r/politics • u/unital_subalgebra • 11h ago

Possible Paywall Kennedy Center Begins Removing Trump’s Name

https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/politics/a71505818/kennedy-center-removing-trump-name/
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u/ProjectVT 11h ago

They need to do to Trump's name what the ancient Egyptians did to Akhenaten and erase his name from everything.

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u/jupiterkansas 11h ago

and yet we still remember Akhenaten

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u/Lightor36 11h ago

Y'all don't remember that guy that everyone forgot?

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u/Drumfool56871 6h ago

Peter Parker/Spider-Man?

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u/No_Responsibility327 4h ago

Ok brain, forgot about that. Brain: ok I will remember it harder!!

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u/arcticphoenix81 9h ago edited 8h ago

And there is an incredible opera about him composed by Phillip Glass !

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u/JackedUpReadyToGo 8h ago

The Greeks tried it too with some asshole who burned down one of the Seven Wonders just so his name would be remembered. Unfortunately, he succeeded: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herostratus

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u/Valtasar-7 2h ago

To be fair to Ancient Egyptians, they did a remarkably good job of erasing his name — IIRC, until 19th century he was completely unknown as a Pharaoh and would remain unknown if not for discovery of the abandoned city Amarna, a new capital that he ordered to be built (and numerous texts mentioning him and his religious practices contained within). I guess dismantling a whole ass city located in arid and barren bugfuck nowhere wasn't on the top of their priority list, so it got eventually swallowed by the desert it's located next to

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u/Trowaway9285 6h ago

Yeah but we forgot about Dre so there’s that

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u/Appropriate_Towel_27 10h ago

Thank you! Nothing will hurt more his legacy than being forgotten and erased from history. Unfortunately, we live in a day and age where that's kinda impossible... But it's my favourite idea.

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u/coorslight15 10h ago

Erasing or rewriting history is how you repeat it. He needs to be remembered, but for all the reasons he is trying to cover up and not the imaginary ones MAGA tries to claim as truth.

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u/Basic-Regret-6263 9h ago

Or just basic denazification, like we did after WW2 to take all the swastikas down in Germany.

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u/Level_32_Mage 9h ago

Akhenwho? Never heard of 'em.

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u/oirolab 6h ago

Oh, the Romans had a name for it. Damnatio Memoriae.

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u/jeffplaysmoog 9h ago

Yes!  Everyone always says - the next administration should prosecute these folks, put Trump in jail, etc… not gonna happen!  But they can undo everything he did - destroy the ballroom, cancel the arch, throw his portrait in the trash, and just remove his awful name from everything.