Mara Liasson

Oh, but it wasn't my idea to name it.

The Trump accounts for kids.

Oh, that wasn't my idea.

It was somebody else.

They came to me.

They said it would sell better if it had your name on it.

And I was like, well, I guess I'll give it to you for free.

It's sort of like a running joke he has.

And as relates to the Kennedy Center, he has claimed it wasn't his idea.

But it really strains credulity because he is the chairman of the board of the Kennedy Center, the board that voted to put his name on the building.

The lettering was available shockingly quickly after this decision was made.

And weeks earlier, he had and, you know, this is a trend with him.

He had joked about that very outcome.

He was at the Trump Institute of Peace at the time, which also was renamed, and referred to an event that was going to be at the Trump Kennedy Center.

Oh, excuse me, at the Kennedy Center.

And, you know, like he often sort of jokes about things that he wants and then people make it happen.

If you look in Congress right now, there are any number of bills to put his name and face on Mount Rushmore, Dulles Airport, anything you want.

And part of that is just trying to curry favor with the president, trying to show that they support him the most.

And.

if you look historically, that is part of a broader pattern of when you have a leader, as Mara likes to talk about, who is a personalist, who makes decisions based on how he feels, then people will want to do things to curry favor with the leader.