Washington Post writer says Trump should never be allowed to have a presidential library
"Trump wants a library. He must never have one," reads the WaPo headline.
By Joseph Curl
Updated: January 29, 2021 - 12:31pm
The Washington Post turned to Philip Kennicott, a Pulitzer Prize-winning art and architecture critic who first worked for the paper critiquing classical music and culture, to argue against former President Trump ever getting his own presidential library.
Every president since Franklin D. Roosevelt has a library, but Kennicott said Trump "must never have one."
"Former president Donald Trump will have an official portrait in the National Portrait Gallery at some point," Kennicott writes. "And in states where he remains popular, he could have airports, bridges and schools named for him. But Trump must never have an official presidential library, and Congress should move quickly to make sure he never will."
He also says Trump should never even be allowed to try to have a library because even that would "cause further damage to the country."
"That is why Congress should use this moment to reconsider the legislation that helped create and shape the presidential libraries now administered by the National Archives, not just to prevent Trump from perpetrating one last, giant grift, but to reform the system so it serves the country better," Kennicott continues. "This is long overdue, and would need to be done even if Trump weren’t trying to raise $2 billion for a Trump center. But his intention to do so makes this urgent, even an issue of national security."
But then Kennicott argued that historians need access to Trump's presidential documents, which would be held in a library.
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