"Most American presidents aspire to the kind of greatness that prompts future generations to name important things in their honor.Donald Trump isn't leaving it to future generations.As the first year of his second term wraps up, his Republican administration and allies have put his name on the U.S. Institute of Peace, the Kennedy Center performing arts venue and a new class of battleships."
""At no previous time in history have we consistently named things after a president who was still in office," said Jeffrey Engel, the David Gergen Director of the Center for Presidential History at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. "One might even extend that to say a president who is still alive. Those kind of memorializations are supposed to be just that - memorials to the passing hero.""
Multiple federal, local and commercial institutions have been named for Donald Trump during his presidency, including the U.S. Institute of Peace, the Kennedy Center performing arts venue and a new class of battleships. Private-branded financial and health initiatives such as "Trump Accounts," the TrumpRx website and the "Trump Gold Card" visa have also appeared alongside a transit corridor called the Trump Route and a road to Mar-a-Lago designated President Donald J. Trump Boulevard. Scholars say naming major public assets for a living, sitting president departs from historical practice, while the White House cites links between Trump-branded programs and policy deals.
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