Don’t forget the upside-down bible.
The motel made him give that back.
His beautiful love letters from Kim Jong-Un.
I don’t believe he has to set one up, but the presidential library is typically a way of honoring the person, so it would be odd for such a narcissist not to have one. And I think it normally starts after one leaves office, so there’s still time. I don’t think the Obama Library is completed, so it’s normal that it takes a while.
But, yes, it’s expensive. Wikipedia says construction of the Obama library will cost $300 million and it will need an endowment of $1.5 billion. So major fundraising is necessary.
Bilingual exhibit plaques in English and Russian.
TVs playing recordings from Fox News, which is where Trump seems to have gotten all his information.
Along with the blank books of health care plans, the blank books of the parts of his supposed books he wrote himself. Or probably even read.
It’s also where the president’s papers are stored. Robert Caro when he works on his LBJ volumes does his research at the LBJ library but even he has to wait for documents to be declassified and released finally from a vault.
Yes, of course it’s where the papers are stored; that’s in large part why it’s called a library.
The July, 1998 issue of Playboy magazine, in which Karen McDougal was Playmate of the Year.
SFW link to cover, but spoilered just to be safe:
Only 8Gb? Gonna need a bigger drive.
His papers, on the other hand, would fit easily in a single manila folder.
Mostly golfing memorabilia. Including cards “marked up” [cough] by him and showing the times he shot an 18 round.
Melania Trump. No, not a wax figure, the actual bot.
To be fair, the big book they gave to Lesley Stahl wasn’t all blank. It wasn’t a health-care plan, either, but it wasn’t all blank (past the frontispiece pages). It was a bound set of all the useless Executive Orders on healthcare that Trump has signed, none of which was any kind of comprehensive plan.
Will the architects and construction firms demand payment upfront?
The Presidential Records Act requires presidents to preserve essentially every document or scrap of paper they ever lay their eyes or fingers on throughout their presidency, to be preserved in the custody of the National Archives. (I think this rule was something that came as a result of Watergate.)
Trump has notoriously ignored this, preferring to shred just about everything he touches. I’ve read that the National Archives has an agent whose job is to empty Trump’s wastebaskets and collect all the shreds, which a team of archivists spend their time trying to put back together. (Yes, I really read that somewhere once. I wonder how true that is?)
So the library should preserve all those bags of shreds, catalogued by date and which office they were collected from. Every Saturday a bag of shreds will be poured out on the floor in a room and the general public (for an admission fee) will be invited in to try putting shreds together to reconstruct original documents.
The Hunter Biden laptop? So that he can be vindicated by history.
Fellow inmates?
Pay toilets.
A mock-up of a voting booth that doubles as a tanning booth.
And a cafeteria that serves only the finest well done steak and ketchup.
Don’t forget Diet Coke, hamberders, and covfefe.