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Behind the Aegis

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Sun Dec 28, 2025, 04:12 PM Yesterday

(JEWISH GROUP) What if Donald Trump puts his name on the US Holocaust Memorial Museum?

What if I told you that this morning, I found the following Truth Social post on my newsfeed?

“THE TRUMP US HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM HONORS will be broadcast tonight, on CBS, and Stream on Paramount+. Tune in at 8 P.M. EST! At the request of the Board, and just about everybody else in America, I am hosting the event. Tell me what you think of my “Master of Ceremony” abilities. If really good, would you like me to leave the Presidency in order to make “hosting” a full time job? We will be honoring true GREATS in the History of the Holocaust, from the Elders of Zion and the NSDAP to John Birchers and Groypers. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION.”


If you said this post wasn’t real, you would be right. If you said that I tweaked a recent Truth Social post, swapping the US Holocaust Memorial Museum for the former John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts, you would be right about that too.

But if you said that this post was unthinkable, my response would be “Think again.”

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So many words and acts once considered unthinkable have, under the two Trump presidencies, become not just thinkable and not just doable, but also increasingly unremarkable. Is there any word or act we still consider safely and surely unthinkable? Is there anything at all that, to quote Herman Kahn, while it may seem highly unlikely, indeed unthinkable, to many people — is not impossible?

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I think I would go apocalyptic. Of course, the reaction, from some, would be of amusement, hidden behind feigned anger, which would also make me madder than hell. Given we seen assholes culturally appropriate Jewish things, this is something which actually could happen.
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(JEWISH GROUP) What if Donald Trump puts his name on the US Holocaust Memorial Museum? (Original Post) Behind the Aegis Yesterday OP
Don't give him ideas. Ocelot II Yesterday #1
His nazi supporters would go ballistic Bluestocking Yesterday #2
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