Trump is so delusional that apparently he believes that until he got impeached he was going to be considered the greatest president in American history. Seriously. He doesn't seem to understand that over half the country and most of the rest of the world have seen him as a lying, incompetent, buffoon from the moment he entered the political arena. And since he became president his disgusting personality and overt corruption and traitorous ineptitude (I'm being generous by calling it that) have sealed his reputation as the worst president in in world history.
“Obsessed” is how one former White House official described Trump’s mindset about how people will remember him. Trump, the ex-official said, has told people around him that impeachment would leave his presidency “tainted.” “His image is hugely important to him,” the former official said. “He is going crazy over this because the legacy he is looking for is the greatest president — even more so than Abraham Lincoln or George Washington.”
Instead, his name will now be included on another short list of presidents — those attached to impeachment. It’s an ignominious group that includes Andrew Johnson, remembered for his refusal to ensure racial equality and voting rights for African-Americans after the Civil War, Richard Nixon, who resigned before being impeached but nonetheless caused generations of Americans to lose faith in government, and Bill Clinton, who has remained popular but is facing a reassessment of his impeachment legacy in the #MeToo era.
[...]On the eve of a House vote, the president angrily ticked through a list of over 20 accomplishments that he believes should comprise his legacy in a scathing letter sent to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. The letter, drafted at Trump’s direction and composed with the help of several senior aides, touched on all of the president’s favorite hits — jobs, the economy, the military, the Second Amendment “and so many other things. “Nobody’s done as much as I've done in the first three years,” he finished.
“It's been very hard on my family,” Trump said. “Impeachment, to me, is a dirty word. It’s been very unfair, very hard on my family. Me, my whole life is crazy.”
Trump returned to the theme in his letter, admonishing Pelosi: “You do not know, nor do you care, the great damage and hurt you have inflicted upon wonderful and loving members of my family.”
[...]Essentially, the Trump presidential legacy is synonymous with the Trump family legacy.
This is correct. And one of them main reasons he is so concerned is that the "brand" he scratched together in the years after he lost all of daddy's money with a TV show, licensing deals for development projects and the tabloid press is totally destroyed. He knows his most ardent fans aren't the kind of people who are into his phony "luxury" junk and the people who might have bought into it in the past, particularly overseas, will not want to be associated with his name ever again.
The Trump's will have some wingnut welfare-type income. There's always money there. But it's nothing like what he's been pretending to have and he's not in a position to go back into business and rebuild his con game. I have a sneaking suspicion that after he's out of politics, even his fans are going to be sick of his act any thought of a media empire is going to fizzle badly.
So yes, his family is in trouble too. But perhaps they should have stayed out of politics instead of launching themselves into the middle of it. It wouldn't have been easy to avoid the taint, but a few years of dignified, low profile behavior and they might have been able to maintain enough of a reputation to survive this.
The Trump name was a joke before all this but now he's turned it into a name that will be even more familiar and notorious as "Benedict Arnold", forever associated with stupidity, greed, graft, lies and betrayal.
At least Benedict Arnold was a competent general.
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