Some More News - Some More News: Trump's Desperate Attempts To Rewrite History

Episode Date: May 6, 2026

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Hey, it's Cody. Johnston, you know this, you clicked on the thing. Maybe try liking the video and subscribing once in a while. Thanks, babe. Here's some news. Donald Trump. You hear about this guy? Personally, I don't like him.

But maybe he'll turn it around. He's got time? A little bit. Not much. Very little time. I mean, we're past the decade mark of his political career. And, you know, boo! He's historically.

unpopular, not just in the world or America, but with his own dwindling base. Seems like Maga might be knock on wood somewhere. Going away. What a shame! Too bad Warmbo's dead because we'd really need him if the Democrats gain power again, but he is. Anyway, it turns out being constantly bad and stupid and wrong and unhinged isn't a great political strategy. Seems like that might be his legacy ultimately.

He's the reality TV show. host who was like, I bet I could run the country. Also, I'm racist. And a bunch of conservative lambs were like, yeah, screw it, put him in charge. And then he was like, wait, what all these buttons do? Also, I'm racist. And the country tanked repeatedly, killing many repeatedly. And now they're all like, oh, yeah, I guess I guess that was a bad idea when you think about it. Probably shouldn't have done that twice. And so it's hard to. imagine Trump not going down as the worst modern president, until the next worst modern president, Logan Paul!

Except, if Hollywood has taught me anything, it's that you should never underestimate the power of denial. That's how we got five different Fantastic Four Time Lines, despite none of them, and this is objectively true, being good. No, it wasn't good. Watch it again. Not that good. Watched like a studio executive, Trump's only hope is not through redemption or learning,

but from a good old-fashioned retcon. Not just of his presidency, but of the entire country and history and science and reality. Like he's Thanos using that stone. You know the one. G. When you word it like that actually, this sounds maybe kind of fun. Prepare for the MAGA retcon of America. Kind of fun. Kinda.

Like how the new Fantastic Four is kinda good if you watch it on a big screen, but it's actually pretty boring and forgettable. Certainly better than sloppool and nostalgia reen, but how hard was that to do? Okay, so now that I've made almost everybody mad and turned the comments into, I assume, a complete disaster, what do I mean by retcon?

Well, folks, that stands for retroactive continuity. That is the writing method of changing a past narrative in order to fit your current goals. In this case, the narrative is, reality. The goal is to make Trump and the GOP seem successful and popular and good and correct and rebuild America in the process. Often literally, there's that ballroom that no one else thought was necessary, especially since he literally demolished part of the White House, and is apparently using private money to fund some secret military bunker underneath. There's the giant

arch he wants to build that I'm genuinely surprised isn't in the shape of a T. But of course, the most obvious way they are retconning the country is by simply sticking Trump's name on just about everything they can, such as the Board of PC created at a building that has Trump's name on it, because he wanted his own special NATO. It's like his take on the Avengers. But it's more like the Great Lakes Avengers, except sadder and packed with fascist rich guys. So I guess they're the regular Avengers. Got them! I am really mad at Marvel today for some reason. Huh, got to be mad at something. And of course, Trump also stuck his face on the Department of Justice. Got his name on an entire class of battleships. He's chilling with George Washington on National Park passes.

He created Trump accounts for babies in grown-up banks and even put his signature on the actual money in those baby bank accounts. He's essentially just doing the things he did before getting into politics. You got to be mad at something and you got to get your name out there, you know? Keep the brand going. I guess. the very stupid scheme here is that if he sticks his name on enough things, people 50 years from now will be like, oh, I guess he was really, really important and beloved. It's the fake it till you make it version of a legacy, like if I spray painted my name on the Las Vegas sign and claimed to be the mayor. Because one assumes, or hopes, a lot of this stuff will just be reversed when he's no longer

president. This whole thing feels like such a make a wish that it would be, cute if it wasn't for all the war crimes and madness and his obnoxious as fuck vice president who we hate deeply. More like um make a fash-tash-tastic furor goose up. One particularly sad example of this is when Trump shoved his name into the Kennedy Center without consent. He's not a consent guy now calling it the Donald J. Trump and the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the performing arts or Trump Kennedy Center for short. It's named like a Ruth's Chris Steakhouse now. Is Chris a type of steak or a guy? Does Ruth own Chris or just the steakhouse? What happened to Chris? Dear God,

what happened to Chris? I am not eating this steak unless I know Chris is alive. But what makes the Kennedy Center thing so make a wish is that Trump is no joke really into theater. He was kind of a theater kid in fact. When Trump was 23 and wasn't spending his daddy's money through shady real estate practices, he was spending it as a co-producer of the Broadway show, Paris is out. Despite it flopping, he still wanted to be a part of the theater scene,

proposing a musical based on his own life in the 90s and then later announcing a musical based on The Apprentice in 2005. No new news on when that's coming out, unfortunately. During his 2020 re-election campaign, Trump would blast the song, Memory from Cats at campaign rallies until Andrew Lloyd Weber and presumably rally attendees ordered him to stop. It's also said that musical show tunes were used to calm the angry baby man whenever he was upset.

Like, literally, they had a White House aide assigned to this. To show up and calm Trump, the secret theater kid, like he was King Kong. He's a theater kid. Can't stress it enough. Might be the weirdest thing about him. And boy, considering this, you'd think he'd think he'd figure out makeup blending by now. So anyway, whatever.

It makes sense why Trump was so passionate about the Kennedy Center thing. And because he's Trump, he would of course force out and replace anyone appointed by Democrats on the once bipartisan board with, of course, himself as the chairman. It also explains why he actually took this self-appointment way more seriously than being president,

reportedly being very hands-on, and wanting to even host the Kennedy Center honors. Because he's the ratings guy, remember? He's a Hollywood phony. Always has been. We've talked about this before. Trump's entire thing was playing the part of a rich and successful guy on television and in movies,

despite not really being that in real life. His brand is tacky and at best ironic. And sure enough, this stink would rub off on the Trump Kennedy Center as well. First, a takeover of leadership, then a renaming as the Kennedy Center became the Donald J. Trump and John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. And now canceled performances. Amid all that, ratings for the televised Kennedy Center honors, hosted by the president himself, showed a big drop in viewership and overall ticket sales are reportedly way off.

Turns out that being a war criminal responsible for multiple national tragedies as well as massive cuts to things like public broadcasting, who's also racist and constantly talking about how evil the left is, does not go over well with the performing arts crowd. Go figure. So when Trump took over the art center, ticket sales fell faster than a bag of wet fat. In 2025, over 40% of all tickets remained unsold on the day of performance throughout all scheduled events, making it the center's worst fiscal year and worst attendance year since 2020. Classic Trump business model.

Hey, I wonder what happened in 2020. that hurt ticket sales. Oh right, that other thing. And much like COVID, the sickness of the Trump Kennedy Center could not be stopped, or rather could have been stopped, but wasn't because the people in charge were dumb and cruel. After the venue's name change, Chuck Redd canceled his annual Jazz Jam Christmas Eve concert. Instead of just finding another act, perhaps the George Lucas Jiz Jam, the new Trump appointed but now former venue president, Richard Grinnell threatened to sue Redd for $1 million due to a political stunt. In another situation, Grinnell responded to artist Yasmin Williams' emails regarding

booking practices with a ranting screed complaining about, can you guess, wokeness? In spite of this, William still decided to perform with the group of log cabin Republicans heckling her after she called out Grinnell for his unhinged behavior. It's almost like, I'm totally spitballing here. but it's almost like the far right has no culture of its own besides getting angry at other people's art. And so, in a way, this is exactly the kind of theater they would create, right? A place where they force artists to perform so that they can boo at them.

The very first culture war theater. So yeah, many big shows and artists ended up with drawing either out of protest or, again, low-ticket sales. Because why would anyone want to perform at a place where the management is toxic and the audience is small and angry? What are they? Stand-up comics? Cachow! Anyway, having successfully made a venue designed for absolutely nobody, Trump announced that the Trump-Cennedy Make a Wish Center was going to be closed for two years for renovations, which happens to be how much longer he will be president in theory. Side note, the Kennedy Center had a privately funded $250 million expansion in 2019.

But I guess they didn't do a good enough job that time. Not enough cheesy gold trim, probably. It's definitely not closed by our baby president due to spite and the embarrassment that no one wanted to indulge him and his own special theater space. And that there is the fun example, The most desperate and obvious and failed attempt by Trump to stamp his name on something that does not belong to him. After the break, we're going to talk about the much less fun examples, which should be fun. Not like in a wee way, I guess, but in an unhinged and desperate laughter, not unlike Sam Neal at the end of in the mouth of madness kind of way.

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probably because it was pathetic and funny, but we should probably talk about the other and far more fashy ways that our current president is attempting to rewrite America. It's kind of a gradient, you know? And dare I say, often it's because it's Trump that makes it so worrying. In a vacuum, there's nothing wrong

with renovating a wing of the White House or even proposing new monuments. More presidents should do that. Why was there no corn pop statue? But of course, Trump never asks for permission. And all of his ideas are centered around how he's the new God-King of America and always seem to make him rich in the process.

It's one thing when someone's like, hey, we should build a statue of Jimmy Carter. But a whole other bucket of crickets when a congressperson makes a bill to carve Trump's fucking face onto Mount Rushmore. something he is also publicly mused about. Sure, every president redecorates the White House, but most of them don't do it like this.

Trump opened a gallery of presidential portraits at the White House in September. Now he's added a plaque below every photo in the so-called Wall of Fame, the Walk of Fame. The White House says many were written by the president himself. Barack Obama is, for example, described as being divisive. and Ronald Reagan as a fan of a young Trump. If you can't find the photo of former President Joe Biden, that's because there isn't one. Biden has been replaced with a picture of an auto pen.

Hey, that's gross and weird and tacky. It's also especially alarming because it's clearly Trump attempting to rewrite history. It's like a child's attempt, though? Just stick a plaque up there. Worked before. It's like how his golf resorts had fake Time magazine covers with Trump on them.

or how he now ends his post with, thank you for your attention to this matter, as if that makes anything he says more presidential or official in some way. It's all to say that the next president could just, you know, take those down. But the fact that Trump did that in the first place says a lot about his goals.

This deluded idea that if he puts up these plaques, he can just change reality to make himself and his ideology popular and good, and make his opponents retroactively unpopular and bad. It's dictator shit. But like, dictator baby, the sequel to Boss Baby. Dictator Baby is the one movie you're allowed to say you're getting boss baby vibes from. And this all becomes way more concerning when it comes to other ways he's pushed this alternative history. Because not everything he's doing can be so easily reversed. So for example, last year Trump executive ordered the Department

of the interior to review federally connected art exhibits, monuments, and other installations to restore truth and sanity, which I'm sure he's using the correct definitions of. His basic argument was that the then-current view of American history was, you know, obviously, woke. Or rather, Trump said, quote, under this historical revision, our nation's unparalleled legacy of advancing liberty, individual rights, and human happiness is reconfirmed. constructed as inherently racist, sexist, oppressive, or otherwise irredeemably flawed. Rather than fostering unity and a deeper understanding of our shared past, the widespread effort to rewrite history deepens societal divides and fosters a sense of national shame,

disregarding the progress America has made and the ideals that continue to inspire millions around the globe. Well, he didn't say that, but Stephen Miller wrote it in an executive order and then Trump signed it, surely knowing what it said. Basically, it's that thing you always hear from conservatives about how having a negative view of American history makes people cynical and angry, especially at the honkies for some reason. The only problem is that this potentially negative view also happens to be the factually accurate one. It's quite literally that episode of the Simpsons where Lisa learns that the town founder was actually a pirate and then ultimately decides not to tell everyone because the lie of his legacy gives everyone hope or something. Now, if I were in that episode,

perhaps through some kind of cool Pleasantville technology, I'd argue to Lisa that it's important to be aware of our true history so that we can grow as a country today. National shame doesn't have to be exclusive from patriotism because it's far more important for a society to advance than preserve its little bedtime stories. In other words, Bart would, was right to cut off the head of that statue, it turns out. Now at this point in the conversation, Lisa would probably pepper spray me because she doesn't know me and I'm a much older person approaching her on the street and my skin isn't yellow and I don't have like outlines around everything.

A reverse Homer 3D, if you will. Or a normal cool world. It would be horrifying is my point and she would be right to pepper spray me. Anyway, Trump is doing that. the part where he frightens a child, although he's also done that, but the part where he's working to preserve the rosy and false version of our history in the name of unity or something. Or maybe it's another reason, because of course this effort also coincidentally benefits any group of people that perhaps has a historic record of oppression or being on the wrong side of history. And as we get

into the examples of what Trump and the GOP are trying to erase and rewrite, it becomes extremely clear that this isn't actually about preserving a beautiful lie, so much as continuing a current and very ugly one, specifically by pushing out every and all minorities from American history, literal historical whitewashing. After all, if your stated goal is to erase any injustice that would disparage America's past, you have to erase anyone who overcame that injustice, which conveniently continues the effort of that injustice. And in true lazy fashion, fashion, they were able to outsource this a bit. One way they carried out this purge was by instructing National Park Staff to post QR codes

asking visitors to flag information they deemed inappropriate. You know how like when you go to school and they ask you what you think the textbooks should say? And this very quickly devolved into complaints about, woke stuff. This just says woke over and over, such as plaque information that acknowledged slavery as being the primary cause of the Civil War. By the end of 2025, park officials began taking down exhibits, plaques, installations, and anything else that was deemed inappropriate. This included the freedom and slavery in the making of a new nation display at Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia.

It memorialized nine people enslaved by George Washington at his mansion, exploring the contradictions of the president's fight for liberty and freedom while owning hundreds of slaves himself. Meanwhile, Lowell Historical National Park had to stop showing a film explaining how women and children worked at textile factories for long hours and piss poor pay because it made America's so-called gilded age look bad. Can't make anything America did look bad, you see. At least 17 national parks had to remove or alter signs or exhibits, including those detailing the displacement of Native Americans at the Grand Teton and Grand Canyon National Parks. Not only have indigenous culture, history, and language been lost over displacement, time, and boarding school systems, a little bighorn national monument sign explaining all of that is now lost as well. I guess we can make a monument honoring the missing information, but they'll probably take that down too. Gone but not forgotten. A thing. Can't remember what? This executive order didn't just rewrite physical reminders of real history, but digital ones too.

Wiping out any references to transgender people on the Stonewall National Monument webpage, along with any references to the word queer. You can't make that Stonewall National Monument too gay, you know? They also yanked out the women's history page from the Arlington National Cemetery website because, you know, shut up. The fuck does the women's history page have to do with fostering a sense of national shame or disregarding the progress America has made? See how this very quickly and clearly had nothing to do with preserving a rosy view of America and simply became a spree of erasing minorities and women? After all, wouldn't the stories of enslaved people rising up or women, gaining civil rights actually be a positive story of American perseverance? Seems like this isn't about making people patriotic at all.

It's almost like whenever dipshit's complaining about PC culture or wokeness as being out of control, they're actually buttering people up to support efforts of oppression. And perhaps we should listen to the people who call that out early, because it's not just about erasing a few plaques. This directly affects what's happening today. Another thing this National Park purge targeted was, of course, any mention of climate change and pollution from fossil fuels. For example, Muir Woods National Monument had staff take down a plaque discussing how giant redwoods eased global warming due to their ability to store carbon dioxide. Because to acknowledge climate change is to acknowledge the causes of climate change, which is to acknowledge the fossil fuel companies that Trump is so cozy with.

So it's easier to just, bloop, delete all that. It's like if you stopped a robbery by closing your eyes. Problem solved. See how it all ripples outward? How much we're going to have to remember to restore? It's so frustrating and stupid and is infecting so many serious institutions that are supposed to be trusted. Like the Smithsonian, it was targeted by the administration

since it not only is funded through our federal tax dollars, but it also has a bunch of factual stuff about science and junk. Uh-oh! One exhibit in particular, the shape of power, stories of race, and American sculpture was called out specifically in Trump's executive order as an example of portraying American and Western values as inherently harmful and oppressive. How does it do that? Well, according to that EO, the exhibit dares to claim that race, is not a biological reality, but a social construct, and that societies including the United States

have used race to establish and maintain systems of power, privilege, and disenfranchisement, which are both. True statements. Sorry, whites. Scientists do say that race is a social construct, and the idea that different races are biologically distinct from one another was specifically pushed by European colonialists in order to do some slavery.

Whoops, are bad. Live and learn, or erase that information because you think it's harmful to American values and learn or don't learn. Which values exactly is the question? It's all really disgusting stuff, you know? It's clear that the Smithsonian was a particular white whale for the white whales that are the GOP.

And so Trump promptly began to shape it in his image. The shape of what? Err, he tried to fire and then successfully bullied out it's director of the National Portrait Gallery Kim Seijit, which I'm sure had nothing to do with Sejit refusing to display a portrait of Trump years ago because it didn't meet their standards. Probably too much glitter, honestly. And so, like many other agencies and institutions,

the Smithsonian began to self-censor, lest they be fired or defunded. This included taking down anything related to trans life, social justice, anti-racism, and even don't. involvement in the slave trade. They even had to remove the word unjust to describe the Japanese American internment camps during World War II as that could seem partisan.

You know, you gotta teach both sides of the internment camps. And just like with the Kennedy Center, this caused many artists to no longer want to showcase their art at the world-famous Smithsonian, which is the core problem here. Possibly the goal all of the world, along. See, you can restore an exhibit or plaque, but you can't restore the reputation of these institutions. I think many of these far-right freaks have it in their head that if they hijack the conduits of our culture, then they will magically be able to change what people absorb.

Like Elon Musk hijacking Twitter. Except, like Elon Musk hijacking Twitter, what actually happens is that people get turned off or disgusted and just move on. Then the thing they hijacked is simply left a husk of its former self, which sucks, because there's a very real chance that the stuff being purged won't ever fully find a new home, that places like the Kennedy Center and Smithsonian won't fully bounce back even after Trump is gone. And for the right, they probably know that's a possibility

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Weird dreams. Weird lucrative dreams. So before my nap, we were talking about all the ways the Trump administration was worming their ideology into our museums and monuments in a sweaty, attempts to change reality, which I reckon won't be easy for them. Not impossible, though. But when everyone hates you and you show up at the party, you either get kicked out or everyone leaves that party. That sucks for the party for sure, but it's the natural consequence of trying to push yourself on others. The GOP is unpopular and has bad ideas. Unfortunately,

I think they might know this a little bit and have planned accordingly. Because sure, You can't force people to like you or change their culture or accept a different reality. But you can propagandize to a bunch of young people until they do. If you look at how public schools were supposed to operate, they were almost designed to operate as the anti-Catholic indoctrination centers. Wow. What the fuck is he even saying? Also, hi, Ben. This isn't about Ben specifically. Although it is nice to see him. Hi, show up to band practice once. He hasn't been to one band practice. We're pretty good now. Stop by, we'll be nice to you. Ben is but one of many right-wingers

who claim that schools and higher education are secret leftist indoctrination centers. They've been saying it for a very long time, leading up to this moment with Trump. And Ben is kind of the perfect example of someone who grew up with what I'm calling, the restaurant placemat version of history. History and science and art are often very nuanced and complex.

Multiple things can be true, people can do good and evil things. But when you're young, you are often given a simpler explanation of these concepts because kids are a little stupid. In elementary school, you're told that Christopher Columbus founded America, and that's why we celebrate Columbus Day. Then you go to high school and college and find out that Columbus didn't discover America. And additionally, was a very bad person disliked even during his time.

And then, if you really start to study history, you know, you're going to be able to. you'll learn that Columbus Day itself was invented to quell conflict over mass lynchings of Italian immigrants in the country. And that's all very fascinating information, which ultimately makes a person realize that perhaps we don't need to celebrate Columbus Day after all. But if your education simply stopped at that elementary school understanding, you might be outraged at people saying that. Like this. When you look at Christopher Columbus, which is he closer to? George Washington or a Confederate monument? Is he closer to a person who did something truly kind of amazing and heroic,

but participated in the evils that were very common to his time? Or is he someone who is predominantly characterized by his evils? No. Ben, no. Factually, in reality, Christopher Columbus wasn't of his time. His time put him on trial for the things he did. See, Ben is either lying or just doesn't know that. Ben Shapiro, who dressed up as John Adams for Halloween when he was five, and whose favorite musical is 1776.

Ben is what they want everyone to be. Because the version of Christopher Columbus where he's a great man who is simply of his time and should be celebrated for bringing Western culture to America isn't just a nice, simple version of history, but one that excuses acts of colonialism, because that is more convenient for those doing the current acts of colonialism. The narrative that Western cultures like Captain America, swooping in to save people is a useful way to keep the public on your side during a war.

As is the idea that our founding fathers were infallible and that slavery wasn't so bad and that everything was immediately better after women and black people were granted civil rights. These placemate versions of history are how we can ensure that people don't question our institutions and traditions so that they can be used to justify certain ideologies, specifically, far-right ideology that often goes directly against science

and has frequently been on the wrong side of history. And so it's no wonder that the right wing is so mad at higher learning and accuses them of indoctrination. And it's especially no wonder that they are going after places like the Smithsonian in order to dumb down and revert our understanding of history and science. And it's especially times two why they love using AI slop to literally just rewrite facts and history, such as this video that was for real shared on the White House YouTube page. I am John Adams, blunt, stubborn, and the indispensable voice for independence in the Continental Congress. Facts do not care about our feelings.

Woof! Folks, woof! And might I add. woof! The irony alone, using an AI slop puppet of John Adams to pretend that he said a fucking Ben Shapiro quote about how facts don't care about your feelings. Woof! That is bleak. Dystopian even, and extremely funny if it wasn't coming from our president. That video, which should be satire, is in fact what Donald Trump wants the future of education to look like. See, again, this is why people have been

concerned at the right wing claiming that education is some plot to turn people against them, because the natural next step is for them to replace education with blatant propaganda. And so, yes, the Trump administration has turned to AI slop and Prager You to make new videos and exhibits. Prager You, if you don't know, is a far-right propaganda effort run by people with no background in education and disguised as a university that it isn't. Ben helped too. We even did a video about them and Candace Owens and how Kanye was being groomed to be a Nazi

eight years ago. That John Adams' abomination I showed you is just one of 40 other huge quotes, historical videos posted on the White House's website. As you can probably guess, the quotes used in the videos are not exactly accurate. In terms of the historical figures chosen for these videos, there is only one black person, which is more than I would have guessed, actually.

Specifically, it's Phyllis Wheatley, a lauded poet and writer who wrote anti-slavery poems and was criticized by many founding fathers at the time for it. Let's hear what she has to, uh, huge quotes, say. I was frail, sickly, and sold in Boston for a pittance. But God, in his mystery, gave me the gift of language. And with it, I'm... made a world. I was enslaved and educated in the household of prominent Boston commercialist John Wheatley. The Wheatley family taught me to read. Within 16 months, I devoured the Bible, Milton, Virgil, and Pope.

What was that word again? Oh yeah, woof! It's just so obvious and grotesque and evil. Yada, yada, the slavery part, and get right to how the whites taught her about God and words. I know the phrase is used a lot, but it's beyond satire. Anywho, Prager You has been successful in infiltrating several school systems, so that's probably bad, like extremely bad. But that is, of course, the point here, to create an entire generation of Ben Shapiro's. Because, as I said, despite their attempts, you can't force people to accept your alternate reality. Unless you raise them into it, plant those seeds now,

change the foundation of our education, defund higher learning, and anything that threatens this new slash old narrative and wait. And this is still not the worst way Trump is changing reality. After all, it's not enough to change how we teach facts. He needs to attack facts at the root. And so Trump and the GOP have slashed tons of scientific research under the guise of living up to a gold standard. It's hard to describe the real. effect this is going to cause because we might not ever even know what we lost. A lot of people, especially on the right, like to point to frivolous, wasteful science

funded by our bloated government as justification for things like Doge. Like this post talking about how we spent millions in taxpayer money on putting shrimp on a treadmill, except one snagg. We didn't do that. There weren't any million dollar shrimp treadmills, and that study has a purpose, because science like history is also nuanced and hard to fully understand from the outside looking in. Can it be wasteful at times? Sure. But that's kind of how science works. You try a bunch of things to see what happens. It's how, for example, a study on Helom Monster Venom led to the creation

of Ozempic. So if you start doing away with every bit of research that doesn't immediately promise innovation, well then you start to regress as a society. You missed things. You didn't even know you should have been looking for. When you reverse any study or progress regarding climate change because it's damaging to your politics, well, you not only leave yourself unprepared for that disaster, but you put yourself miles behind all the other countries that are preparing. When you let non-doctors like RFK Jr. be in charge of the CDC and reject actual medical science and put out sham reports instead, dismantle the progress we've already made, well, you go back decades, and they're doing it by design.

They're uncurious people with a very simplistic and outdated view of the world who are mad that other people don't have that view, and so are now going to force a generation to think like them. Trump and the GOP thought that the moment he became the president, America would just change to be this magical right-wing world where everyone would greet each other with a hearty arsler to you. Aha! Ah, and Kevin Sorbo would suddenly star in every Marvel film.

But it turns out that life and culture just kept going without them, forcing them to push this alternate reality onto everyone, to the point that they did their own Safe Space Super Bowl halftime show. Do you remember that? Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Turning Point USA, All-American Half-Time show. And this one's for you, Charlie. God, that's just so sad. They basically larp their own version of a world where Charlie Kirk's death was a national tragedy

and Kid Rock was the number one star in America. And while it was funny at first to see the Daily Wire dump millions on specialized right-wing entertainment to watch conservatives pretend to enjoy the musical poetry of bawit-a-baw-to-bang-diggy-diggie-dig-dig-to-bang-dig-dig-stead-the-bug. they won't be happy until they force this new reality on everyone. And while I don't think it's going to work, because Trump's popularity is dying faster than he is, they still did some serious damage along the way. Damage to our institutions, the arts, to our medical and science research, to our education, and of course, to our media.

In very little time, they have transformed not only social media, but the news media into a largely right-wing apparatus. CBS was just the beginning, as that upcoming Paramount merger will likely reshape CNN in Trump's image as well. Not that CNN is a beacon of truth, but soon no one will have any faith left in mainstream media, which I suspect was their goal all along. We've talked about it when we talked about Reagan and when we talked about it with Bush. The longest lasting damage of Trump's presidency will be something we won't feel right away. It's not only the slow inshittification of our government and economy and infrastructure and media, but the normalization of that inshittification for the younger generations.

The people who will be born into these changes, who will never know a world without AI slop in their schools, without right-wing propaganda embedded into the news and their social media feeds, a generation that doesn't get taught that internment camps are unjust because the current administration wants people to think, that if we do them now, it's fine. Very important to recognize that. They're rewriting and re-contextualizing past atrocities, so it's easier to do current ones. So it'll be a generation that will never know what an actual moderate view is. After all, this is partly how we got Trump

in the first place, right? Enough people were propagandized to for decades, and it led to an open racist and authoritarian running our country for hopefully just two terms. And Trump's actual legacy, his purpose for the GOP, was to push everyone just a little bit more into accepting a stupider and crueler world so that perhaps the next guy will finish the job. President Logan Paul. This is all to say that. If we get to the point where Trump is gone and we can start reversing this stuff, you know, prying his name off of signs and shit.

We can't simply stop at the superficial stuff. We need to do some deep cleaning. And it honestly won't be that hard to do if we do it. Because unlike Trump, we don't have to fight reality to do it. But we still have to do it. We have to really get in those nooks. Get your fingers in there. Two fingers, if you can.

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