Trump gets stark history lesson over monument obsession from expert

President Donald Trump has spent much of his second term so far scrambling to add his name, or some other mark, onto America's national monuments, from the Kennedy Center to the White House, to even replacing Martin Luther King Jr. Day with his own birthday for free admission into national parks.

It's an impulse shared by many dictators and autocrats around the world, wrote Keith Richburg for The Washington Post, as they all seek to leave a permanent manifestation of their own will and their impact on the nation.