It is no surprise at all that the world’s most powerful narcissist would want to see his face on a dollar coin and the $100 bill, his identify on an NFL stadium and a global airport, his head on Mount Rushmore and his golden doodads and filigree everywhere in the previously tasteful and revered White Home.
There isn’t a restrict to the self-celebration, self-regard and self-aggrandizing relating to President Donald J. Trump. What is really sick is how the once-great Republican Celebration has been became a cult that treats its president as a demigod who deserves all of the honors he needs.
Trump is agitating to have the brand new NFL stadium in Washington, D.C., named after himself. There may be additionally a push to rename Dulles Worldwide Airport after the sitting president. The Treasury Division already has the greenback coin within the works with Trump on each sides of the design. The concept for a Trump $100 invoice is alive within the Republican Congress.
Maybe probably the most insane proposal has been put ahead by Florida GOP Congressman Anna Paulina Luna, who has launched HR 792, a invoice that, if enacted, would direct the Secretary of the Inside to have Trump’s visage carved alongside the monumental, sculptured faces of Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Thomas Jefferson and George Washington on Mount Rushmore.
Washington, because the nation’s first president, resisted any glorification that may give a royal patina to his presidency. He set an instance that lasted for almost 250 years till Trump arrived together with his impulse to place his identify on the whole lot. The comparatively few monuments we have now to presidents have been all erected lengthy after these presidents had died and historians had been capable of assess their greatness, however Trump doesn’t even wish to wait till he’s out of workplace for his apotheosis.
Possibly that’s as a result of he is aware of deep down in his craven soul that historians are sure to put him within the historical past books as probably the most unworthy, corrupt and harmful man ever to turn out to be president of the US.
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