Crimes Against Design

Donald Trump isn't just ruining lives. He's ruining fashion.


Reconcile yourself with the idea of the Trump Presidential Library.

In the next four to eight years, a temple of Donald Trump’s contributions to America while in office will be built. The last one hundred years has seen every president receive one of these installations (even Nixon), which usually serve as a cross between a research archive, a charity headquarters, and a time capsule.

There’s no doubt that this presidency will be studied tweet-by-tweet by generations of Adderall-chomping poli-sci undergrads, and we already know how Trump’s charitable endeavors shake out. The time capsule portion is the one that seems the most hard to imagine at this point. What relics from the Trump era will populate the dioramas and displays of the Trump Library, his equivalent of Jackie Kennedy’s pillbox hats or Bill Clinton’s saxophone?

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