Mara Liasson

And these are all government programs that prominently display the president's name.

And in the case of the Trump gold card, also his face and his signature, the gold card is part of a program that gives expedited immigration status to people who are willing to pay at least a million dollars.

Trump has suggested renaming Dulles Airport and Penn Station after himself.

And then in Florida, the state legislature has approved legislation to rename both a street and the Palm Beach Airport after Trump.

And that may not be a complete list.

Yes, so I looked into this a bit, and typically these sorts of honors are reserved for former presidents and mostly dead former presidents.

Yes.

I will say former President Joe Biden had a rest area in Delaware named after him.

That happened after he was out of office between the vice presidency and running for president.

There is a Biden train station that happened while he was vice president.

There is Obamacare, right?

But that is not what it was called.

It's the Affordable Care Act.

That is not just a nickname.

It was more of an insult that was hurled by the president's opponents until it stuck and kind of became the thing that everybody calls it.

So, yes, it is unprecedented.

It is unusual.

And I talked to Ruth Ben-Ghiat, who's a professor of history at NYU.

She's also notably author of a book called Strongman, Mussolini to the Present.

And she says that we are living through the building of a personality cult.