I'm Charlie Sykes.

Welcome back to the To the Contrary podcast.

I am joined by Professor Nicholas Grossman, who is an expert in all things political.

Nicholas, thank you for coming back.

I appreciate it.

Hi. Great to be back with you. You know, where should we start today? I wanted to start with the

fact that over the weekend we found out that Donald Trump wants the new commanders NFL stadium named after

him because everything has to be named after, you know, Trump Stadium. He's going to have to have a,

he's going to have a coin with his, you know, his face on both sides of it. But it's interesting. He goes to the game, the Lions Commanders game. And he is, I think the phrase would be roundly booed by the crowd. So I'm not sure how that works. Is there any, is there any sports stadium anywhere in America that's named after a living politician, by the way?

Can you think of any?

After a living politician?

Not that I can think of.

Yeah.

I mean, there was RFK Stadium, though I think they've changed that name.

But that, right, after somebody who died in honor of them.

So, no, not a living politician.

That's like a monument to ego. And most of them do not a little bit. And this felt like the kind of the weekend where he was sitting around the White House just throwing spaghetti up against the wall like, hey, 50 year mortgages. What could go wrong there? I'm going to send out $2,000 checks to people,

et cetera. And so there was a kind of a, and also we had this, this, these suboptimal optics

of yet another one of the lavish Mar-a-Lago parties, the same day that he was going to the Supreme

Court to shut down

snap benefits for hungry people. I mean, it was this Marie Antoinette perfect moment coming after

the elections last week, and it kind of felt like they had really lost the plot. And then, of course,

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