You’ve got to put your name on stuff
So little Donald went to Mount Vernon one day with his friend Manny. Little Donald was bored, and he thought George Washington was stupid.
During a guided tour of Mount Vernon last April with French president Emmanuel Macron, Trump learned that Washington was one of the major real-estate speculators of his era. So, he couldn’t understand why America’s first president didn’t name his historic Virginia compound or any of the other property he acquired after himself.
“If he was smart, he would’ve put his name on it,” Trump said, according to three sources briefed on the exchange. “You’ve got to put your name on stuff or no one remembers you.”
Yeah. Just put your name on stuff, one way or another, and that way people will remember you. It could be on books you wrote or music you composed, or it could just be pasted on something to memorialize your vanity and presumption.
The VIPs’ tour guide for the evening, Mount Vernon president and CEO Doug Bradburn, told the president that Washington did, after all, succeed in getting the nation’s capital named after him. Good point, Trump said with a laugh.
America’s 45th president is open about the fact that he doesn’t read much history.
Much? Make that any. He doesn’t read anything at all; not newspapers, not daily intelligence briefings, nothing. He sure as hell doesn’t read any history.
The president’s disinterest in Washington made it tough for tour guide Bradburn to sustain Trump’s interest during a deluxe 45-minute tour of the property which he later described to associates as “truly bizarre.” The Macrons, Bradburn has told several people, were far more knowledgeable about the history of the property than the president.
A former history professor with a PhD, Bradburn “was desperately trying to get [Trump] interested in” Washington’s house, said a source familiar with the visit, so he spoke in terms Trump understands best — telling the president that Washington was an 18th century real-estate titan who had acquired property throughout Virginia and what would come to be known as Washington, D.C.
Of course it is.
Probably could’ve also mentioned the slave-owning. I bet Trump would’ve just loved that.
Washington who? Maybe if he put his name on Mt. Vernon, school kids would hear about him.
Little known fact: He did have “Washington Manse” on the main portico “emblazon’d in big beautifull gilt Letters of most excellent Quality” until Martha put her foot down.
Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha that’s very good.