Take heart Orange Caligula. Once they remove your name they can place it in a more appropriate spot. Atop the largest area dump or sewage depot would be absolutely perfect.- WaPo comment
It’s so pitiful that Trump is so insecure and needy that he needs his name and pictures plastered on buildings and currency. He is an infantile, petty, uninformed, impulsive , impatient, narcissistic wannabe dictator who fortunately is being reprimanded by the courts.- WaPo comment
Federal Judge Chris Cooper on Friday, at last put an end to the disgusting defiling of the Kennedy Center with Trump's name on it. He ordered the Jan. 6th insurrection leader's name be stripped within 2 weeks. He wrote in support of his decision:
“Congress gave the Kennedy Center its name and only Congress
can change it.”
As Joyce Beatty, an ex-officio member of the Kennedy Center
Board also noted:
“The Kennedy Center is an institution that belongs to the
American people, not to Donald Trump. He has desecrated this sacred memorial
for his own vanity.”
Indeed. Like a mad chimp in a zoo's ape house, Trump has been on a 16-month ego binge, hurling his orange face and feces at everything in D.C. Tearing down the East Wing of the People's House (not his), fouling every wall, every nook with his gold bling, plastering the front of the Justice Dept. bldg with his snarling mug and now also proclaiming he wants a Nazi-style 'Arc de Trump', as well as re-doing the WW II Memorial, after planning to re-paint the reflecting pool in front of the Lincoln Memorial.
Someone had to stop this insanity at some point and bring the orange fungus back to earth (if even partly).
The reasons for not mingling this traitor and convicted felon's name with JFK's are almost too obvious to recite. The most obvious: JFK at every turn supported and sustained democracy, he didn't try to destroy it. He even faced down Soviet Premier Nikita Khruschev in October, 1962 forcing him to back down from delivering further nuclear missiles to Cuba. That in contrast to Trump at every turn doing Putin's bidding, including now withdrawing U.S. troops from NATO countries and even letting Putin bomb them, e.g.
by Sarah K. Burris | June 2, 2026 - 5:17am | permalink
Russia is now bombing NATO countries, and it appears that President Donald Trump is asleep at the wheel.
Writing on Monday, MS NOW producer Steve Benen sounded the alarm about an incoming disaster visible on the horizon.
A Wall Street Journal report last week quoted several world leaders in Europe as saying that they fear Russian President Vladimir Putin is about to go beyond Ukraine and look at the countries he can go to war with next in an effort to grow the former Soviet Union back to its original borders.
"Russian drones have repeatedly crashed without causing casualties along the Danube River border between Romania and Ukraine since 2023. But the drone crash on Friday, on the roof of a residential compound in the port city, Galati, sharply escalated tensions between NATO and Moscow," The New York Times reported.
Adding insult to injury Trump attempted to start a slush fund to pay Jan. 6 traitors - for 'suffering' during their infernal attack on the Capitol- and after. When most received deserved prison sentences for their perfidy. That included smashing windows to gain entry, clobbering DC police with clubs and Trump flags, hurling feces at the walls once in, and threatening to hang then VP Mike Pence.
In fact, while Trump has sought to wreck every viable function of government, from the EPA and its regulation of climate risk, to firing tens of thousands of federal workers, to hollowing out the CDC and Dept. of Education, JFK did the opposite.
It was under JFK's administration that the Peace Corps (in which I served), e.g.
was founded, as well as USAID which Trump and his henchmen (like Elon Musk) took to the "woodchipper" last year. A move we may all come to regret as its resources to have checked the new Ebola spread exist no longer, e.g.
Inside the Ebola Epicenter, the Virus Rages With Little to Stop It - The New York Times
JFK, like my dad, served in the Pacific Theater in WW II and actually helped save a number of his men. Trump, by contrast, had his daddy get him excused from military service five times using "bone spurs". Further, he has mocked those service men who lost their lives in wars as "losers". See e.g.
Trump: Americans Who Died in War Are 'Losers ... - The Atlantic
According to the piece:
"When President Donald Trump canceled a visit to the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery near Paris in 2018, he blamed rain for the last-minute decision, saying that “the helicopter couldn’t fly” .....In a conversation with senior staff members on the morning of the scheduled visit, Trump said, “Why should I go to that cemetery? It’s filled with losers.” In a separate conversation on the same trip, Trump referred to the more than 1,800 marines who lost their lives at Belleau Wood as “suckers” for getting killed."
Unlike Trump, JFK read profusely, up to twenty complete newspapers a day. In addition,
he read books - whole books - not comics like
Trump, or National Enquirer gossip pieces. JFK could do this because he
read at a rate exceeding 1200 words per minute. This compares to Trump's 50
words per minute, which is why he must stick to tweets.
JFK held full news conferences for any major policy announcements, more than any other president where he took on
the press, media openly and ably. To get a hint of the extent of his verbal command see the following highlights from his press conferences:
"THANK YOU, MR. PRESIDENT" (1983)
He would never have posted on a social media cartoon board- even if one would have existed then. His vocabulary and wit never failed to astound the gathered press corps. Trump, when he does have the press in the Oval Office, brooks no serious questions or criticisms, so all one beholds is a retinue of docile pawns who simply validate and coddle the senile fool, and see who can kiss his ass the most. Much like his deplorable cabinet who often try to outdo each other in their sickening sycophancy.
JFK, unlike Trump, was the epitome of class and intellectual refinement. He appreciated intellectual and artistic endeavors and often used the White House as a venue to present special
musical or other events (poetry reading) . Check out, for reference, Jackie's 1962 tour of the White House, including its previous architectural changes.
From the archives: Jacqueline Kennedy's televised tour of the White House in 1962
Compare the setting and decor with the gold-defiled monstrosity Trump has created including tearing down the East Wing and paving over the outside WH garden. Trump, by contrast to JFK, is the embodiment of the Vulgarian and anti-intellectual Philistine He is only interested in using his Trump-branded crap to try to make more money, defying the Emoluments clause of the Constitution at every turn
Lastly, JFK exhibited a core of decency and would never brag about "pussy
grabbing", frolick with a pedophile pal, nor brand Mexicans as "rapists" , mock a disabled NYT reporter, or belittle an American soldier (John McCain) for being captured by the enemy.
JFK's impulse control was tested most severely during the October, 1962 Cuban
Missile Crisis when the Joint Chiefs, especially Gen. Curtis Lemay, implored
him to invade and bomb Cuba. A move that would have triggered a release
of at least 93 IRBMs and initiated a nuclear exchange.
Would Trump have been able to exert such control and opt for a peaceful
alternative? I doubt it. Trump barely has the impulse control of a rabid ape, e.g.
Trump LOOKS LIKE DEATH As White House SPIRALS & He LOSES TOTAL CONTROL!! | The Kyle Kulinski Show
Had Trump been in power for such a situation as in Oct. 1962, likely
none of us would be around to relate the story.
Thank whatever power there is or was that JFK was at the helm then and not
"The Donald".
