Trump thinks his 'presidential library' could be at one of his own properties. Of course

One of the, sigh, less-weird parts of Chuck Todd's generally uncombative interview with Donald Child Internment Camps Trump was Todd's invitation to Trump to speculate on what his eventual "presidential library" might consist of.

This is one of those throwaway what's-your-favorite-pie-filling sorts of questions, not quite intended to be humanizing (most humans are not expected to found their own libraries dedicated to their own life and times) but damn near impossible for an interviewee to screw up.

But sweet jeebus, there may not be a softball question yet invented that Donald J. Trump would not respond to with the same stuporous blather.

"I'm so busy. I know a lot of people have mentioned it to me, the presidential library."

Translation: Nobody has mentioned it to him. He is not busy. His brain likely seized up the moment Todd offered up the word "library," which Trump reflexively assumed was the prelude to his questioner asking about book-learning. He may have forgotten libraries existed until Todd, no doubt attempting to trip him up, brought it up, and so he volleyed with the same a lot of people are saying phrase-tossing he uses whenever anyone asks him about war or budgets or high-priority Republican bills or how many legs he suspects the average dog has. The man can turn literally any conversation into a contentless, sucking void.

Prompting, Todd asked if Trump knows "where you'd want it?"

"I have a lot of locations, actually. The nice part is I don't need to worry about buying a location."

If anyone out there is expecting the Donald J. Trump Presidential Library and Casino to be anywhere but in a Donald Trump-owned property, they do not know Donald Trump. The possibility of Trump charging his own library "foundation" Trump-inflated rent forever is precisely the sort of small-ball grift that Trump has dedicated his very existence to. This will happen. Whether it's a designated Mar-a-Lago closet or the empty husk of some bankrupt casino, the man absolutely will make a long-term locked-in buck off the donors to his own "library."

By all means, grift that grift. Who are we to complain? Rob them blind. Anyone fool enough to donate to a Trump presidential "library" at this late date, and after all that has happened, deserves to be taken for every mean little penny.