Mara Liasson

to President Trump and that what he is doing mirrors what autocrats around the world have done for a century.

Yeah.

Traditionally, the White House was supposed to be humble.

It was supposed to represent a country of laws, not men.

It was supposed to symbolize that America was different, that it wasn't Versailles.

However, the ballroom is something he wants to be opulent.

And that is one of the objections that architects and others have is that like this isn't really what the White House was intended to be.

His White House, when I asked them about this, said that the president is really just focused on saving our country and not garnering recognition.

This

No wonder people would want to name things after him.

And we can talk about whether it's other people who had the idea or whether it's President Trump who has had the idea.

Yes.

I think that maybe coins aren't as big a deal as they were 100 years ago when they were melting down coins with Calvin Coolidge's face on it.

But I do think that, as Mara says, there's a large body of polling that shows that

A majority of Americans feel like President Trump is not focused on the things that matter the most to them.

And, you know, he's constantly posting pictures of like new new renderings of the ballroom or, oh, look at this new statue I put up.

And some amount of this, I think you could chalk up to being legacy oriented and not wanting to leave things to chance because history might not remember him as fondly as he wants to be remembered.

Yeah.

But if you put your name on things now, then you don't have to worry about history.

So if you watch the president's State of the Union address multiple times, he said, Trump Rx.