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Sundowning Trump is suffering his 'Saddam statue' moment
Trump’s Name, the State’s Vanity, and the Smallness of the ReactionThe Source Is the ClueThe reporting here is not really about a name coming off a building. It is about a president who has pushed his own name, image, and vanity into public institutions, and a panel that recognizes the gesture as political theater with authoritarian echoes. The Kennedy Center is the immediate stage; Trump’s self-branding is the act; the legal fight over whether the name stays or goes is the mechanism.Who Actually Holds PowerThe person with real institutional power in this story is Donald Trump. He is not…
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