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Presidents Day
16 February 2026
We've always used the plural possessive form of this holiday's name (Presidents' Day, that is) because it honors all the men (still just men) who have served in that office. What started as homage to George Washington and conveniently lumped in Abraham Lincoln has, however, come to include a few scoundrels, including the present convicted felon.
Wikipedia provides some guidance on this matter:
When used with the intention of celebrating more than one individual, the form "Presidents' Day" celebrates all presidents individually (therefore, George Washington's Day and Zachary Taylor's Day and Woodrow Wilson's Day). In recent years, as the use of attributive nouns (nouns acting as modifiers) has become more widespread, the form "Presidents Day" has also become common (celebrating Presidents Washington through Trump collectively) in honoring the whole concept of presidents; the Associated Press Stylebook, most newspapers and some magazines use this form. "President's Day" as an alternate rendering is to honor any one particular president, or for the purpose of commemorating the presidency as an institution.
Honoring "the whole concept of presidents" is significantly more palatable to us at the moment than celebrating "all presidents individually." So we're dropping the possessive.
Honoring the concept instead of the individual, is our way of taking the felon's name off the holiday. Would we could as easily remove it from the Kennedy Center facade (and anywhere else it disgraces this nation).
For disgrace, it does.
We've read or listened to over 2,646 news stories from a variety of legitimate sources covering this presidency since February 2025. We've cataloged them on My Country, 'Tis of Thee because we want the people who voted for him to be able to see at a glance exactly how he's used the office they gave him.
But in excluding the snake parading in the moral desert he made looking for yet another place to display his name, we can instead today applaud the people who served honorably as President of the United States.
In From One President to Another, a Love Letter With an Edge (gift link), Jennifer Schuessler quotes an essay published today by George W. Bush:
"Few qualities have inspired me more than Washington's humility," former President George W. Bush writes in the essay, which was released as part of a new nonpartisan history project.
"Our first president could have remained all-powerful, but twice he chose not to," Mr. Bush writes, referring to Washington's decision to relinquish leadership of the Army after the American Revolution, and then to step down from the presidency after two terms.
By "relinquishing power rather than holding onto it," Mr. Bush continues, "he ensured America wouldn't become a monarchy, or worse."
Created for the 250th anniversary of American independence, new 1,250-word essays on American presidents up to Barack Obama (plus some first ladies) will be posted weekly on In Puruist.
They will include essays by Obama on Abraham Lincoln, Bill Clinton on Theodore Roosevelt, Fox News host Bret Baier on Dwight D. Eisenhower and Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. on William Howard Taft, the only person to have served both as president and a Supreme Court justice.
We'll conjure up our memories of these patriots who served as President, their achievements, how they made us feel as they called us to serve this country, to think of something larger than ourselves, to care for those who have less, to welcome those who are oppressed, to right wrongs rather than revel in them, to learn about the things we don't know and approach this life with some humility.
They are the ones who should be celebrated today.