Presidential libraries exist for one purpose: to house the historical record of an administration. The documents, the decisions, the evidence of what actually happened and why. They belong to the public, not the president.
So it’s worth asking — what exactly is the Trump Presidential Library supposed to contain?
Trump’s own Justice Department has now declared the Presidential Records Act unconstitutional. The administration’s position, as watchdog groups told a federal court, is that the President is legally free to destroy records of his official government conduct. MS NOW This from a president who, in his first term, tore documents into pieces so small they looked like confetti, requiring staff to fish out the scraps and tape them back together.
Meanwhile, Miami-Dade College has transferred a nearly 3-acre parcel of prime downtown Miami real estate — valued at over $67 million — for the Trump presidential library, with a judge temporarily blocking the transfer while a lawsuit plays out.  Many in the public only learned what the vote was actually for when the Florida Attorney General announced it on X, minutes after the board voted.
This is not a library. A library preserves the truth. This is a monument — to a man who doesn’t want one written.
So here is the logical conclusion: if there are no records worth preserving, there is nothing to archive. If there is nothing to archive, there is no need for a library. And if there is no need for a library, there is certainly no justification for a $300 million piece of college land — land that belongs to the students of Miami-Dade — being handed over for what amounts to a vanity hotel with a reading room attached.
Return the land. Give it back to the college. Let the students park their cars on it, or build a classroom, or sell it and fund a thousand scholarships.
