Maybe a tad prematurely for a term that ends only in 2029, the Trump Organisation has released a short video on Truth Social revealing, with a dizzying CGI fly-throughs, proposals for the Donald J. Trump presidential library.

It’s not about Making America Literate Again (too late for that): there’s not a book in sight. I could not even see a reference to Trump’s own great contribution to world literature: The Art of the Deal. By contrast, the Ptolemies’ great library in Alexandria had perhaps 700,000 papyrus rolls. But that was there-and-then and POTUS 47 is nothing if not here-and-now.

One of several personal indulgences allowed by the apparatus of US government is the creation of an own-brand library. Brought into law by the 1955 Presidential Libraries Act, they perform as memorials. But Trump likes to make his own memorials: the same day that video was released, the innocent Palm Beach Airport was renamed President Donald J. Trump International Airport. Would it be worth anyone’s while to explain hubris to DJT?

Any great memorial should be both surprising and inevitable. The Donald J. Trump presidential library is neither, being woefully predictable in its crassness and feeble as a design. Le Corbusier said good design is intelligence........

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