Trump's name and face are showing up everywhere during his second term. Take a look.

Trump is the first sitting president to look connected the pass, which grants holders entree to complete 2,000 recreation sites operated by six national agencies, including the National Park Service, the US Forest Service, and the US Fish and Wildlife Service.

Trump's charismatic White House image appears alongside an image of George Washington.

The Center for Biological Diversity revenge a suit to artifact Trump's image from appearing connected the pass, alleging that national rule requires the America the Beautiful Pass to characteristic the winning photograph from the National Parks Foundation's yearly contest.

In a connection to The Hill, a White House spokesperson called the suit "frivolous" and said that the group "should beryllium thanking President Trump for enhancing opportunities for Americans to bask our beautiful nationalist parks."

In May 2026, House Democrats asked the tribunal to fto them support the lawsuit, which is pending successful national court, E&E News, a Politico publication, reported. The tribunal has not ruled connected the request.

The building now sounds "Donald J. Trump United States Institute of Peace."

The State Department's website says the institute was renamed "to bespeak the President's committedness to the origin of bid astir the world."

Secretary of State Marco Rubio publically backed the determination successful a December X post: "President Trump will beryllium remembered by history arsenic the President of Peace. It's clip our State Department show that," he wrote.

Trump later said successful February that he didn't propose the sanction but that Rubio was the 1 who projected it. Rubio's nonstop domiciled successful the renaming process has not been confirmed.

A State Department spokesperson did not reply questions astir whether Rubio played a domiciled successful the renaming, telling Business Insider: "President Trump is the President of Peace and the top dealmaker of each time. The President Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace reflects his committedness of utilizing diplomacy and dealmaking to beforehand bid astir the world."

The White House's $1.5 trillion defense fund for fiscal twelvemonth 2027 includes $65.8 cardinal to found the "Golden Fleet," a shipbuilding inaugural that includes constructing a caller people of US Navy battleships named aft Trump.

Then-Secretary of the Navy John Phelan said successful December 2025 that "the early Trump-class battleship, the USS Defiant, will beryllium the largest, deadliest, and astir versatile, and best-looking warship anyplace connected the world's oceans."

Navy fund documents show the USS Defiant is slated to beryllium procured successful 2028 and is projected to costs much than $17 billion.

In December 2025, the Kennedy Center's Trump-appointed committee of trustees voted to rename the center. Signage soon followed, reference "The Donald J. Trump and The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts."

"The unanimous ballot recognizes that the existent Chairman saved the institution from financial ruin and beingness destruction," Roma Daravi, the center's vice president of nationalist relations, told Business Insider successful a connection astatine the time. "The caller Trump Kennedy Center reflects the unequivocal bipartisan support for America's taste halfway for generations to come."

Democratic Rep. Joyce Beatty, an ex officio personnel of the Kennedy Center's committee of trustees, revenge a suit saying that the sanction alteration was unlawful. Judge Christopher R. Cooper ruled successful May 2026 that "Congress gave the Kennedy Center its name, and only Congress tin alteration it," and ordered the removal of Trump's sanction from the building, website, and different materials.

Since Trump's sanction was removed from the building, the destruction has remained covered pinch scaffolding and tarps.

Trump established the Trump Gold Card via executive bid successful September 2025; it has not been approved by Congress. The residence-by-investment programme says it provides foreigners pinch a pathway to get US citizenship "in grounds time," pinch a $1 cardinal gift to the US Department of Commerce and a $15,000 Department of Homeland Security processing interest aft inheritance approval.

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick told reporters successful February that the paper would switch the EB-5 migrant investor visa program. He said successful April that 1 personification had been approved.

CNBC reported successful May that 338 group had truthful acold applied for the Gold Card and 165 group person paid the processing fee.

In August 2025, Trump hosted Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan astatine the White House to motion a bid agreement, including the constitution of a caller transit corridor, and bilateral economical agreements pinch the US.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio met pinch Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan successful January and announced that the transit corridor would beryllium called the Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity.

Florida's authorities legislature voted to rename Southern Boulevard, a 4-mile roadworthy starring to Trump's Mar-a-Lago property successful Palm Beach, to President Donald J. Trump Boulevard successful July 2025. The caller sanction was officially unveiled astatine a dedication ceremonial astatine Mar-a-Lago connected January 16.

"When group spot that the beautiful motion is each lit up bully astatine nighttime and it says 'Donald J. Trump Boulevard,' they'll beryllium filled pinch pride, conscionable pride," the president said astatine the dedication. "Not successful maine — pridefulness successful our country, pridefulness successful this state, because our federation will beryllium stronger, richer, and much successful, which is what it is correct now."

TrumpRx.gov serves arsenic a directory for buying discounted medicine narcotics straight from manufacturers without the engagement of intermediaries — akin to Mark Cuban's Cost Plus Drugs model.

Trump has besides announced deals pinch Pfizer, AstraZeneca, Novo Nordisk, and Eli Lilly to little medicine supplier prices by eliminating drugstore use managers, aliases PBMs.

Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent said successful a connection that, successful grant of the US's 250th anniversary, Trump's signature would beryllium added to early insubstantial currency to admit the president's activity "toward unprecedented economical growth, lasting dollar dominance, and fiscal spot and stability."

Only the signatures of US Treasury officials person appeared connected insubstantial currency, making Trump's signature arsenic a sitting president a historical first.

The executive order, titled "Promoting Retirement-Savings Access for American Workers," provides eligible lower-income workers pinch entree to retirement plans if their employers don't supply them, positive matched national contributions of up to $1,000 a year.

The programme builds connected the Saver's Match of the SECURE 2.0 Act, which was passed successful 2022 nether the Biden administration.

The executive bid besides establishes TrumpIRA.gov arsenic the online level for enrollment successful these private-sector status plans. The tract is not yet active, pinch a statement that sounds "Coming 2027."

The White House estimated that the inaugural would grow entree to status plans to 56 cardinal Americans.

"For example, if a 25-year-old who is eligible for a Saver's Match programme invests conscionable $165 a period nether the matching national contributions, they will person an estimated $465,000 successful their relationship by the clip they're 65 years old," Trump said astatine the signing of the executive bid successful April. "In different words, they'll beryllium rich. And there's thing awfully bully astir that."

At a property convention successful May, Bessent said that the Treasury Department was "prepared" to people a $250 measure featuring Trump's face successful grant of America's 250th day — but Congress would person to walk authorities to alteration the rule to make it possible.

"As Treasury Secretary, I person 2 mandates for US currency. At present, that nary surviving personification tin beryllium connected US currency, and the rate must say, 'In God We Trust,'" Bessent said. "Right now, location is projected authorities — successful beforehand of the House, successful beforehand of the Senate — to alteration the first request truthful that a surviving person, Donald J. Trump, could beryllium connected the $250 bill."

US rule dictates that "only the image of a deceased individual whitethorn look connected United States rate and securities."

A US Treasury spokesperson antecedently told Business Insider that the commemorative Trump coin for America's 250th day would beryllium produced successful accordance pinch the Circulating Collectible Coin Redesign Act of 2020, which authorized "$1 coins pinch designs emblematic of the United States Semiquincentennial during the one-year play opening January 1, 2026."

However, arsenic Business Insider's Katherine Li reported, the Circulating Collectible Coin Redesign Act of 2020 besides states that "no caput and shoulders image aliases bust of immoderate person, surviving aliases dead, and nary image of a surviving personification whitethorn beryllium included successful the creation connected the reverse of specified coins."

Still, the US Commission of Fine Arts, whose members were appointed by Trump, approved a creation featuring his image earlier this year. The type unveiled successful July differs slightly, including a gold-colored decorativeness alternatively of coagulated gold.

The US Mint says the $1 coin will beryllium disposable successful the fall, on pinch different semiquincentennial designs. It's unclear if the Trump coin creation will beryllium successfully challenged successful court; a national suit successful Oregon was voluntarily dismissed successful July soon aft the last creation was unveiled, Reason Magazine reported.

A surviving president has been featured connected US rate erstwhile before, erstwhile a Calvin Coolidge coin was created for America's 150th day successful 1926, NPR reported.

The "Patriot Passports" were initially only disposable successful personification astatine the Washington Passport Agency successful grant of America's 250th anniversary.

At the extremity of July, the State Department announced that it would nutrient much Trump passports "in consequence to overwhelming demand," offering an further 250,000 astatine passport offices successful 19 states, by assignment and in-person only.

Parents aliases guardians tin unfastened a Trump Account for their kid done the Internal Revenue Service. For each kid calved betwixt 2025 and 2028, the US Treasury will deposit $1,000 into the account. Parents aliases guardians tin past adhd up to $5,000 a year.

At the motorboat arena successful the Oval Office connected July 6, Trump said that calling the inaugural Trump Accounts "was not my idea," but that he was "very proud" to person his sanction connected them.

"They said it'll waste amended if your name's connected it," he said.

The Tennessee General Assembly passed a rule renaming the Douglas Lake Bridge to the President Donald J. Trump Bridge successful April 2025.

The unveiling ceremonial successful July was attended by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, GOP Tennessee politicians Sen. Marsha Blackburn and Rep. Tim Burchett, and members of the Trump family, ABC connection WATE reported.

At the ceremony, authorities Rep. Jeremy Faison said that he and authorities Rep. Jessie Seal chose to sanction the span aft Trump because the president "is worthy of america honoring him."

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a rule enacting the sanction alteration for the West Palm Beach airdrome successful March, and signs welcoming passengers to President Donald J. Trump International Airport went up successful July.

While the airport's signage and branding person been updated, its International Air Transport Association, aliases IATA, codification will stay "PBI" until it transitions to "DJT" connected August 18.

The sanction alteration is estimated to costs $5.5 million, pinch $2.75 cardinal allocated from authorities funding.

Talia Lakritz is simply a Life analogous astatine Business Insider covering authorities and powerfulness done a manner and ocular storytelling lens. She has reported from the White House arsenic good arsenic subject installations, mansions, and museums crossed the country, bringing readers wrong the people, places, and systems that power American life done immersive features.Previously, she wrote for The New York Jewish Week and SciShow Space.Talia holds a BA successful English pinch a attraction successful Creative Writing from Barnard College of Columbia University and ordination arsenic an interfaith curate from One Spirit Learning Alliance. She hopes to 1 time sojourn each 50 states and each 14 nationalist statesmanlike libraries.Talia tin beryllium found on LinkedIn, Instagram, and X.Politics and power:

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