one worst?”

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      Trump is desperate to get his name on everything before he dies.

      It’s like he’s a dying weasel scent-marking everying in its vicinity while in its death throes.

      Seriously, hurry up and have a massive stroke, do the world a favor for the first time in your diseased life, pig boy.

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      Once he’s gone, the name will become a slur applied to the corrupt and those lacking a moral compass

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      I read another commenter in another thread recently call it Damnatio Memoriae, a process often revealed in archaeology and / or ancient history whereby successors or the populace try to scrub a ruler from history.

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      considering who supplies the majority of US textbooks…unlikely to be nearly as negative as it should be

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      Back in the oil baron days they’d just fund a building for the public like a hospital or school but I guess he’s too broke for that.

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      I agree with you, and find myself imagining that the items with his name/face on them will be major targets for defacement and destruction, regardless of him being alive or not.

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        Unfortunately, that may increase the value of any surviving relics among his base.

        Like, we can destroy every coin or banknote that we see with his name or face on it, but somebody is going to stockpile them and sell them to other “true believers” once they become scarce…