50 stories of gold, delusion, and a flag with 56 stars

In a sane world, a presidential library is where history goes to be preserved. 

Documents, artifacts, the weight of consequential decisions rendered in quiet archival dignity. 

Johnson’s. Reagan’s, Kennedy's. 

Places where the gravity of the office is honored with something approaching solemnity.

And then there is the proposed Donald J. Trump Presidential Library in Miami — a 50-story golden dream so aggressively, catastrophically tasteless that it constitutes a hate crime against architecture.

Let us take the tour.