DAVID MARCUS: To burnish Trump's legacy, we need to stop naming things after him

In 1839, not agelong earlier President Donald Trump’s favourite president, Andrew Jackson, died, an admirer offered him an past roman sarcophagus, thought to person erstwhile held the remains of an emperor. Jackson, declined the offer, saying, "my enactment feelings and principles forbid it." There whitethorn beryllium a acquisition here.

Since Trump returned to the White House conscionable implicit a twelvemonth ago, it seems similar each azygous time thing caller is being named aft him. The Kennedy Center, the Institute of Peace building, a caller people of battleship, the Palm Beach airdrome and, who are we kidding, yet the White House ballroom.

Meanwhile, a elephantine banner featuring Trump’s stern features was placed connected the Department of Justice this week, not the archetypal nationalist gathering to beryllium adorned with the visage of the president glaring down astatine us.

Workers instal Donald J. Trump supra the existent signage connected the Kennedy Center connected Friday, Dec. 19, 2025, successful Washington. (Jacquelyn Martin/AP Photo)

It each seems to person gone a spot excessively far, but not for the reasons mostly cited. Instead, the axenic quantity of Trump-branded authorities buildings is starting to diminish the meaning and interaction of each of them.

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To beryllium clear, determination is nary hazard of a large governmental backlash from voters arsenic Trump’s sanction and representation get plastered astir Washington similar posters for a Dave Matthews Band concert. People who hatred him telephone it "Dear Leader" fascism and radical who emotion him takes selfies. Everyone other conscionable shrugs and says, "Well, that’s Trump."

Culturally, the question of whether naming everything aft yourself is crass oregon unseemly is subjective and a substance of idiosyncratic taste. As a precedence to voters, it falls determination beneath bully sensation successful music.

And aft all, each metropolis has its John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. boulevards, though, successful fairness, they were killed, which is simply a large vantage if your extremity is getting worldly named aft you.

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No, the existent question is whether this avalanche of eponymous enterprises are burnishing, oregon diminishing, the president’s legacy, and successful the far-seeing eyes of history, precise often, little is more.

I get it, Trump spent his full beingness making buildings turn retired of the crushed truthful helium could slap his sanction connected them, large arsenic beingness and usually successful gold. It is an admirable and precise quality impulse to permission thing lasting.

Image displayed down Trump showed an illustration of his caller "Trump class" of battleships. (Jessica Koscielniak/Reuters)

The president was precise bully astatine leaving his mark. Trust me, I lived successful New York City for 20 years, and you truly can’t miss it. But present it turns retired that each of that solid and alloy is flimsy and impermanent compared to Trump the man, who, accidental what you will, volition beryllium spoken of and debated for centuries.

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It is not successful flinty metallic oregon successful the acold integrative of carnal world wherever Trump’s existent bequest indispensable present beryllium forged. Rather, it is successful the invisible occurrence of the future, wherever the man, not the buildings volition beryllium judged.

Trump has the immortality shot, with his bold imaginativeness not conscionable successful America but astir the globe. He stands to beryllium the astir consequential fig of the aboriginal 21st century. We don’t request to sanction each region courthouse and 1-95 remainder halt aft him.

Throwing your sanction up everyplace successful elephantine fonts is really precisely the benignant of eccentric behaviour that gets mocked for thousands of years. Like Caligula threatening to marque his equine a consul of Rome, it volition beryllium utilized by galore to suggest narcissistic mania successful Trump, due to the fact that it already is utilized that way.

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Trump is ne'er going to beryllium the humble Abe Lincoln benignant with the shawl and aw shucks, "Nobody volition retrieve my speech," attitude. That's cool, his braggadocio is fun. But I don’t privation to unrecorded successful a satellite wherever I cheque my Trump ticker to spot if it's clip for a Trump burger connected my mode to Trump airport.

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As it turned out, "Old Hickory" Andrew Jackson would beryllium buried successful a plain conifer box, though the past treasure helium declined is inactive housed by the Smithsonian. And alternatively of paying homage to him done a marble masterpiece, we support small pictures of him successful our pockets.

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More importantly, our existent commandant successful main inactive draws connected Jackson’s spot and values to this precise day, fancy Roman sarcophagus oregon not.

The much things we sanction aft Trump, the little it means, and the much it feels forced, erstwhile it needn’t be. Nobody, including Trump, has to person america that helium is simply a fig of humanities magnitude. Seeing that advertised again and again starts to marque it each look a small spot cheapened.

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