ONE WEIRD TRICK DEMOCRATS COULD USE TO MAKE TRUMP'S NARCISSISM HUMILIATING

There are more important stories right now, but I want to focus on this one:

National parks change prioritizes Trump birthday over days honoring Black people

The Donald Trump administration has changed which holidays qualify for free entrance to national parks, removing two holidays celebrating Black people and adding the president’s birthday....

Now, visitors to the 116 parks that charge entrance fees will no longer get in for free on MLK Day or on Juneteenth.... They will, however, on Trump’s June 14 birthday, which was added to the list this year....

Other free entrance days in 2026 include Presidents Day (Washington’s Birthday), Memorial Day, Independence Day weekend, the 110th birthday of the National Park Service, Constitution Day, Theodore Roosevelt’s birthday and Veterans Day.

This is obviously a story about Trump's deep and lifelong anti-Black racism -- but it's also a story about his boundless egomania. He sometimes appears to be the most narcissistic person who's ever lived.

This story appeared shortly after your tax dollars were used to position letters in place changing the United States Institute of Peace to the Donald J. Trump United States Institute of Peace.

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— Marisa Kabas (@marisakabas.bsky.social) December 3, 2025 at 10:52 PM

Yesterday, the building hosted a signing ceremony for an agreement between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, which Trump sold as a peace settlement, even though the fighting is still going on. Trump slept through part of the signing. On Tuesday, Trump also slept through parts of a meeting in which Cabinet secretaries took turns praising him.

Today Trump will receive the so-called FIFA Peace Prize, an award invented by international soccer's governing body in order to curry favor with Trump, who remains butthurt because he's never received a Nobel Peace Prize.

And that's just one week of Trumpian narcissism.

Regular readers of this blog know the approach to Trump I recommend for Democrats: attack him on every serious issue ... and attack him on trivial issues (yes, even "distractions" like threatening Greenland or renaming the Gulf of Mexico) if what he's doing is very unpopular. I think Trump's narcissism falls in the latter category. I believe Democrats should try to start a conversation about Trump's egomania whenever the opportunity seems to arise, asking how much time and money are spent flattering the president, who seems to believe that we live in the United States of Trump.

Of course, the same Democrats and Democratic consultants who say that the party shouldn't use big words like "oligarchy" would probably say the same thing if party members began talking about Trump's "narcissism" or "egomania." I think those are perfectly ordinary words that nearly everyone understands -- but if multi-syllable words are deemed a problem, never fear: Democrats could talk about this using two simple one-syllable words.

Self-love.

Imagine Gavin Newsom posting a fake Trump press release announcing the creation of a new Cabinet-level Department of Self-Love, with President Trump naming himself as America's first Secretary of Self-Love. Or imagine Jasmine Crockett or AOC mocking Trump's self-love on television.

I think Democrats should mention the examples of self-love that I listed above, as well as others (like the Trump banners hanging from federal buildings). They should demand hearings on the consequences of Trump's self-love, with an air of seriousness -- they should never break character and reveal that they get the joke. Ideally, they'd say all this in dead earnest, or with barely suppressed laughter.

It's hard to imagine Democrats doing this -- but wouldn't it be hilarious if the words "Trump" abnd "self-love" became inextricably linked in Americans' minds?

Maybe this is juvenile -- but hey, it's 2025. Whatever works.