Donald Trump has strange and eccentric taste in past presidents. Many former Oval Ones have wanted to emulate GW, Lincoln, TR, FDR, Truman, Ike, JFK, or LBJ. Only the Insult Comedian has wanted to emulate Andrew Jackson and William McKinley. The former was often cited as a great president until his reputation began its downward spiral in the late 20th Century. However, few consider McKinley a great president, except for Trump and whoever on his team talked up the Ohioan.

One of President Pennywise’s first actions upon joining Grover Cleveland as a non-consecutive president was to issue an executive order re-renaming the majestic Alaskan peak seen in the featured image. It was known for centuries by its native name, Denali. From 1917 to 2015, it was officially known as Mount McKinley. It’s another Obama move undone by 45/47.

Alaskans aren’t happy about the restoration:

“The president noted the name change in his recent address before Congress, adding, “Beautiful Alaska, we love Alaska.” But Mr. Trump’s decision has not gone over well with his crush. Even before he changed the name, a poll found that Alaskans opposed it two to one. The State Legislature passed a resolution last month urging the president to reverse the decision. And the state’s two Republican senators, Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan, are sponsoring legislation to rename the mountain.

“In Alaska, it’s Denali,” Senator Murkowski said in a statement.”

What the hell do they know? They just live there.

It’s time to do the Ira Gershwin shuffle Alaska style: You say McKinley, I say Denali. Let’s call the whole thing off.

The Kaiser of Chaos doesn’t give a shit about nature or the fact that there are dozens of things named for the 25th president. All he knows about McKinley is that he dug tariffs and imperialism. What comic book did he learn that from? Strike that, it must have been a segment on Fox News; even comic books are too complicated for the man who’s turning America into Moronica.

I’ve written several times about the New Gilded Age that MAGA is putting us through. It was only gilded for wealthy oligarchs: most Americans had to deal with poverty, child exploitation, and the absence of a safety net in the era where the “rich were so mean.”

Nobody should be nostalgic for the Gilded Age: they even had 45/47’s bête noire, windmills. I wonder if he’s ever seen Alfred Hitchcock’s Foreign Correspondent:

Shudder, Donald, shudder.

I’ve already written at length about the stupidity of tariffs, Trump’s idiotic passion for imperialism is equally odious and oblivious. It’s a vestige of past, less-enlightened times. Why neo-colonialism is suddenly his jam is beyond me. The threats against Greenland, Gaza, Canada, and the Panama Canal are fantastic in the original meaning of the word: “Existing only in imagination; proceeding merely from imagination; fabulous, imaginary, unreal (obs.). b. In mod. use, of alleged reasons, fears, etc.: Perversely or irrationally imagined.”

The synonyms for fantastic fit MAGA world like a glove: Absurd, bizarre, crazy, fanciful. foolish, insane, nonsensical, preposterous, unreal, wild.

It’s ironic that someone whose hatchet man is a tech broligarch wishes to return us to the 19th Century. Can someone please tell the Kaiser of Chaos what ironic means. Irony is beyond him.

None of these Trumpist fantasies are healthy for the country or the world. In his day, William McKinley was considered a realist who defeated a fantasist populist for the presidency in 1896. Democratic nominee William Jennings Bryan’s most famous line is this:

Bryan was wrong about many things, most notably evolution, but he was right about income equality and imperialism. The Trump Regime wants to crucify humanity on a cross of magical thinking, absurd fantasies, and crypto. The stupid, it burns.

The REM song Exhuming McCarthy inspired this post title. I’ve used it as the last word several times in the past but there’s no time like the present to say: The last word goes to REM.