ROMAN HISTORIANS: And then we had YET ANOTHER batshit idiot monster manchild for an Emperor and every day was a living nightmare

LATER HISTORIANS: Clearly an exaggeration. Bear in mind this was written by his enemies.

2016-2020: HI THERE.

50th CENTURY HISTORIANS: The popular myth that Trump encouraged his subjects to drink bleach must be understood in the folk tradition of the "meme", a late-American custom which

ROMAN HISTORIANS: YES HE REALLY LITERALLY MADE THE HORSE A SENATOR WE COULDN'T BELIEVE IT EITHER BUT IT FUCKING HAPPENED, STOP FUCKING GASLIGHTING US.

21st C HISTORIANS, EXHAUSTED: ... okay.

ROMAN HISTORIANS: We got rid of him in the end, though.

21st C: OMG how?

ROMANS: ;-)

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