- One of the many reforms of post-presidencies we need is to make it illegal to establish fundraising entities for presidential libraries before a president leaves office. (More fundamentally, or also, we don’t need presidential libraries. Give the papers to the LoC / National Archives.)
- ABC reports Trump to take “flying palace” from Qatar and use it as temporary Air Force 1 before converting it to a personal possession.
- I never thought we’d see the day when DJT was misusing shell entities but here we are.
- Presidential libraries are fine. Inhancing the educational opportunities and access to information of a region is good. Not centralizing everything in a country this big is good. It's the fundraising. Just regulate the fundraising and purpose.
- One of my gut checks: "Are we extending more honor, privilege, and prestige to the president than to the other two branches combined?" Even if they were publicly funded, these shrines are an example of what it looks like when the answer is yes.
- Corruption at its best
- It wouldn't matter if it was legal or not. Trump would break the law anyway.
- We shouldn't have shrines to former presidents to begin with. They're servants of the people hired to temporarily fill a job, not kings or gods. (I'd rather not have presidents to begin with though...)
