The Secrets We'll Learn When Trump Dies

An occasional series.

History is a brutal archivist.

It doesn’t care about the troll farms bleating MAGA agitprop in unison, the merch, the religious ecstasy of the cult, the turgid lies of Fox News, or the endless gaslighting that defined the Trump era.

History is patient. It waits.

And when Donald Trump finally departs this mortal coil, what will remain is not the branding, not the rallies, not the cheap gilded iconography of an authoritarian con man.

What will remain are the truths, the things pried loose from the vaults, whispered by aides and former allies freed of fear, revealed in the unsealed files and brutal footnotes of a regime built on corruption, cowardice, and cult adoration.

We will learn more than we want to know.

Trump’s greatest addiction wasn’t money, women, or even attention. With age, it all