Of course he does.
He wants to be revered for a millenium by barbarians around the world as "The Great and Powerful Barack, Slayer of The Great Satan".
History will spit his name
Yeah....High Speed trains.....Mussolini made the trains run on time
Electric cars for the people.....Hitler won big with the new "peoples car"
Stalin, Mao, Castro, Pol Pot destroyed their respective middle classes.