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It's the media buzz meter with Howard Kurtz.

Do you have the impression that Donald Trump likes to put his name on things, say the Kennedy Center,

even though the tradition in this country is that buildings and monuments and so forth are named after.

People who are deceased, say the Kennedy Center.

Well, the Washington Post drops this little bomb saying that the administration is pushing for a $250 bill to celebrate the country's birthday that would feature a portrait

of Donald Trump. So the Washington Post actually spoke to the artist who did a mock-up of this,

and this artist said he had spoken with the president about it. This artist, British painter,

said he likes to call me his favorite British artist, who's done portraits of Queen Elizabeth

and others.

No living person has appeared on U.S. currency since 1866 when it was outlawed after the image of a mid-level treasury bureaucrat showed up on a five-cent note, legislation that would

allow Trump to appear on a $250 bill introduced in Congress last year, but hasn't gone anywhere.

All right, let's get down to business.

Story one.

The war is back on.

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