Damnatio Memoriae

Damnatio Memoriae

We scrub the gilding off the Oval Office

We’ll bleach his stains off presidential carpet

Chisel his name off of erect obelisk

But can’t redact it from the pedophile list

D– do damnatio memoriae

We’ll light a bonfire in cement Rose Garden

You throw red cap into the black garbage bin

We spike their kool-aid with the antidote in

We melt the ICE by burning hydrocarbon

D– do damnatio memoriae

We’ll wipe the sign off 401 North Wabash

Reduce the ballroom to a pile of ash

Give all his minions just a taste of the lash

Wash all the orange out of the funeral mask

D– do damnatio memoriae

Blot out his signature on legal tender

We’ll lock him up, habitual offender

Restore dead Kennedy onto the Center

We can erase yet still always remember

D– do damnatio memoriae

D– do damnatio memoriae

Release date: June 14, 2026

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