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There is a particular kind of desperation that reveals itself in marble and bronze. You see it in the final years of dictators and the final months of dying kings — a frantic sculpting of legacy, a panicked commissioning of statues, a sudden urgency to rename the streets before anyone gets the chance to reconsider. It is the behavior of men who know, in whatever reptilian corner of consciousness still functions, that history is coming for them and they had better get their face carved into something load-bearing before it does.

This is what we are watching right now in the United States Congress. Not governance. Not policy. Not even the pretense of public service. What we are watching is a political party performing the taxidermy of a living man.

The Inventory of Sycophancy
Behold the legislative agenda of the world’s most powerful deliberative body, circa 2026. Our new friend Scott MacFarlane broke the news this week - and of course MSM ignored it.

Let’s recap. Trump wants to:

Carve his face into Mount Rushmore.
Introduced by Rep. Anna Paulina Luna of Florida, who reportedly keeps two scale models of the proposed carving in her congressional office like a preteen with a boy-band poster. The National Park Service has noted, with the gentle patience of adults addressing a tantrum, that there is no suitable uncarved rock remaining on the mountain. Luna has treated this as a suggestion.

Replace Benjamin Franklin on the $100 bill.
The Golden Age Act of 2025, courtesy of Rep. Brandon Gill of Texas, would evict a founding father, inventor of bifocals and the lightning rod, a man who negotiated the treaty that ended the Revolutionary War, and install in his place a man who lost money running a casino. Gill called it “a small way to honour all he will accomplish these next four years.” The tense is important. Future honour for unspecified future accomplishment. Pre-paid flattery.

Mint an entirely new $250 bill.
Rep. Joe Wilson of South Carolina — yes, the “you lie” guy — reportedly carries a pamphlet around the Capitol like a door-to-door proselytizer, asking colleagues to co-sponsor legislation creating a denomination the American economy has never asked for and does not need, solely to provide additional currency real estate for the presidential face.

Make his birthday a federal holiday.
Rep. Claudia Tenney of New York has proposed merging Flag Day with Trump’s birthday, because they happen to fall on the same date and because subtlety is dead. Tenney has compared this to the federal holiday honouring George Washington, apparently without a flicker of self-awareness.

Fund NIH research into “Trump Derangement Syndrome.”
Rep. Warren Davidson of Ohio would like the National Institutes of Health — the people who are supposed to be curing pancreatic cancer — to instead study a condition that appears in no medical textbook, no diagnostic manual, and no peer-reviewed journal, but which does appear frequently in tweets.

Award him the Congressional Gold Medal.
Because two impeachments and thirty-four felony convictions apparently qualify.

Rename the Kennedy Center. The Donald Trump Center for the Performing Arts,
if Rep. Mike Simpson of Idaho has his way. Simpson slipped this amendment into a spending bill so quietly the White House itself didn’t know it was coming. This is how monuments get built now — not with trumpets but with riders.

Rename Dulles International Airport.
Because landing at an airport named after a Cold War secretary of state is apparently less patriotic than landing at one named after a man who tried to buy Greenland.

Rename the Washington Metro “WMAGA.”
Rep. Greg Steube of Florida proposed renaming the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority the Washington Metropolitan Authority for Greater Access — an acronym so tortured it could file a war-crimes complaint — and threatened to withhold $150 million in federal grants if the city declined to play along. Extortion as tribute.

Pass a resolution declaring him Nobel-worthy.
A non-binding congressional opinion on a prize awarded by a committee in Oslo that has, so far, declined to solicit Congress’s input.

Create a State Department “Donald J. Trump Peace Prize.”
Because if the Norwegians won’t give him one, we’ll just manufacture our own. Peace as a branded consumer good.

Officially honor his “efforts to annex Greenland.”
A sovereign territory belonging to a NATO ally, which he has threatened to seize by economic or military coercion, and which this resolution proposes to commemorate as statesmanship rather than identify as the imperial belch it plainly is.

Erase the 2019 impeachment.

Erase the 2021 impeachment.

The last two deserve their own moment. The constitutional mechanism the founders specifically designed to check presidential abuse was invoked against this President twice. The response from his party is not to argue the merits, not to defend the conduct, not to relitigate the facts, but to propose — with a straight face, on the floor of the House — that the record itself be scrubbed. Memory-holing as legislation. Soviet-grade historical revisionism with an American flag pin on the lapel.

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Carve his face into Mount Rushmore.

I remember people floating that idea, when Saint Reagan was POTUS.

...that there is no suitable uncarved rock remaining on the mountain.

That was pointed out in the 80s too. Here's a thought, erase one of the other Presidents. Let's erase Washington, because his spot is the most prominent. After all, Trump is God. His Bible bangers say so.

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...that there is no suitable uncarved rock remaining on the mountain.

There is lots of suitable uncarved rock. Start about 5000 ft down--and keep going.

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The "Grand" Old Party is utterly corrupt and morally bankrupt.

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