I had to find the video to check that he really said this. Those were the words, in that order. I suspect if anyone got around to asking about it, you get a salad of nonsense back ... so I will take this sentence at face value.

"I don't believe in building libraries or museums" -Trump

Got it.

@futurebird This seems vaguely Warholian. And, while I absolutely despise Trump, I think it’s conceptually perfect. Almost beautiful (in a crass way). The aesthetics, of course, are fascist horrible.

Also a library would imply books.

@futurebird My understanding is: Presidential libraries are chiefly funded by non-profit organizations. Those organizations do fund-raising and accept donations. Which seems like a pretty good channel for bribes and grift.

Your "Presidential Library Foundation" can accept donations, then spend a large fraction of those donations on "consulting," on paying board members who are all part of the family, on contractors who will do you other favors, etc.

If the project is mismanaged hard enough, it will fail. Like so many of his other ventures, it will fail in a way that makes him feel like he's putting one over on others, and in a way that will put money in his pocket.

@futurebird Oh yeah, looking at the image on top I remember that scene in [literally every single dystopian nightmare movie with a fascist dictator that destroyed his own people.]

I guess the difference is that, unlike the movies, they make the scene brightly lit and that makes it all ok instead.