Building a New Presidential Library

As we all know, the current occupant of the White House does not read. Aides and lackeys make sure that any written material is brief – only a few bullet points – because of his notoriously short attention span. He will not accept anything that is not admiring of him.

Regardless of when or under what circumstances he exits the White House, the current president will no doubt want a monument to himself, with his name in giant gold letters – all capitals – on the outside façade of the building, bigger and more gaudy than the libraries of his predecessors. The problem is how does one fill up a library with written documents no longer than 140 characters?

Quantity, that’s how. Every day the president adds to his already staggering pile of tweets. How does a researcher or historian or just a curious person sort through it all? Brendan Brown, a former Peace Corps volunteer now working as a programmer, has put together a database of Trumpian tweets, updated every minute. If you are curious about what the current president has had to say about Rosie O’Donnell, you can find out in seconds. If you are into self-abuse, you can read them all, starting with the latest and working your way back in time, even to before he was commander-on-chief. You can compile tweets by subject or for a certain date range or even time of day.

Click here to get started.

Mr. Brown has also put together Contacting Congress, a searchable database with contact information for all 535 members of Congress. It comes with some interesting data, such as Senator Mitch McConnell comes from state that went 62.5% for the Republican candidate in the last presidential election and is home to 443,300 ACA Medicaid enrollees out of a total of 1,281,500 Medicaid recipients. (Does not mention, though, that his state is ground zero for opioid addiction.) It lists telephone numbers and addresses for Lexington, Paducah and his four other offices in addition to Washington D.C. office.

Enjoy!

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