How Trump Will Be Remembered

We all wonder how history will regard Donald Trump after he’s gone.

To me the photo at left summarizes it nicely.  It captures Trump at left and a man at right who has collapsed during a meeting in the Oval Office beneath a gaggle of actual human being who have come to his aid.  What we are seeing is something we already knew: Trump couldn’t care less about anyone but himself.

What was going through his head?  Call a doctor?  An ambulance?  Why?

The presidency of the United States has been marred throughout its history with selfish, cruel, and dishonest people.  Frequently ranked as the worst are James Buchanan, Andrew Johnson, Franklin Pierce, and Warren G. Harding. Nobody sees too concerned about Andrew Jackson, the master butcherer of the Native Americans, or Richard Nixon, a complex and intelligent man, but garden slime nonetheless.  

Yet none of these can touch Trump.

Keep in mind that the president knew pictures were being taken but couldn’t find a way to at least appear sympathetic.

He was born without that gene. Perhaps literally; he comes from a line of total assholes.