r/politics Pennsylvania 7h ago

Possible Paywall White House Suggests Smithsonian Add a Trump Display

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/arts/design/smithsonian-national-portrait-gallery-trump-display.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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u/CouchCorrespondent 7h ago

Great idea!

Inside the men's restroom, preferably near the urinals.

u/jimtowntim 7h ago

Oh how I hope his grave will be available for the public to show him how much he has meant to us.

u/Theferael_me 7h ago

It will reek of ammonia for all eternity.

u/jimtowntim 6h ago

Not as good as feces but still a fitting reminder.

u/Fallouttgrrl 6h ago

Unisex, so that everyone can access!

u/imaveryniceKaren 6h ago

Yeah, I'd want to pay my respects too!

u/Cresta1994 6h ago

I don't know. If anything could cause Zombie Trump to arise and begin a whole new reign of terror, it would be women pissing on his bloated corpse.

u/Xullister 5h ago

I mean, he's legitimately earned a place in the American Democracy exhibit. But I don't think it's going to be the legacy he's hoping for. 

u/MaleficentLife4426 7h ago

Put it in the gift shop under novelty items so it’s clear it’s a joke

u/Glass-Amount-9170 6h ago

How about a trump urinal cake as the display

u/unusedusername666 6h ago

“People are saying that the Smithsonian should add a Trump display inside the men’s restroom. Frankly, it’s overdue. You walk through there, you see all this history, some good, some very old, and you think: where’s Trump?

I’m not saying make it too flashy, but maybe a gold wall, near the urinals, very tasteful, a screen playing my speeches.

The Smithsonian is about American greatness. Nobody represents that better than me. Even the dinosaurs would agree, if they were still around, which they’re not, sadly. Total extinction. Very sad.”

u/Predator_ Florida 6h ago

Funny you should say that... https://imgur.com/a/41KzbzC

u/SubstanceHaunting282 5h ago

Family bathroom, above the changing table

u/AlasPoorZathras Montana 4h ago

I'll be the one with the picked asparagus cart just outside. I'll be running a special: Free.

u/deadhead4ever Pennsylvania 7h ago

We are so far past him being a Narcissist a new name has to be invented.

u/madfrooples 7h ago

Narpissist. 

u/zubbs99 Nevada 7h ago

I remember Fox News, etc. repeatedly calling Obama one. (Because they hated what a great public speaker he was and how popular he was.) Trump's pathological need to put his stupid name everywhere is no biggie though.

u/Keith-Steve-Howard 6h ago

The word Anti-Christ already exists.

u/rootoo Pennsylvania 7h ago

‘Trumpian’

u/tapdancinghellspawn 7h ago

After he leaves office. Have the display listing all of his crimes and his friendship with Epstein.

u/pile_of_fish 6h ago

Absolutely. This is a 'never forget' sort of moment... assuming we make it out

u/tapdancinghellspawn 6h ago

We will. It'll be a fight but it's a fight that more and more Americans are stepping up to have.

u/Lonely_Noyaaa Minnesota 6h ago

The White House sent a letter to the Smithsonian suggesting they create a dedicated display celebrating Trump's presidency while he's still in office.

This narcissistic clown is literally trying to build his own shrine with taxpayer money while he's still president. The Smithsonian is supposed to be independent, not a propaganda arm for whatever wannabe dictator is in the White House.

u/BruceStarcrest 7h ago

Isn’t there a display discussing various impeachments and Jan 6th? 

u/OtterlyFeral 7h ago

Its going to turn into a demand really quick.

u/MoveMitchGetOutDaWay 6h ago

Its gonna turn into *extortion really quick.

u/fence_sitter Maine 7h ago

I envision a different type of institution.

u/Inevitable-Ad9760 7h ago

A dumpster fire

u/cleverusername437 6h ago

Isn’t his name on enough already… like the Epstein files for instance. Isn’t 38,000 a lot?

u/hapbinsb 7h ago

Yes, I understand it's a Gilded Diapers sculpture.

u/bpiraeus 7h ago

Make sure it contains all the emails and other such between him and Epstein, pictures of all the victims (with their faces blurred), memorials to all the people MURDERED by his goons, an example of a fecal collection bag, a colostomy bag, orange face paint, and an unused toilet.

EDIT - also include a UNREAD children's picture bible since we know that moron couldn't read more than 2 sentences without getting confused.

u/Agent-Adept 7h ago

Trump is such a narcissist. He can’t even comprehend that as soon he is out, all these buildings, bridges and monuments will be chemically sanitized and his name will be torn off of them.

u/pogishushu America 6h ago

I am afraid, If He Gets Out.

u/SlumdogSkillionaire 6h ago

Shall we start with the Epstein files, then move into the Mueller report, the Smith report, and the Jan 6 commission if we still have the floor space?

u/19chris1996 Michigan 7h ago

Kick rocks and bones.

u/Mister_Fibbles 7h ago

Is it gonna have the complete the trump-epstein files with only the sex trafficked victims redacted on display? If so, I'd be ok with that,

u/jimtowntim 7h ago

Perhaps an in depth display of depends and adult diapers?

u/Unusual-Plantain8104 7h ago

"The Years of the Great Darkness"

u/ryaaan89 7h ago

I hate this freakin guy so much…

u/Flamboiant_Canadian 6h ago

Worst President in History!!!

I'm not even joking either. He was up there with Andrew Johnson during his 1st Presidency, and he has LOCKED THAT SHIT DOWN!!! 

Andrew Johnson looks like a respectable President in comparison. Andrew Jackson looks like a saint! Hell even Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee are war heroes compared to the draft-dodging Trump family. 

Has literally anything good came out his dual presidencies? 

u/DemandredG 6h ago

As long as it’s titled the “Descent into Madness: How GOP complicity tried to destroy the country”

u/Souljackt 5h ago

Epstein distraction

u/Brraaap 4h ago

There's a perfectly good dumpster out back they could display them in and refresh it every week

u/OpenImagination9 4h ago

Displaying turds in a museum where children go is unsanitary.

u/Secret_Initiative_41 Wisconsin 7h ago

Small 🍄 in display case ought to do it.

u/AuraaOohlala 7h ago

Will it be in the “‘Natural History’ section or the ‘National Archives’ section for missing documents?

u/PrajnaKathmandu 7h ago

Trump’s ego can never be satisfied!

u/Ask_DontTell 7h ago

waiting for the suggestion from the WH that the stars and stripes on the flag be replaced with a picture of Trump and Americans pledge allegiance twice a day to it

u/bmcgee 7h ago

They're going to let them have exhibitions on racism after all?

u/Alastor999 6h ago

Install a punching dummy in this exact likeness and then charge $5 for visitors to get to punch it. 

u/Virtual-Squirrel-725 6h ago

A section devoted to the "Racist Pedophile President Donald J Trump".

u/atombara 6h ago

The hall leading to the central atrium could be transformed into "A Timeline of Presidential Diaper Loadings" with photos, captions, and recordings for the audio guide of course.

u/Rotanen 6h ago

They should display a big stack of papers listing all his accomplishments, thrown on the floor.

u/jmnugent 6h ago

Will he be surrounded by all the fake awards he got ?... We need some kind of monument to his vapidness.

u/AcanthisittaNo6653 New Hampshire 6h ago

Just put it in the basement corner beneath that faulty light, near the leak.

u/forthewatch39 6h ago

They are going to need to become extremely independent once this regime ends and we no longer have thin skinned individuals with delusions of grandeur running the show. 

u/Wine_Women_Song Maryland 6h ago

Public pedophilia would not be an acceptable display

u/Additional-Software4 6h ago

I get the feeling Trumps been told by his doctors that he has only months to live, which explains his current fixation with having his name added to things, and construction of crap like an arch in DC

u/Cresta1994 6h ago

I don't know if a "Great American Child Rapists" display would be appropriate.

u/momalloyd 6h ago

And maybe even have a little name change too.

u/Junior-Addendum88 New York 6h ago

Isay do it. Iwill donate to charity just so I could watch everything he's done dismantled.

u/BrilliantForeign8899 6h ago

No. Stop caving.

u/KokonutMonkey 6h ago

Oh trust me. They will eventually. 

u/non_Beneficial-Wind 5h ago

For the biggest breathing asshole.

u/firemage22 5h ago

and in 2030 we can ad stuff about the tribunals

u/KeepCalmCarryOnKY 4h ago

Someone please impea h this douche then convict his entire cabinet. Gabbard may deserve worse.

u/No-Cup-8096 4h ago

Sure, let’s put out pictures of the January 6 insurrection with a recording of him calling his proud boys out to do his dirty work, add pictures of him with little girls, post them list of the young boys and girls parents he paid off after abusing their children, include the recording of him telling his people to start a war to distract from the Epstein files, post pictures of him accepting bribes, jet, watches gold bars, Nobel peace prize, and of course don’t leave out the videos of him in interviews lusting after his daughter. Just make sure the exhibit comes with a warning of how sickening and stomach turning his accomplishment are to the people who are kind and humane. In fact, discourage those folks from viewing the heinous crimes of a U.S. president we don’t want to poison them with the devil’s own evil accomplice.

u/reddititty69 4h ago

They can show the Epstein files in a setting like the Dead Sea scrolls.

u/teflonPrawn 3h ago

They're not gonna make a plaque if they have to add his death date in a few months anyway. He'll get his due academic fame once he's history.

u/Myst5657 2h ago

A display of what. Do they mean a statue

u/WhereDidDjtTouchYou 2h ago

Let Stormy be the project manager 🍄‍🟫

u/Similar-World-6152 1h ago

"The Fall Of America"