Mara Liasson

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.

So as I was doing research for this story, I found an interview that he did with Larry King on CNN.

I think it was maybe it was 1999.

It was a really long time ago.

And Larry King was like, you put your name on everything.

Are you running for president?

Are you going to put your name on the White House?

And President then businessman Trump said, no, I promise I will not put my name on the White House.

But he is certainly putting his stamp on the White House and on Washington, D.C.

more broadly.

And I'm Mara Liason, senior national political correspondent.

Greg, unless Trump wants to leave most of the rulers in Iran the same, just like Venezuela, get rid of the lead singer, but the band keeps playing.

The president was asked by Jonathan Karl of ABC if he had people in mind who could be the next leaders of Iran.

And he said yes.

I think he said he had three in particular in mind, but they were all killed in the bombing of the supreme leader.

So it sounded like the right hand doesn't know what the left hand is doing, and there wasn't much of a clear strategy.