Scott Detrow

That was Trump last month at the newly renamed Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace.

I had nothing to do with it.

I swear I didn't.

I had no idea.

He also claimed he was surprised when his name was added to the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, where he is chairman of the Board of Trustees.

Giant portraits of him hang from the headquarters of the Department of Labor and the Department of Agriculture.

and the Department of Justice.

Ruth Ben-Ghiat, a professor of history, told NPR that what Trump is doing mirrors what autocrats have done for a century.

Last week, a much smaller tribute to Trump made news.

The U.S.

Commission of Fine Arts voted to approve the design for a new commemorative coin.

Consider this.

President Trump's likeness may soon be on a U.S.

coin.

It is another sharp break with American tradition.

From NPR, I'm Scott Detrow.

There are presidents on our coins.

Abraham Lincoln is on the penny, Thomas Jefferson on the nickel, Franklin D. Roosevelt on the dime, George Washington on the quarter.

And now the Commission of Fine Arts has approved a design featuring a portrait of Donald Trump.

Perhaps it's not surprising since the president fired all the commissioners last year and installed his own slate.