Link: https://thebulletin.org/2026/07/american-nero-why-trump-is-trying-to-burn-down-the-national-academy-of-sciences/

It’s said that Nero fiddled while Rome burned. Others have argued he actually started the fire, so that he could rebuild the city to his liking. We cannot allow our American Nero to fuel the flames while the planet burns with his reckless pro-fossil fuel policies. And we cannot allow him to destroy institutions—like the US National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine—that provide a candle in the growing darkness of ignorance.

You're right, we cant. And yet, we are.

Trump is the Greatest American Nero

Because knowing reality is the greatest and most imminent threat to the machinations of a liar.

It’s what abusers do. They make you question everyone but them. All the while, they are breaking you and stealing your future.

Because the GOP famously hates education.

Even less intelligent than a GAN

because reality has a liberal bias and those writing their own fictions can’t have that