Sorta like Moses. “Let his name be stricken from every obelisk and pylon…”
Damn. It won’t be nearly as satisfying urinating on a hologram of Trump.
Well, only in the movie The Ten Commandments
This really DID happen with Akhenaton (AKA AMenhotepIV)
This culture shift away from traditional religion was reversed after his death. Akhenaten’s monuments were dismantled and hidden, his statues were destroyed, and his name excluded from lists of rulers compiled by later pharaohs.
Also happened with Tutankhamon and Nefertiti because of their association with Akhenaten.
And with Hatshepsut, the female pharaoh, because her son Thutmose III was pissed at her.
Toward the end of the reign of Thutmose III and into the reign of his son, an attempt was made to remove Hatshepsut from certain historical and pharaonic records. Her cartouches and images were chiselled off stone walls. Erasure methods ranged from full destruction of any instance of her name or image to replacement, inserting Thutmose I or II where Hatshepsut once stood. There were also instances of smoothing, patchwork jobs that covered Hatshepsut’s cartouche; examples of this can be seen on the walls of the Deir el-Bahari temple. Simpler methods also included covering, where new stone was added to fully cover reliefs or sacred stone work.
Also with the fictional Joseph Curwen in H.P. Lovecraft’s The Case of Charles Dexter Ward.
Or, come t think of it, Cornelius Vanderbilt Wood, who built Disneyland
Within a year after Disneyland opened, Wood and the Disneys parted ways. Some people who were there at the time said Walt Disney fired Wood. Others said Roy Disney cut the ties. Even others said Wood realized the relationship had soured and left the company.[1] One longtime employee, Bob Gurr, who was loyal to the Disneys, said that Wood was a con man.[2] Another employee, Van Arsdale France, believed that the relationship would not survive, because Wood and Walt Disney both were fiercely independent.
Soon after the split, Wood’s role in the creation of Disneyland was omitted from all company records and histories.[1] Over the years, the Walt Disney Company has honored various executives instrumental in the construction of Disneyland with window signs designating them as the proprietors of fictional businesses along Main Street, U.S.A., with one exception: “There is no window for C. V. Wood.”[3]
Nicknames people are giving Trump’s Qatari gift Air Force One, according to the Hufington Post:
Air Fraud One
Flying Bribery Palace
Qatar Force One
Bribe Force One
ConAir 2
$400M Blood Money Gift
Has the money actually gone to her yet?
But it doesn’t have all of the spyware in it the Qatar bribe jet does.
Is it done already? I thought it was going to take until the last few months of his administration to modify and take home like a souvenir.
I’m not a member of the Armed Forces, but I believe that you’re not allowed to protest in uniform or speak against the President and VP as this man did? A brave fellow to destroy his career speaking out against Trump. According to the article “Watson is being released and a possible case against him will not be filed.”
Don’t need no stinkin’ books. Books are full of all those… what do you call them?.. oh yeah, words. Big words. Don’t need 'em.
Two thoughts.
First, that’s hilarious. Whenever we see talking heads on TV news they almost always have shelves of books behind them. Most of the time they are recognizably real books with decipherable titles on the spines. Other times they look like props from a TV show or a movie. Kinda like this. It’s nice to know this is a real thing that happens. It makes me wonder how common it is?
Second, are we supposed to believe that Donald Trump knows how to read? Does he want us to think he reads? He already knows everything from the beginning of time to the ends of the universe. He is a possessor of infinite knowledge. (You know, aside from some things like how to spell simple four letter words like ‘dumb’.) Why would he ever have any reason to read anything?
I remember the time he tried to read the word “Yosemite” from a teleprompter. Stopped him in his tracks.
Holy fuck.
I used to do comics mocking this kind of thing, and this is why I stopped. You just can’t come up with something so absurd that people will get the joke. The reality is always, always, worse.
It’s the American way, just do a half-assed job!
And facts.
We hates 'em.
Don’t forget the bugs. Although I’m sure the crack team of DOGE addled security experts have vetted everything.
Well, to be fair (and I never get tired of bringing this up) …
“Last April, perhaps in a surge of Czech nationalism, Ivana Trump told her lawyer Michael Kennedy that from time to time her husband reads a book of Hitler’s collected speeches, My New Order, which he keeps in a cabinet by his bed. Kennedy now guards a copy of My New Order in a closet at his office, as if it were a grenade. Hitler’s speeches, from his earliest days up through the Phony War of 1939, reveal his extraordinary ability as a master propagandist.”
–Vanity Fair, 7/2015
I don’t want to defend Yam Tits, but that’s an AI Teddy Roosevelt that people are supposed to talk with and it’s supposed to respond. I’m guessing he was told beforehand at that display that he could “talk with Pres. Roosevelt,” so he did.
Yeah, but did he realize it wasn’t the actual real Teddy Roosevelt in the flesh? I wonder.
There’s already been far too much sanewashing of that dementia riddled asshole without adding our own.
There’s already a much simpler, much more likely answer - he was bullshitting as he almost always does. Only now that he’s slipped so far mentally, it’s barely coherent nonsense where even 5 years ago, if you squinted and wished really hard, there might have been some semblance of a rationale.