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I'm curious how his supporters feel about him putting his name directly on things. To me, it feels like the kind of thing Americans detest in foreign dictators. It's not something American Presidents generally do.

(The name "Obamacare" was applied by Republicans, because "Affordable Care Act" doesn't elicit knee-jerk negative feelings.)

If supporters have changed their minds about that, cool; they're entitled to. But I'd be interested in whether they have any opinions positive, negative, or otherwise.

Not a Trump-supporter nor anti-Trump. It's fine to name a government program after the administration which built it, like the Eisenhower Interstate System or how Obamacare became a common name.

What detestable is when dictators consider themselves a supreme leader of a country, like in North Korea and Iran, and they put up statues and portraits all over the place to mark the entire country as theirs.

> how Obamacare became a common name

Just a reminder, "Obamacare" isn't the name of that program. It's the "Affordable Care Act". His administration didn't name it after him in any way. "Obamacare" is just a term the media invented.

I'm pretty sure "Obamacare" was coined by the Republicans, to deride it. At least that's how I remember it.

I remember when it was Romneycare.

Absolute scam

Supporters really wanted him to "run the government like a business".

With endless grift, embezzlement, pump and dumps, and marketing, they must be thrilled.

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