The US president\u2019s relentless self-aggrandizement spree continues amid hypocrisy and shifting explanations<\/p>\n
As a real estate developer, Donald Trump<\/a> built his empire on ostentatious displays of wealth, substantial tax breaks<\/a> \u2013 and lots of free publicity. As president, he has deployed the power of the state to expand his personal brand, adding his name<\/a> to the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the US Institute of Peace, a class of new navy warships, and even investment accounts for millions of children.<\/p>\n Trump is now eyeing yet <\/strong>more grandiose targets in his self-aggrandizement spree. He wants Congress to rename New York\u2019s Penn Station and Washington Dulles international airport in his honor. But there\u2019s a catch: Trump reportedly<\/a> told Chuck Schumer, the Senate minority leader, that he would unfreeze billions of dollars in federal funding for a major infrastructure project in the north-east \u2013 if Schumer supported renaming the two sites.<\/p>\n Mohamad Bazzi is director of the Center for Near Eastern Studies, and a journalism professor, at New York University<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The US president\u2019s relentless self-aggrandizement spree continues amid hypocrisy and shifting explanations As a real estate developer, Donald Trump built his empire on ostentatious displays of wealth, substantial tax breaks \u2013 and lots of free publicity. As president, he has deployed the power of the state to expand his personal brand, adding his name to … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}