What did Donald Trump do today?

He tried to put his name on at least three more things.

There are hundreds of things named for Donald Trump: buildings, hotels, bankrupted casinos, a defunct airline, discontinued commercial products from designer sneakers to frozen steaks, a fake university, and a fraudulent charity, among many other things. There are even two of his own children named after him—Donald Trump Jr., and Barron Trump, whose first name appears to be an homage to Trump's alter ego John Barron. But what almost all of them have in common is that Trump named them himself. 

But the list of public places in the United States named for Trump where other people had a say is as follows: two streets in Florida, a rural county courthouse in Nevada, and this short stretch of highway in the panhandle of Oklahoma. This compares pretty poorly with, for example, former President Obama.

 

Since returning to office, Trump has given up waiting for people to give him the honors he thinks he deserves, and has decreed that his name be added to the Kennedy Center (which he has shut down in anger), the United States Institute for Peace (which he first illegally seized and then vandalized), a watered-down version of the 529 Savings Plan, and a pay-to-skip-the-line scheme for permanent residency.

Today, he tried to add at least three more items to that list. The first is TrumpRx, a sort of limited version of commercial services like GoodRx that provide bulk discounts on drugs for consumers without health insurance. In fact, it is the private company GoodRx under the hood, which is why its prices aren't any lower. People who do have health insurance won't benefit from it, although thanks to Trump's refusal to fund the ACA in the current budget, that number is going up sharply.

He also tried to get his name put on Dulles Airport and New York's Penn Station, according to reporting today, in a deal he floated with Congressional Democrats. In exchange, he promised to release funds for a long-awaited NYC tunnel project that he shut down in an attempt to get political revenge on Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY). 

Trump's offer was rejected. 

Why does this matter?

• Using the power of the presidency to name public facilities after yourself is the same kind of pathetic as using your power as the owner of a golf course to declare yourself the winner of a golf tournament you didn't play in.