At 5:10 in the evening, the President of the United States posted a graphic ranking many of the presidents in American history and placed himself at the very top, alone, as “THE GREATEST,” with Washington and Lincoln a level below him. It was the first of more than 60 posts over the next 24 hours, culminating in a fake image of an 80 year old president as an action hero in dark sunglasses, assault rifle in hand, walking away from burning buildings under the words “NO MORE MR. NICE GUY!” It would be easy to laugh, but something more serious is happening. Trump is rewriting American history with himself at the center, counting on people seeing his face next to Washington and Lincoln enough times that it stops seeming strange, and counting on enough of us to stop checking whether any of it is even true.
While he flooded his feed with fantasy, four astronauts who had traveled farther from Earth than anyone in history stood on a stage in Houston, waiting nearly half an hour for him to arrive. At a ceremony meant to honor the Artemis 2 crew, he made it about himself. The hardest moment came when he spoke about Commander Reid Wiseman’s late wife, Carroll, who died of cancer at 46, and the lunar crater the crew had tearfully named after her from the far side of the moon. Standing beside the man whose wife that crater honors, Trump said, “I wish they’d named something like that after me.” The room did not laugh. He had taken a moment about them and made it about himself, because it is all he knows how to do.
The deeper worry is that this works on a country worn down by 25 years of crisis. Authoritarianism does not need everyone to be ignorant. It just needs enough of us too exhausted to pay attention. That is why we need the people who carry the truth, especially the grandparents whose own parents stormed Normandy and survived occupation, the last living bridge to the generation that stopped fascism the first time. When they are gone, that memory goes with them, unless we preserve it, and this time we can, because the record no longer has to die with the witnesses. The courts are still holding, for now. A federal judge denied Trump’s attempt to escape his New York conviction for the third time, and his 34 felony counts stand. He can post all the graphics he wants and declare himself the greatest, but he does not get to decide how history remembers him. History remembers what we actually did. Our job now is to make sure the truth survives long enough for the next generation to know the difference.
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This video is based on my written post, available HERE, and based on the events of 8-28-2026.
This commentary represents my personal opinions and analysis of matters of public concern, informed by publicly available information. Any references to individuals constitute opinion and commentary protected under the First Amendment.
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President Trump Participates in the Congressional Space Medal of Honor Presentation: YouTube Video
President Trump Calls the International Space Station: YouTube Video
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