The Immanent Joy of Detrumpification

Sunday, December 21, 2025

Matt Ford: As the president graffitis his name to beloved institutions and builds monuments to his own vanity, we must focus on how much fun it will be to tear it all down.

Posted by Corky at 08:32 PM | 29 COMMENTS | permalink

More for my own mental health than anything, here are some photos of Trump's name being stripped off buildings

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-- Helen Kennedy (@helenkennedy.bsky.social) Dec 18, 2025 at 1:24 PM

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"For now, it is enough to say that the end of Trump's presidency must be palpably different from previous changes in administrations. Detrumpification must have a visual and physical record. It must be an event and a celebration.

It must be an enduring memory and a warning to anyone who hopes to venerate authoritarian figures on American soil in the future. It must represent not just a political defeat but a societal rejection of Trumpism itself.

What Trump and his allies are doing, after all, is not really about honoring him. These tributes are meant to carry the same message as an unrepaired hole in the wall left by a violent domestic abuser's fist.

The goal is to humiliate and to intimidate anyone who didn't support him, to imply violence without leaving bruises, and to create a perpetual sense of unease, despair, and dread.

To visibly erase his image and his name from American public life would not be a distraction from moving forward but rather a prerequisite for it."

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Well said.... the article is quite thorough about the reasons why.

#1 | Posted by Corky at 2025-12-20 08:10 PM

The goal is to humiliate and to intimidate anyone who didn't support him, to imply violence without leaving bruises, and to create a perpetual sense of unease, despair, and dread.

To visibly erase his image and his name from American public life would not be a distraction from moving forward but rather a prerequisite for it."

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Well said.... the article is quite thorough about the reasons why.

#2 | Posted by Corky at 2025-12-20 08:10 PM

OK, that does it. New mouse for Christmas!

#3 | Posted by Corky at 2025-12-20 08:10 PM

If I may ask one question ...

When has a Federal Memorial (via a law passed by Congress) been created for a living President?

And, as a follow-up questions ...

What laws might Pres Trump be breaking in his efforts to place his name on Federal ~stuff?~

#4 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-12-20 08:13 PM

I am saving up jars of urine

#5 | Posted by truthhurts at 2025-12-20 09:14 PM

@#2 ... the end of Trump's presidency ...

OK, that raises more questions than it answers.

For example ...

When might Pres Trump's presidency end?

#6 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-12-20 09:21 PM

Seems like The 12th of Never.

www.youtube.com

#7 | Posted by Corky at 2025-12-20 09:41 PM

@#7

My current view is that you may be looking towards a future that may not be allowed to exist.

The Twelfth of Never
en.wikipedia.org

... "The Twelfth of Never" is a popular song adapted from an old English folk song in 1956 by Jerry Livingston and Paul Francis Webster. Various recording artists have had chart hits with "The Twelfth of Never", including Johnny Mathis, Cliff Richard, Donny Osmond and Slim Whitman. ...

"The Twelfth of Never" was adapted from "The Riddle Song" (also known as "I Gave My Love a Cherry"), an old English folk song. Jerry Livingston and Paul Francis Webster wrote the bridge and new lyrics in 1956.[1]

The title "The Twelfth of Never" is an idiom referring to the date of a future occurrence that will never come to pass.[2] In the case of the song, "the 12th of Never" is given as the date on which the singer will stop loving his beloved, thus indicating that he will always love her. ...

#8 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-12-20 11:09 PM

Desh*ttifying what Trump and his loathsome goons have ensh*ttified is a worthy task but yuuge, when you consider the depths of what is likely permanent damage already been wrought on the office and nation.

#9 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-12-21 06:36 AM

When might Pres Trump's presidency end?

#6 | Posted by LampLighter

When the old man dies.

I try to imagine a nation in mourning but fail.

#10 | Posted by Zed at 2025-12-21 08:20 AM

When Trump dies, there will be massive popular resistance to the idea that his body should repose in state in the US Capitol.

After he dies, there will arise the firm belief that wherever he is buried is unpleasantly haunted.

I'll bet anyone a five-spot on both above.

#11 | Posted by Zed at 2025-12-21 08:45 AM

There will be a very long line to piss on his grave.

If he ever dies... I understand his AI Robot body is almost ready for the cognition transfer.

#12 | Posted by Corky at 2025-12-21 12:05 PM

Whatever cognition might've once been present vanished ages ago.
.

#13 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-12-21 02:18 PM

There will be a very long line to piss on his grave.

If he ever dies... I understand his AI Robot body is almost ready for the cognition transfer.

#12 | POSTED BY CORKY

I will take a 1,2 and a 3 there. It would be worth the indecent exposure charge.

#14 | Posted by a_monson at 2025-12-22 09:30 AM

If he ever dies... I understand his AI Robot body is almost ready for the cognition transfer.
They are going to create an idiotic pedophilic rapebot?

#15 | Posted by MBlue at 2025-12-22 09:37 AM

They are going to create an idiotic pedophilic rapebot?

#15 | POSTED BY MBLUE

Yes.

And it will be colored orange.

#16 | Posted by Zed at 2025-12-22 09:38 AM

The person who wrote that article is a delusional clown

#17 | Posted by THEBULL at 2025-12-22 11:25 AM

I went down to the old Kennedy Center. The ugly Donald Trump stuff isn't quite the same size as the existing lettering.

It was more important to Trump get his name up there, than to make it look decent lol.

Like he needs to see it get done soon, before he dies.

#18 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-12-22 11:26 AM

#17 | POSTED BY THEBULL

Donald Trump is the most hated man on the planet, not excepting Putin.

Television commentators will have to urge public restraint in celebration once the man dies.

You are allowed to skip the party if you want to.

#19 | Posted by Zed at 2025-12-22 11:30 AM

Imagine being so clueless about how to better the country, that you have to inspire tearing things down.

There is a reason Democrats are below 18% in approval ratings.

bUh tHe bLuE wAvE!!!

#20 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-12-23 10:51 AM

inspire tearing things down.

20 | POSTED BY LFTHNDTHRDS

Removing Trump's names from a few buildings is no trouble at all.

In regards to his ballroom, a lottery could be held and several thousand citizens randomly selected to come bust the thing up like the Berlin Wall.

#21 | Posted by Zed at 2025-12-23 10:58 AM

Imagine being so clueless about how to better the country, that you have to inspire tearing things down.
There is a reason Democrats are below 18% in approval ratings.
bUh tHe bLuE wAvE!!!

#20 | Posted by lfthndthrds

Then why do you keep losing elections?

And barely winning them in areas that Trump won by 20+ points?

#22 | Posted by Sycophant at 2025-12-23 11:50 AM

Somebody missed the joy of spell check.

#23 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-12-23 01:39 PM

#20 "Imagine being so clueless about how to better the country, that you have to inspire tearing things down."

In October 2025, President Donald Trump ordered the demolition of the White House East Wing to build a massive new ballroom...

Clueless, indeed.

#24 | Posted by A_Friend at 2025-12-23 01:55 PM

Then why do you keep losing elections?

#22 | Posted by Sycophant at 2025-12-23 11:50 AM | Reply | Flag:

Says the minority party.

Losing elections for circuit judges and governors in deep blue territory isn't the flex you advertise.

#25 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-12-24 09:44 AM

#25 Apparently, Left Hind Turd didn't get the memorandum from just last month:

'Tis like shooting fish in a barrel ...

-> Georgia voters ousted two Republican members of the state's Public Service Commission in favor of two Democrats - the first Democrats to win statewide nonfederal offices in decades.

-> Democrats in Mississippi Break the G.O.P.'s State House Supermajority

-> Every single county in Virginia - even deeply red counties - saw shifts TOWARDS the Democrats, as opposed to how they voted 1 year ago.

-> Dems flip Wichita School Board from a 4-3 GOP majority to a 5-2 Democratic majority. Democratic candidates Amy Warren and Amy Jensen defeated Republican incumbents Hazel Stabler and Kathy Bond.

-> Two of Tuesday's school board elections were in Bucks County, Pa., which was considered "ground zero" for right-wing groups' takeover of school boards in 2021. A few years ago, conservatives on these boards in Pennbridge and Central Bucks districts were using their roles to pass policies targeting LGBTQ+ students and banning books.

---> Democrats flipped control of both boards in 2023, and on Tuesday, they ousted every Republican from both of these boards, except for one. The Pennbridge school board is now 8-1, with Democratic members in control. The Central Bucks school board is 9-0.

-> In Texas, we even won in Lockhart, which sits in a district so red that Democrats normally don't even run. We had a clean sweep in Cy-Fair ISD, another deeply red area that not even Greg Abbott could save your party.

-> In SD-9, another red district, we saw an 8 point shift for the Democrat

-> Eileen Higgins elected as first Democratic mayor of Miami in three decades

Those are not "deep blue territory"

#26 | Posted by A_Friend at 2025-12-24 09:50 AM

#26 | Posted by A_Friend at 2025-12-24 09:50 AM | Reply | Flag:

Then get something done.

#27 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-12-24 10:27 AM

Then get something done.

#27 | Posted by lfthndthrds

I think that we will.

But it will be in the face of the determined criminality of Donald J. Trump.

#28 | Posted by Zed at 2025-12-24 10:43 AM

#27 What does that have to do with the fact that those victories were not, as you claimed, in deep blue territory?

#29 | Posted by A_Friend at 2025-12-24 11:55 AM

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