Tuesday, March 31, 2026

The library will be a hotel

Via Aaron Rupar: A reporter asked a question about the AI video depiction of the current occupant’s planned library. “Is that all a library? What else is going in there?”

“Well, it’s a library. It’s a museum or a library. It’s a presidential. But I wouldn’t start it till I’m out of office. I don’t believe in building libraries, or museums. It’s really like the Barack Hussein Obama one in Chicago, in not a good location, and it’s a very unattractive building that’s seriously late and seriously over budget. I think you’re gonna see a great one here, and it’ll go up on time, on budget, best location in Miami, best, they say it’s the best block in Miami, and the state worked with us.”
The building is huge. “Will people live on its floors?”
“No, it’s most likely gonna be a hotel, you know, this concept, could be office, but it’s most likely gonna be a hotel with a beautiful building underneath and a 747 Air Force One in the lobby, which is gonna be a trick.”
It’s also always a trick to have a library be a hotel, and to build a hotel with a beautiful building underneath. Is he planning a southern bunker?

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comments: 2

Anonymous said...

I feel this hotel library thing could go in North Korea?
(what the hell?)
—Fresca

Michael Leddy said...

It has the look of something from a state ruled by a despot. The NYT pointed out that the flag on the outside has fifty-six stars. Is that an AI mistake, or a suggestion of additions: Canada, Venezuela, Greenland, Kharg, Cuba — what else?

(Fresca, you’re back online!)