Posted on 01/27/2021 6:42:08 AM PST by SeekAndFind
There are two sides to the question of where the eventual Trump presidential library will be built. Where would Donald Trump want it to go? And where would it be allowed to be built?
The two places Trump has chosen to live, New York City and Palm Beach, Florida, are very unlikely to permit construction of what would amount to a monument and pilgrimage site honoring the 45th President of the United States. Partly, that would be based on partisan differences and, face it, the irrational hatred we call Trump Derangement Syndrome. But in the case of Palm Beach, there is also an aversion to crowds, especially what might be perceived as crowds of the hoi polloi.
(I vividly remember the fight over the Kennedy family’s plan to build the JFK Library adjacent to Harvard Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Despite his status as a martyred hero in the eyes of locals, the fear of hordes of tourists led to rejection of the plan, and the site – a rail yard for the subway that became redundant when an extension of the line was built – eventually housed Harvard’s new Kennedy School of Government. The JFK Library went to a somewhat desolate point of land sticking into the harbor.)
It is notable that the parts of the country where Trump is most popular, the South, the industrial Midwest, and the non-coastal West, have the least connection to his places of residence.
A friend suggested that Mt. Rushmore might be appropriate, as it is the inspiring site that Trump used for what may be regarded as his best speech. It is already set up to handle crowds of tourists, and carries with it a sense of pilgrimage.
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Eventually it should go in a spot near Mount Rushmore.
No doubt about that as the opposition will be clamoring to get the list of donors and go after them. I did look up the issue of funding and I was partially correct. Besides private donations, state and local funding can be used to build the library (future revenue based on tourism and such) and the library is then turned over to the federal government (National Archives and Record Administration) for future maintenance of the physical property as well as making the different types of media (i.e. documents, audio, film, etc...) available to the public.
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46 presidents including Biden and 14 have presidential libraries.
My first thought!
Build it here Donald. ALABAMA loves you!!!!
He should convert one of his own golf courses. That’s property he already owns.
Obama still doesn’t have one.
Put it right here in California... I’d love to see the Libs heads explode....
IMHO it should be located at our Southern Border, made to look exactly like our new Trump Wall border system and it should be hundreds of miles long.
Fulton County, Georgia or Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Screw ‘em.
I like it!
It would need to be about fifteen hundred miles long to house and display all of the Trump administration’s accomplishments and successes.
Oh, and it can double as a deterrent for illegal border crossings.
Mt. Rushmore is a National Memorial. Good luck getting Congress to agree to sell land for a Trump Presidential Library.
Built in visitor base with one of the best airports in the country, and friendly state gummint.
Climate ain't too bad and it's far enough inland that there is little danger from the hurricane season.
Presidential libraries are built through private donations. Once done, an endowment equal to the cost of operating the library for the first year or two has to be signed over to the government. Trump has talked about raising $2 billion for his library but I don't see that happening. It's a ridiculously high figure.
Florida’s a big state with lots of places honored to have Trump’s library.
St. Petersburg’s becoming a ‘city of museums’... Everything from the Salvador Dali Museum to the Chihuly Collection and more:
Best 10 Museums in Saint Petersburg, FL
https://www.yelp.com/search?cflt=museums&find_loc=Saint+Petersburg%2C+FL
And yeah, it could be put in after Trump’s second term... he’d probably still beat Obama to the finish ...
Next to the white house for all to see how saving freedom worked.
Ha! Maybe within the Trump Hotel DC.
THAT would make heads explode!
I agree it will most likely be built in Florida. I think Miami on part of his Doral property. People can come to visit and stay the weekend at Doral. Would be great for his business.
If he gets a second term things could change. If he doesn’t, I would expect his library will be finished before Obama’s.
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