The Trump Library Is Going Full-On Supervillain

Eight million people showed up at last weekend’s No Kings protests. Donald Trump’s response? Release footage of a skyscraper bearing his name, a golden statue of himself, and a throne room with paid parking — and call it a “presidential library.”

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Donald Trump’s presidential library will contain a golden statue, a golden escalator, some jets, and replicas of places he likes. (Eli Hiller / AFP via Getty Images)


There is a certain kind of man who, upon being told that people are marching in the streets with signs reading “No Kings,” responds by announcing plans to build a glittering glass skyscraper-palace, complete with golden idols of himself. Civilization may yet survive, but irony clearly has not.

That man is, of course, President Donald Trump, who rolled out AI-generated renderings for his future presidential library by way of Truth Social. The library, if that word retains any meaning, will be a roughly fifty-story tower rising over downtown Miami, specifically over a nearly three-acre plot of land that Miami Dade College gifted to the Trump Foundation, in a shady backroom deal, valued at more than $67 million.

It’s essentially another Trump Tower that’s been given a MAGA makeover, with the word TRUMP glowing near the top and a red-white-and-blue spire jabbing at the clouds (though, no doubt a red baseball cap on top was considered). The ninety-second AI video rendering includes a replica Oval Office in its current garish splendor, a posh ballroom, rooftop gardens, and the luxury jet gifted by Qatar. There is also, naturally, a golden escalator deliberately evoking the one Trump descended at Trump Tower, New York, in 2015 to announce his first presidential campaign.

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