Mara Liasson

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.

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.