The Immanent Joy of Detrumpification

Saturday, December 20, 2025

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.

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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 | Reply

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 | Reply

OK, that does it. New mouse for Christmas!

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

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 | Reply

I am saving up jars of urine

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

@#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 | Reply

Seems like The 12th of Never.

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

@#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 | Reply

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 | Reply

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 | Reply

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 | Reply