{"id":2116,"date":"2026-08-18T10:11:29","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T10:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/commercialrelocationpros.com\/?p=2116"},"modified":"2026-08-18T10:11:29","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T10:11:29","slug":"trump-is-putting-his-face-on-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commercialrelocationpros.com\/?p=2116","title":{"rendered":"Trump Is Putting His Face On Everything"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>\n<p>W<span>e Americans remember<\/span> our presidents in all sorts of ways, with monuments and statues, on coins and street signs. Another thing we do is wait\u2014we wait until a president is safely out of office, or dead, before we bestow such honors.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/commercialrelocationpros.com\/?p=2114\">What Trump Officials Mean by \u201cNever\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump has bent many democratic traditions, but this one, he\u2019s discarded altogether. Trump has been putting his name on buildings since before most Americans were born. He built his political career atop his personal brand, and much of his second term has been defined by an obsession with leaving his mark. The result is something entirely new in the nation\u2019s history. The more you look, the more you see Trump\u2019s face, name, or signature all around you\u2014on a government building, infrastructure project, banknote, taxpayer-funded website, or official document.<\/p>\n<nav>\n<div>completedin the workson trump\u2019s wish list<\/div>\n<\/nav>\n<section>\n<h2>COMPLETED<\/h2>\n<p><span>Trump\u2019s face has appeared swiftly<\/span>, often with little warning\u2014and nowhere more so than in the nation\u2019s capital. To find a comparable leader so fixated on the proliferation of his image, the historians I spoke with reached across oceans and time: The face of Hafez al-Assad, who ruled Syria for nearly three decades, was printed on children\u2019s schoolbook covers; Mussolini covered Rome\u2019s Palazzo Braschi with a display featuring his head<em>.<\/em> Obviously Mao Zedong comes to mind. This creation of a cult of personality is partly how strongmen have sought to erase memories of their predecessors and \u201cinsert themselves into the social fabric,\u201d Ruth Ben-Ghiat, a historian of authoritarianism at NYU, told me. There may not be a perfect comparison, but past regimes offer clues, the scholars said, about how a leader\u2019s ubiquity can help inure citizens to broader shifts in their relationship to their government.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<h2>IN THE WORKS<\/h2>\n<p><span>The Kennedy Center <\/span><span>debacle<\/span> offered the president a reminder: \u201cLetters can easily be taken off of the surface of buildings,\u201d Lawrence Vale, an MIT urban-planning professor who studies capital-city design and national identity, told me. Come 2029, if a Democrat wins back the White House, it\u2019s difficult to imagine the Trump-faced banners and paintings remaining up for long. Other things\u2014multimillion-dollar monuments, travel documents, money in circulation\u2014would be far more challenging to undo.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/commercialrelocationpros.com\/?p=2112\">The Incoherence of Trump\u2019s Past Week of Foreign Policy<\/a><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<h2>ON TRUMP\u2019S WISH LIST<\/h2>\n<p><span>Trump\u2014and those in his orbit looking to flatter him<\/span>\u2014will almost certainly propose more places for his name and face to appear. The president could grow dissatisfied with having his name on just one airport, especially one that serves fewer than 10 million people a year. Or the new football stadium coming to Washington might grab his attention. And, of course, there is his obsession with being on Mount Rushmore. Many ideas that seemed improbable when they were first introduced have since been carried out.<\/p>\n<p>T<span>he tenures of previous world leaders<\/span> obsessed with imparting their images onto history have yielded troves of artifacts\u2014and left successors with the question of what to do with them all.<\/p>\n<p>As Hungary\u2019s Communist era came to an end, the government confronted one such quandary. Budapest\u2019s new government didn\u2019t want to melt statues down or discard them, so in 1993, it deposited dozens of them in a park 20 minutes outside the city center. In one sense, the park became an oversize storage unit for junk the Hungarian public no longer needed; in another, it was a tourist attraction in its own right\u2014a memorial to the way that a past regime had sought to memorialize itself.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em><small>Image sources: COMPLETED: Kevin Carter \/ Getty; Kevin Carter \/ Getty; Kevin Carter \/ Getty; Kevin Carter \/ Getty; Anna Moneymaker \/ Getty; Kevin Dietsch \/ Getty; Kevin Carter \/ Getty; Andrew Leyden \/ Getty; Saul Loeb \/ AFP \/ Getty; Doug Mills \/ <\/small><\/em><small>The New York Times<\/small><em><small> \/ Redux; Doug Mills \/ <\/small><\/em><small>The New York Times<\/small><em><small> \/ Redux; Chip Somodevilla \/ Getty; Demetrius Freeman \/ <\/small><\/em><small>The Washington Post<\/small><em><small> \/ Getty; Doug Mills \/ <\/small><\/em><small>The New York Times<\/small><em><small> \/ Redux; Doug Mills \/ <\/small><\/em><small>The New York Times<\/small><em><small> \/ Redux; Andrew Harnik \/ Getty; Doug Mills \/ <\/small><\/em><small>The New York Times<\/small><em><small> \/ Redux; Doug Mills \/ <\/small><\/em><small>The New York Times<\/small><em><small> \/ Redux; Celal Gunes \/ Anadolu \/ Getty; <\/small><\/em><em><small>travel.state.gov<\/small><\/em><em><small> \/ U.S. Department of State; National Park Service; <\/small><\/em><em><small>trumpcard.gov<\/small><\/em><em><small>; Brendan Smialowski \/ AFP \/ Getty; <\/small><\/em><em><small>trumpaccounts.gov<\/small><\/em><em><small>; <\/small><\/em><em><small>trumpira.gov<\/small><\/em><em><small>; <\/small><\/em><em><small>trumprx.gov<\/small><\/em><em><small>; <\/small><\/em><em><small>nps.gov<\/small><\/em><em><small>; @realDonaldTrump \/ Truth Social; Saul Loeb \/ AFP \/ Getty; Chandan Khanna \/ AFP \/ Getty; George Walker IV \/ AP; Andrew Caballero-Reynolds \/ AFP \/ Getty; Amy Beth Bennett \/ <\/small><\/em><small>South Florida Sun Sentinel<\/small><em><small> \/ TNS \/ Getty; IN THE WORKS: Helen H. Richardson \/ MediaNews Group \/ <\/small><\/em><small>The Denver Post<\/small><em><small> \/ Getty; Thomas Peipert \/ AP; Commission of Fine Arts; Jim Bourg \/ Redux; Andrew Harnik \/ Getty; Salwan Georges \/ <\/small><\/em><small>The Washington Post<\/small><em><small> \/ Getty; McCreary Architects PLLC 2025; AP Graphic \/ Treasury Department; Kent Nishimura \/ AFP \/ Getty; Andrew Caballero-Reynolds \/ AFP \/ Getty; U.S. Air Force. ON TRUMP\u2019S WISH LIST: @realDonaldTrump \/ Truth Social; Courtesy of Washington Commanders; Courtesy of Dulles Airport.\u00a0<\/small><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/commercialrelocationpros.com\/?p=2110\">The Loneliness Crisis Comes to Campus<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Atlantic covers news, politics, culture, technology, health, and more, through its articles, podcasts, videos, and flagship magazine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2115,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Trump Is Putting His Face On Everything - 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