What do you think history books will say about Trump 50 years from now?

[u/No-Gur-617]

[u/slice_of_pi]

It depends who is writing them. 

[u/NeatStranger7644 → u/slice_of_pi]

You are correct

[u/roscodawg → u/NeatStranger7644]

So the worst president there ever was. Based on the current trajectory

[u/Joey-WilcoXXX → u/roscodawg]

The current trajectory has me thinking it could very well be the complete opposite…..

‘Our dear leader was sooo brave to secretly wipe out all those pedo demmunists across the country with the help of his loyal disciples; Ghislaine Maxwell, RFK, his puppy JD Vance, and his puppy loving owner Kristi Noem, a small amount of unreasonably armed guards and the entire armies on loan from our great friends Russia and Israel to create a perfect utopia where the extremely rich profit and the homeless (aka everyone else) are locked up in our giant Nazi camps/babyslave making factories. It’s a bright future thanks to dear leader. Now stop reading this history book written for third graders and get back to your child labor shift or we’ll assume you’re gay and soft and need to be euthanized immediately :)’

[u/theman-dalorian → u/Joey-WilcoXXX]

100% correct. Pivotal point in history where Trump either be written as the most incompetent destructive president in history. Or praised as an American hero forever more.

Vote vote vote

[u/roychr → u/theman-dalorian]

Unfortunately there is your pov in the US and the truth out there. Unless the US conquers all other democracies the history will not be written by the victor, it will be simple propaganda.

[u/JaguarNeat8547 → u/roychr]

From what i can see, for whatever reasons, authoritarianism is on the rise worldwide. Sadly, no conquering necessary.

[u/OneX32 → u/JaguarNeat8547]

Authoritarianism never seems to always squash the truth. It always comes out sooner or later. Unfortunately, its often when those suffering are already dead.

[u/Krail → u/theman-dalorian]

We are so far past the point where voting will fix this. They're rigging the system in broad daylight. 

I mean, absolutely vote. But don't hold onto the belief that your vote will be counted fairly. 

[u/smashli1238 → u/theman-dalorian]

Hopefully we still can vote

[u/PowerNinja5000 → u/theman-dalorian]

There will never be another honest election in the US.

[u/theflamingskull → u/theman-dalorian]

Pivotal point in history where Trump either be written as the most incompetent destructive president in history. Or praised as an American hero forever more.

Only by indoctrinated Americans, and the Israelies. The rest of the world knows what a piece of shit he is. Including the Russians.

[u/lumpy-dragonfly36 → u/theman-dalorian]

You’re assuming that in the future, free and fair elections will still be held in the United States. That’s a very big assumption.

[u/theman-dalorian → u/lumpy-dragonfly36]

Correct

[u/CastorrTroyyy → u/Joey-WilcoXXX]

"all hail Peter Thiel" as the closing

[u/bridgeoverlord → u/roscodawg]

Worst President there ever was ... so far.

[u/tauregh → u/bridgeoverlord]

That’s just it. In 2006 I didn’t think it could get any worse. Now I’d be thrilled if we could get W back.

[u/stingertc → u/tauregh]

Are you kidding W is a liberal by today's standards

[u/smashli1238 → u/stingertc]

And a mental gymnast

[u/Objective-Lab5179 → u/tauregh]

Every Republican President gets worse and worse, so imagine who's next.

[u/algy888 → u/Objective-Lab5179]

Well, depending on Trump’s real health conditions, it’s likely JD Vance within 2 years.

[u/Vaping_A-Hole → u/tauregh]

Please don’t sane-wash Dubya. Trump is the worst but Dubya set the stage for all of whatever this is. Both will be remembered as terrible presidents. Just because Trump is an ignorant pig doesn’t mean Dub wasn’t that bad.

[u/ajslater → u/Vaping_A-Hole]

If there’s one positive about Trump, it’s that he does not seem to be militarily adventurous.

So far. I have some real concerns about what might happen to Mexico.

[u/illuminaughty1973 → u/tauregh]

american exceptionalism....even when completely fictional....

Reagan is viewed as one of the better us presidents after iran contra, trickle down economics and his personal health issues (alzheimers).

[u/cryptoengineer → u/bridgeoverlord]

I dunno. Buchanan, who preceded Lincoln, was a total failure at preventing the Civil War. I think that's worse than what Trump has done to date.

However, Trump is worst in the past 150 years.

[u/OkTransportation568 → u/roscodawg]

Or the founding president of the new order, if we never go back to a democracy…

[u/Counciltuckian → u/slice_of_pi]

What are books?

-kids in 2075

[u/Spicy_Weissy → u/Counciltuckian]

What is food?

-also kids in 2075

[u/Icky-Tree-Branch → u/Spicy_Weissy]

What are kids?

-adults in 2075 who got their first jobs at 7 mopping in the meat plants overnight. 

[u/WideParamedic6152 → u/Icky-Tree-Branch]

What is meat? -- Adults in 2075 who have eaten only soy-based meat substitute their entire lives.

[u/xeonicus → u/Icky-Tree-Branch]

The robots mop the plants. The humans provide the meat.

[u/Valoneria → u/Spicy_Weissy]

Arent you an optimist

[u/BeansAnnFranks → u/Spicy_Weissy]

Something something… There is this word called “groceries… food in a bag… something something…

[u/DoontGiveHimTheStick → u/slice_of_pi]

Even if these MAGAt Nazis take over the US, international history, and history books of the future, will 100% recognize it for what it is. Facts are facts and lies are lies no matter who writes it down.

[u/BelongingsintheYard → u/DoontGiveHimTheStick]

I think he will be compared to Mussolini a lot. Kind of an incompetent fascist that’s being controlled by a more competent fascist.

[u/Brilliant_Tourist400 → u/BelongingsintheYard]

Ding ding ding, we have a winner. History books, especially if they are written from a non-US perspective, will recognize Putin as the dictator of the early 21st Century and Trump as his incompetent stooge. By A Christmas Story standards, Putin is the Bully and Trump is the Toady.

[u/Prestigious_Beat6310 → u/DoontGiveHimTheStick]

Plus the Trump lies are shit like "Trump is excellent shape from winning so many golf tournaments." Comically stupid and pretty easy to see through.

[u/RocLaFamilia → u/Prestigious_Beat6310]

Or Trump is 6 3 240 lbs of pure muscle. Or there are no files, right after running on releasing files, or etc etc etc

[u/Figran_D → u/RocLaFamilia]

I read files quickly and saw flies.

As in President poopy pants flies.

It still works in your reply :)

[u/adorablefuzzykitten → u/RocLaFamilia]

Smithsonian exhibit explaining the physics how Trump was able to both wear lifts and still be able lean forward stand for his long red tie to hang. A small exhibit to the left with a vial containing the tiny sliver of mahogany removed from his ear postmortem proving it was the podium all along.

[u/7empestOGT92 → u/DoontGiveHimTheStick]

Reminds me of the quote (paraphrased): “If you destroy all religious texts and all science texts, in 1,000 years the religious texts wouldn’t be the same, but the science will be exactly the same because facts don’t change”

[u/Laura9624 → u/DoontGiveHimTheStick]

I dunno. They've given Nixon a pass. Except for Watergate. But there's so much more. He had Democrats in congress to stop him and a very different Supreme Court.

[u/Blecher_onthe_Hudson → u/DoontGiveHimTheStick]

Nonsense. Its been 38 years since Reagan left office, and he is mostly deified, instead of demonized for creating the trickle down, winners-take-all economy that has devastated the country and starting the trend of greatly expanding the national debt in order to cut taxes on the wealthy. The lies have totally blanked out the facts in the popular culture. Most polls put him in the top 10 presidents, and often higher.

[u/xynix_ie → u/slice_of_pi]

It will definitely say he raped children, regardless of who writes it. That will have been fully normalized by the Republicans by then, as they're working diligently to normalize rapists now.

[u/pronouncedayayron → u/xynix_ie]

He did it before it was made legal in 2026

[u/got-bent → u/pronouncedayayron]

He was a pedo before pedo was cool.

[u/wezworldwide → u/xynix_ie]

Civil infraction, rarely enforced

[u/trainmobile → u/slice_of_pi]

Well he is actively defunding the education system so most historians will probably portray him as the monster he truly is and not skip any detail. He will go down as the worst president in US history.

[u/BenjaminTW1 → u/slice_of_pi]

Yup. Historically, whoever wins the war writes the history.

[u/1369ic → u/BenjaminTW1]

Writes the first history. Things go back and forth, histories are revised, revisions are overturned... The Soviet Union was famous for this, but its history was revised, and now Putin seems to be trying to rehabilitate at least part of it, like Holocaust deniers and neo-Nazis (and Yeezy) try to rehabilitate Nazis. Years back I saw a right winger say Lincoln screwed up by starting the civil war because the two sides would have rejoined under better terms later. People treat history like silly putty to fit whatever narrative they need to push in the moment.

[u/Terrible-Ad-9746]

Honestly I feel like history books are gonna be sooo dramatic about him 😅 like “the most chaotic president ever” with all the scandals, Twitter rants, and that whole Capitol thing. People will probably still be arguing about him 50 years from now lol

[u/TurbulentWillow1025]

Books?

[u/IsThistheWord → u/TurbulentWillow1025]

Bold assumption

[u/BottleTemple → u/IsThistheWord]

History TikToks.

[u/Disastrous_Toe772 → u/BottleTemple]

With those awful ai generated images and video

[u/ElectronicControl762 → u/BottleTemple]

History Ameri-Toks

[u/vgaph → u/TurbulentWillow1025]

The resistance hid a few.

[u/PopularStaff7146]

Really depends where things go from here IMO.

[u/DrWKlopek → u/PopularStaff7146]

Current direction is not so hot

[u/cat9tail → u/DrWKlopek]

Climate change would like a word.

[u/BestBlueChocolate → u/cat9tail]

Climate change will be screaming shortly.

[u/djmanning711]

It will either talk about him as a coup leader attempting to overthrow American democracy, or it will talk about him as the father of the USA, a great thinker/leader and how he was the best golfer the world has ever seen.

[u/badmother → u/djmanning711]

how he was the best golfer the world has ever seen.

Nah, that's Kim Jong Il.

"Kim shot 38 under, including 11 holes-in-one, at the 7,700-yard championship course at Pyongyang in the VERY FIRST golf round of his life"

https://www.espn.com/espn/page2/index/_/id/7369649

[u/djmanning711 → u/badmother]

Fake news! You are FAKE NEWS.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

[u/Aplejax04 → u/badmother]

I miss when news articles looked like this. Now it’s more ads and pop ups then news.

[u/centran → u/djmanning711]

or it will talk about him as the father of the USA

Founding CEO of the United Corporations of America... There will be no more city/states. It will be regions owned by the biggest companies.

[u/Pasta-hobo → u/djmanning711]

Nah, let's be real here. Either the US survives and eventually recovers, or it doesn't.

There's no possible timeline where anyone is expected to look upon him fondly 50 years from now.

Either the fire gets put out, or the house is burnt to the ground.

[u/AlenaClub]

I think they will remember him as the President who accelerated the decline of the United States of America.

[u/GrimeyScorpioDuffman → u/AlenaClub]

I’m hoping they talk of him as rock bottom who inspired the US to turn around and rebound back to its prior prestige

[u/2reddit4me → u/GrimeyScorpioDuffman]

The US hasn’t hit rock bottom yet. I think we’re seeing is definitely the beginning of the end for us.

[u/Spicy_Weissy → u/2reddit4me]

Yeah, people forget Rome's decline was a long drawn process.

[u/Historical_Owl_8188 → u/Spicy_Weissy]

We're no Rome.

[u/turkeyburpin → u/2reddit4me]

It's a path and we were walking slowly down it stopping and going back the other way occasionally, Trump showed up with a Tesla and started driving down the road, much more efficient, better, best. No president in History has ever done as much! Not sure if /s is right here....but I want to mention it in case someone thinks I'm having a good time during this administration, I'm not and I won't pretend I am.

[u/Ok-Elk-6087 → u/2reddit4me]

There is no bottom for Trump.  Before Trump, I would have thought using the Smithsonian to emphasize the message that slavery wasnt so bad was beyond possible.

[u/lawnmowertoad → u/2reddit4me]

I remembered when Bush getting reelected was rock bottom

Good times.

[u/Comedynerd → u/2reddit4me]

I don't think history is linear, nor do I think history must necessarily conform to civilizational life cycles like Toynbee and Spengler might suggest. Rather history is contingent upon the outcomes of critical junctures which have compounding positive or negative effects over time. I think Trump is the culmination of several critical junctures and feedback loops that have led to this, but trump himself is also a critical juncture. Depending upon how we deal with trump and the fallout of his second presidency (hopefully no real radioactive fallout but you never know), America could be put back on track towards pluralistic inclusiveness or America slips further into extractive oligarchic decline 

[u/YesNotKnow123 → u/GrimeyScorpioDuffman]

I like that. That’s nice.

[u/TiPete → u/GrimeyScorpioDuffman]

It's too late for that sadly.

Reagan flushed and the US has been circling the drain ever since. There was a bit of hope in the early 2010s, but it's way too late now.

[u/snyderjw → u/TiPete]

But Reagan was just a Nixon sequel with higher production value.

[u/Outrageous-Pause6317 → u/snyderjw]

I’ve always said Reagan was just Nixon with charm.

[u/snyderjw → u/Outrageous-Pause6317]

We’re really in Nixon part 5 right now. Some of the same actors are even still involved. The rest of the original cast had been lost to death and infighting on the set.

[u/HyperactivePandah → u/Outrageous-Pause6317]

Nixon created the EPA

Reagan created trickle down economics.

Now, I'm not under the impression that Nixon ACTUALLY cared about the environment too much, but at least he did a couple things that helped the country.

Reagan just gaslit middle class white Americans into trusting him. Then he gave all their money to millionaires, who are now billionaires.

[u/flibbidygibbit → u/snyderjw]

Nixon wanted good things for some people. The "War on Drugs" was a way to tamp down certain groups.

He signed legislation that built the EPA, OSHA, reinvigorated the space program through the space shuttle, and funded cancer and sickle cell anemia research. He was considered the last "new deal" president.

Nixon even sent an envoy to develop relations with communist China.

Reagan promoted the worst parts of Nixon's presidency, enacted tax cuts for the rich and told everyone to look at how bad the commies were living.

[u/ChronoLegion2 → u/snyderjw]

Even Nixon supported healthcare reform, something modern Republicans call socialism

[u/totpot → u/AlenaClub]

The Hopi Native Americans have an old prophecy about a man in a red cap who appears when the environment is being destroyed and human greed is at its highest and ushers in the end times.

[u/BellsOnNutsMeansXmas → u/totpot]

In the prophecy, is the hat also ill-fitting and made in china?

Just looking for some wiggle room on that end of days thing....

[u/totpot → u/BellsOnNutsMeansXmas]

A Hopi elder presented the propechy to the UN in the 1970s. There are recordings of that.
The man in the red hat comes with a sidekick represented by the swastika.

[u/defixiones → u/AlenaClub]

He'll definitely be seen more as a symptom than a cause. He has advanced no legislation and has no achievements.

[u/TheShruteFarmsCEO → u/defixiones]

I hear you, but he doesn’t have to pass a bill to fundamentally undermine democracy, surrender our place on the world stage, and erode the tenants of what made America who we are.

[u/ZAlternates → u/defixiones]

He got elected and put our government up for sale.

He isn’t the mastermind behind the bullshit you’re seeing now, unless you count things like the “Gulf of America”. Instead he’s just selling access to legislation and government contracts to the highest bidders.

Anyone who wanted to get a law changed or passed who couldn’t do so before, now can, for a price. Need a pardon or VISA? Those are $2 million and $5 million respectively.

[u/ryhaltswhiskey → u/AlenaClub]

Decline? Heck it might be the dissolution.

[u/Ok-Permit2640]

The most corrupt president in the history of the United States

[u/Longjumping-Claim783 → u/Ok-Permit2640]

Nixon is rolling happily in his grave

[u/Head_Razzmatazz7174 → u/Longjumping-Claim783]

All Nixon did was spy on people. At the time it was a scandal. Now it wouldn't even get a minor headline in a local paper.

[u/Longjumping-Claim783 → u/Head_Razzmatazz7174]

And it wasn't even clear if he ordered it. It was the coverup that he got in trouble for. Now nobody gives a shit.

[u/Chill-more1236 → u/Longjumping-Claim783]

IKR, Trump is covering something up 2-5 times on the daily.

I give a shit & others do too. Its not enough power to sink him tho.

Been impeached twice & he slipped out.

Hopefully America votes to axe the nonsense at the next election & the Constitution does the rest.

[u/Quirky_Spinach_6308 → u/Chill-more1236]

That's making the optimistic prediction that there will actually be midterm elections in 2026.

[u/bamfsalad → u/Chill-more1236]

I feel like I need a tracker for all the shit he's done. I can't keep up or remember all of them.

[u/LLotZaFun → u/Head_Razzmatazz7174]

He technically put institutional racism into hyper speed and empowered Kaiser Permanente. That may not fall under corrupt but he’s definitely a POS for it.

[u/socgrandinq → u/Head_Razzmatazz7174]

Nixon also expanded the war into Cambodia even as he promised to end it. Kent State under his watch. He’s got plenty of blood on his hands

[u/Ghoulius-Caesar → u/Head_Razzmatazz7174]

Trump using the FBI to raid John Bolton’s house is 10x worse than Nixon’s Watergate spying in my opinion. That’s just a weekly event in the Trump Administration, especially 2.0.

[u/TrespianRomance → u/Longjumping-Claim783]

At least Nixon started the EPA or something? 

[u/Longjumping-Claim783 → u/TrespianRomance]

And expanded medicare to people on dialysis and normalized relations with China. signed the endangerd species act. Different generation of Republican. Still a son of bitch but not a complete moron.

[u/Forsaken_You1092 → u/Longjumping-Claim783]

Nixon would be considered a liberal today.

[u/ChronoLegion2 → u/Forsaken_You1092]

They’d probably call him a socialist. His reaction would be, “Socialist? Do you even know what a socialist is? I’ve faced off against real socialists!”

[u/Robotchickjenn → u/TrespianRomance]

His overall presidency wasn't bad. He did a lot of good things but they are eclipsed by Watergate

[u/Longjumping-Claim783 → u/Robotchickjenn]

I think the shenannigans he did in Vietnam, Laos and Cambaodia are worse than Watergate but you're right that Watergate is what primarily tarnishes his presedentsy. He could have won in 1972 without Watergate and would then probably be rememberd as a reasonably successful President

[u/dastrn → u/Longjumping-Claim783]

Trump is far FAR worse than Nixon.

Nixon's worst scandal is an average Tuesday for Donald Trump.

Man, when you think about it, conservatism elevates the worst people, huh? It must be so embarrassing to be a conservative. Imagine all the constant mental gymnastics they are stuck doing.

[u/helloowrigley → u/dastrn]

Specifically the way that conservatism and capitalism elevate each other (and those that serve them) in our current system.

During a Daily Show interview in the last few months, Jon Stewart pointed out that corporate America had become this fourth branch of power that essentially has no discernible checks and balances in place. It should be the responsibility of our government to regulate that playing field to protect its citizens, not investors’ profit margins.

[u/_Nigerian_Prince__ → u/Ok-Permit2640]

More corrupt and scammy than a Nigerian Prince 🫅 

[u/AmbitiousProblem4746]

If he had just had 1 term? Neutral, maybe a discussion about polarization and warning signs, but mostly glossed over as a generally ineffective, nominally unpopular president who struggled to have a lasting impact once he entered retirement. I would say even Jan 6th would've been reflected on as an embarrassment the country moved past, but not more than that.

Now that he's in his 2nd term and doing all sorts of shit? Really depends on who writes the history books. Either way, he is now one of the most "influential" presidents of our history and he will get an entire chapter or more devoted to him.

[u/Fit-Tax7016]

There won't be any history being taught if he gets his way

[u/Miserly_Bastard → u/Fit-Tax7016]

Yep. It'll be historical fiction overlapping with the fantasy genre.

[u/Low_Chance → u/Miserly_Bastard]

Look no further than the Christopher Columbus cartoon where he explains how brutal slavery is not so bad if you want a sneak preview

[u/Electronic_Nature_32 → u/Miserly_Bastard]

Fanfiction with a lot of grammatical errors.

[u/AntontheDog → u/Fit-Tax7016]

I think you are thinking like an American. There are plenty of countries in this world that would write the history of the US. Think about Germany. We all know what happened there even though they tried to suppress it.

[u/Crash_Revenge → u/Fit-Tax7016]

Thankfully, America isn’t the only place that documents history. I’m sure there will be a few other countries that will have detailed opinions on his presidency.

[u/HaxanWriter]

They will critique him hard but they will vilify the American people for sitting around with their thumbs up their asses and not doing anything to fight against fascism. Deservedly so.

History will not be kind to us. We don’t deserve it. We are 1933 Germans. That’s us. That’s who we are what this pice of shit country has become.

[u/LuvSnatchWayTooMuch → u/HaxanWriter]

I’m upset that MAGA supporters will suffer no repercussions for being cruel assholes…Bondi, Patel, Noem, etc

[u/dastrn → u/LuvSnatchWayTooMuch]

That's up to us. We can treat them how they deserve for the rest of their lives, or we can let them off, and let them do it again every 50 years.

I vote for consequences. I want them to reap what they've sown, socially.

[u/Wowseancody → u/HaxanWriter]

If the purpose of studying history is to learn from our mistakes, the role of the electorate in Trump's rise should be featured prominently in the history books. He didn't just wake up President one day. All these "I DiDn'T voTE foR ThiS" posts demonstrate he successfully convinced people not just to vote against other people's rights and liberties, but against their own livelihoods and freedoms.

[u/IfJohnBrownHadAMecha → u/HaxanWriter]

I think you don't give us quite enough credit in the German comparison. 

Millions are protesting this time around. The resistance is limp but it does exist. 

[u/rain-dog2 → u/HaxanWriter]

People get offended at comparisons to Nazi Germany, but it’s tragically funny that the more apt comparison might be to post WW1 America. We’re not acting like Nazis so much as we’re acting like our old racist, gilded age selves.

[u/Exotic-Ferret-3452]

What books? Those are banned in Gilead.

[u/ginrumryeale]

It turns out a well-informed citizenry was the best defense against tyranny. -QED

[u/Jumpy_Secret_6494]

"Donald trump suffered a cardiac arrest on the 7th of September, 2025."

[u/Binspin63 → u/Jumpy_Secret_6494]

I’m hoping for more like, “…he died a horrible, excruciatingly painful, slow death, whereupon, the distraught MAGA lemmings proceeded to throw themselves, one by one, into the Grand Canyon, knowing they’d soon be joining their exalted orange god on the mother ship.”

[u/jert3]

Outside of America? That Russia's compromising of the US presidency ushered in an era of fascism and led directly to the fall of America on the world stage, and the end of their super-power status.

[u/adonishappy]

I hope it will say: 'the president that nearly destroyed the u.s.a. '.

Instead of: 'the president that completely destroyed the u.s.a '.

[u/KPipes → u/adonishappy]

Except if it's the second option.. it won't say that.

It'll say "The greatest, most beautiful president this country has ever seen. The entire world really. People are saying it. Many people. Great people. Important people. And, you know, it's just really a beautiful thing, this president. No president has ever done more great things or been better at being a president of a country in all the history. Incredible, incredible leader. Loved by all the women too. Many women. They all love him. He could have any of them really. Beautiful women, those women. Many say his daughter Ivanka was very beautiful! Thank you for your attention to this matter"

[u/Horror-Layer-8178]

College history books and most of the high school ones will say he was a corrupt right wing authoritarian and call it America's experiment with fascism. The Texas school history books will say he saved the Country

[u/Chioborra]

Hopefully the truth

[u/Ryan_TX_85]

That he was the only president to suspend the constitution and rule by decree. The first president impeached more than once. The first convicted felon elected president. The only president to incite an act of violence and insurrection against the United States.

[u/twenty42 → u/Ryan_TX_85]

I have a bad feeling those "only"s will be replaced with "first"s as time goes on...

[u/Ryan_TX_85 → u/twenty42]

I don't think so. The only reason why Donald Trump gets away with being elected president despite being a pedophile, criminal, and terrorist is because he's also the world's most proficient con man due to his charismatic and cult leader appeal. There's no other politician, past or present (and assumingly future), who could get away with the things the American people let Trump get away with. That's why JD Vance is trying as hard as he can to support Trump's agenda while remaining a traditional politician. And I think it's safe to say that none of Trump's goons (Musk, Noem, Hegseth, Gabbard, RFK Jr, Miller, etc) have any future in politics after their regime has left office.

[u/zerbey → u/Ryan_TX_85]

MAGA will die with Trump, if he steps down as President, or whatever, JD Vance will be incapable of commanding the same respect Trump gets from his followers. The whole party is based on his ideology. Once Trump finally goes you will see a massive change in the Republican party as they fight to remain relevant.

[u/Ryan_TX_85 → u/zerbey]

MAGA will die with Trump. But the MAGA ideology has been around since the era of slavery and will continue to be around indefinitely. It will just take a different name, just like it always has.

[u/rlsetheepstienfiles]

The hardest working president ever no president could do better his numbers were huge

[u/Richard_Nachos → u/rlsetheepstienfiles]

Big ratings, in a lot of ways some people are saying the best ratings ever, so we'll be looking a that, and we'll see what happens.

[u/seepeeeseye → u/rlsetheepstienfiles]

YUGE!

[u/PM_me_pierced_nipplz]

I remember growing up and learning in history class about how Grant's administration was extremely corrupt. How his cabinet was ineffective and self serving, but he was elected largely for his popularity as a war hero.

I bet Trump will supersede Grant in the conversations about corrupt administrations and the dangers of ejecting public figures over public servants.

[u/Aliasgoeshere → u/PM_me_pierced_nipplz]

There's new books out that are changing the Grant narrative. It certainly was taught that way , but historians are starting to change their view.

[u/MRoad → u/Aliasgoeshere]

Honestly, the narrative around Grant's presidency sounds like lost causers wrote it to me

[u/PM_me_pierced_nipplz → u/Aliasgoeshere]

Probably because we need to reevaluate what we consider political corruption to be when it's as extreme as we're facing now

[u/avalonfogdweller]

That he was a punk bitch

[u/Accomplished_Self939]

What history books?

[u/MrLanesLament]

What’s gonna be weird is when kids have to have permission slips signed by their parents to be allowed to do the section of history class about Trump. Porn stars, shithole countries, “you can tell them to go fuck themselves,” the Access Hollywood quotes, etc.

[u/akamustacherides]

Whatever Baron dictates

[u/Antique_Ad1518]

That he was a cunt.

[u/Negativefalsehoods]

Very horrible things I imagine

[u/ejz1989]

in 50 years they will be saying thank God he is dead.

[u/curiousiah]

The date dear leader succumbed to mortality.

[u/katmom1969]

It won't be kind.

[u/Ok_Departure_7191]

The history books are already being written - Trump is a fascist subordinate of the Putin world order of far right authoritarianism. He is a felon and convicted sex offender. He is a criminal, traitor and a liar. He was elected by the worst of America.

[u/Pake1000]

Depends on how long conservatives retain power, because if they maintain control of the SC and Congress, school history books will be forced to write Trump in a positive way instead of a historically accurate way.

[u/ItsNotMe_ImNotHere]

It will be debated whether he was more like Nero or Caligula, the worst Roman Emperors.

[u/Chosh6 → u/ItsNotMe_ImNotHere]

It’s not entirely clear Caligula did all or even most of the heinous things attributed to him. Roman history was written by aristocrats and Caligula was a populist.

His reign was recorded in history by his enemies.

[u/Loki-L]

He will probably feature heavily in the beginning of the chapter about the decline and eventual collapse of the United States of America.

[u/kezopster → u/[deleted]]

According to Google translate:

The one who tore apart the orange tumor in the belly of the Leviathan that was devouring the world

[u/RogansUncle → u/[deleted]]

Is that a premonition?

[u/tdpnate]

Whatever King Barron Trump says they should say

[u/Funkycoldmedici]

I think it will be the same as how we look back at similar openly corrupt criminals in office. They’ll say “How could this have happened? Why didn’t anyone stop him? Never again.” Meanwhile, people supporting and working in the Trump administration will still be alive, still in politics, still trying to destroy lives, and still facing no consequences of any kind.

[u/Nodnardsemaj]

It's up in the air. Florida's history books in schools now read that slaves were given a great opportunity by learning many trades and skilled labor and theyre better off because of it. Thanks DeSantis

[u/OkStranger6324]

He will be noted as the first President of the Divided States of America.

[u/e4evie]

Traitor.

[u/Character_Answer_204]

moron, corrupt, pedophile, fat, lazy, cheats at golf, cankles

[u/Stock-Lifeguard2344]

That when the files were released after his death, it turned out he really was a predatory pedophile.

[u/mazy-Maidenspring]

The first twice elected traitor.

[u/Any_Spray_4829]

Worst president ever. And it won't take 50 years.

[u/wrexsol]

Hopefully that he sucked.

[u/VanJeans]

Americans were conned to make his family richer

[u/lostacohermanos]

Sadly we probably will continue to get even worse presidents. I remember growing up people saying we couldn’t do worse that George W Bush and now there is nostalgia for him because Trump is so stupid and horrible.

[u/Dependent-Hurry9808]

Not exactly our first choice but this is what we got

[u/TXblindman]

Notable fascist and failed dictator Donald Trump's headstone now holds the world record for most shits taken on one person's grave.

[u/pgsimon77]

The lesson of history seems to be clear; reactionary movements come and go / but progress tends to win out in the end. Martin Luther King was right when he said that the arc of the universe bends towards justice.... It is only a matter of time 😺

[u/Doridar]

We will most likely have far more important matters to deal with in 2075 than writing about Trump, but if someone has the opportunity, they'll call him and his minions the symptoms of the fall of mankind

[u/Sayon7]

Wonder what the history books will say about citizens that let Trump happen

[u/SafeRoof7005]

Trump is a few paragraphs. It’s everyone else who abandoned the constitution that enable this.

[u/AdAmazing8187]

As Norm McDonald said, “I was reading some history the other day. And I was just shocked that the good guys always won”

[u/Gessoartist]

I don’t know. But the first name “Donald” will be as popular then as the first name Adolf is now.

[u/Uvtha-]

I think it will be mostly focused on "how on earth did this all happen?"

[u/FreshResult5684]

I hope the truth

[u/LethalVoice]

the vile demagogue who (nearly?) broke the United States

[u/Silent_Purchase_2654]

Trump (noun, adj, vrb) - to fail spectacularly in every way possible. A boorish boastful clown. Also used to describe the tantrums of a poorly behaved child.

[u/Best_Mechanic_7007]

That he was a piece of shite.

[u/Such_Display_4612]

In 50 years, I'm not sure, but in 100 years, I think that textbooks will note that he was the closest thing to a dictator that the U.S. has ever willingly elected to office.

[u/Ok-Government-7987]

Without a 24/7 media ecosystem to cover for him, like he has now, harshly.

I hope that the general population who enabled him don’t get off without shouldering the blame.

[u/Key_Head3851]

Just as the National Socialist Party of Germany (NSDAP or NAZI) before it, the people of the United States allowed bold fascism to override common sense creating the first dictatorship the United States of America had ever seen. The constitutional re-writes that made this possible were achieved with relative ease due to the SCOTUS and the active electorate being largely unified under conservative ideals.

Most corporations capitulated to the first “President for Life” demands due to his cult-like popularity among the incredibly powerful conservative movement, removing any dissenting or critical voices in a systematic “cleansing” of the media, just as the NAZI party of Germany did in the 20th century under Adolf Hitler.

Self-styled culture wars against the supposed “Woke” agenda succeeded in creating enormous amounts of infighting and polarization. This political climate resulted in the American public being superficially distracted as wealth disparity in the United States in those years and following the dictatorship, increased exponentially.

What was once considered the “bedrock” of American society in the 20th century, the middle class had become nearly extinct in the early part of the 21st century.

[u/NewOriginal2]

The fascists couldn’t destroy America’s democracy if it wasn’t for the large population that either didn’t understand what authoritarianism is or didn’t believe it would happen.

Just like Germany in the 1930’s. You had the pro-fascists and the anti-fascists and also the people that were ambivalent to what was happening. Neutrality never helps the oppressed. It always favors the oppressor

[u/Jse034]

It won’t be pretty. He’ll no doubt be as famous as Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini et al for the same reasons. He may want to check out how it all ended for them. 👀

[u/Devils_Advocate-69]

Same shit they’re saying about Hitler now

[u/Optimal_Ear_4240]

Traitor

[u/katmom1969 → u/Optimal_Ear_4240]

Fact

[u/Aural_Essex]

The history books in most schools will be able to tell the truth by then. They will not be favorable to him and his followers.

[u/thedeeb56]

I hope it says the army arrested him and his whore family and they all died in guantamino bay

[u/timotheusd313 → u/thedeeb56]

Not sure if you used the word “whore” intentionally, but either way I’m all for it.

[u/a_lot_of_faffin → u/timotheusd313]

I pictured Frank Reynolds saying it