Donald Trump has insisted Iran must “open up the Strait of Trump” and complained about not winning the Nobel Peace Prize in a meandering speech at the Future Investment Initiative Institute summit in Miami, Florida.

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    4 hours ago

    Trump is desperate to get his name on everything before he dies. He’s always been desperate to get his name on things, and now that he’s getting older and more infirm, he positively reeks of desperation.

    But I suspect that the future historians won’t be kind to him and eventually we’ll get his name off of everything and his only real legacy will be in every list of history’s worst American Presidents.

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      18 minutes ago

      considering who supplies the majority of US textbooks…unlikely to be nearly as negative as it should be

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      I read another commenter in another thread recently call it Damnatio Memoriae, a process often revealed in archaeology and / or ancient history whereby successors or the populace try to scrub a ruler from history.

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      “only real legacy will be in every list of history’s worst American President” and in in the Epstein Files and as a convicted felon and as a sexual predator and as a child rapist and …