Demolishing history

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Nobody’s laughing

It’s become a challenge to find the funny anymore. Poignancy has supplanted satire as my reaction to Trump’s figurative and literal bulldozing of Americana.

My original idea was to have the entire tour group focused on the docent and the watercolor by George Munger called “The President’s House.” It wasn’t always called The White House.

There is a popular misconception that the White House was first painted white to cover the scorch marks left by British soldiers who burned the house on August 24, 1814. In fact, the White House first received a lime-based whitewash in 1798 to protect its sandstone exterior from moisture and cracking during winter freezes. The term “White House” was occasionally used in newspapers and periodicals throughout the nineteenth century, but most journalists, citizens, and visitors referred to it as either the “President’s House” or the “Executive Mansion.”

Source: WhiteHouseHistory.org

I thought it was important to show one of the tourists taking note of the approaching excavator, which is a nice neutral term for equipment that can demolish buildings. It’s not the equipment’s fault nor the operator's that the entire East Wing was leveled. It’s the fault of a gauche, overly massive ego gone unchecked.

Those who say, ”He’s just doing what he said was elected to do,” are full of the excrement Trump let loose in his fantasy fighter pilot video.

He’s a corrupt thief, and you know it.