The single most self-absorbed man on Earth is proving how he got that moniker and proving why he’s the most loathsome.

At a point in time in his presidency when he should be worried about A) The fact that COVID deaths might well reach 400,000 by the time he’s out of office and our hospital care system is about to splinter into pieces, B) the vaccine to suppress that epidemic is sitting in warehouses waiting for a serious logistics plan to get the hell out the door and into people’s arms isn’t being addressed, with the suspicion that Trump wants a giant clusterfck to hand to Biden, and C) that logistics plan will have to go around the fact that Russia has infiltrated our computers and can alter them at will, as well as all our top corporate structure.

That’s plenty to occupy a president’s last month in office, the last point for him to save some of his legacy, fighting to the very end on something that matters.

Instead, true to form and just what one would expect of a man who sought from day one to make everything about him and a man who never built or associated himself with anything to which he didn’t plaster his name is worried about the least important shit imaginable at this point. From the Independent:

“Trump’s focus on airport namings suggests that his mind has begun to wander towards the ceremonial elements that accompany life after the presidency,” the Daily Beast report claims. “It also shows that his infatuation with having pieces of infrastructure emblazoned with his name hasn’t faded at all with his time occupying the single most powerful position in the world.”

There are exactly three major airports that we can name off the top of our head named after presidents, JFK, Reagan National, and Bush Intercontinental. Those three men changed the world. Bush oversaw the end of communism, was a WWII hero, and was head of the CIA as well as Vice President, plus he was from Houston. The others speak for themselves.

Not every president is entitled to an airport for the love of god. Though Obama will get one soon enough.

The report also suggests Mr Trump would be thrilled to have his name attached to something a little less stationary, but still an airport of sorts – his aides have apparently heard him wondering aloud about what kind of aircraft carrier he would commission to name after himself.  

Trump also has some requirements. It has to be a National or International Airport, don’t some teeny airport like from the show Wings. And he wants “to ensure that whichever airport bears his name did not have a previously bad reputation and was not in disrepair.”

We don’t know a lot about aircraft carriers but it seems like they’re generally saved for presidents that have passed away and – again – have gained a modicum of respect. There is no U.S.S. Clinton of which we’re aware. Then again, we don’t go around counting the names of aircraft carriers, and they certainly aren’t named while a man is in office, nor right out of office.

Airports and aircraft carriers are generally not named after people who watched over several hundred thousand citizens dying needlessly. There is likely a link between Trump worrying about the least important stuff, while the most important stuff goes on around him, unaddressed. Fitting.

Perhaps Trump should have a superfund site named after him. That would actually make all the sense in the world, something that will take a shitload of money and intricate planning to clean up and make habitable.

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Peace, Y’all
Jason
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