You got to give Donald Trump one thing, he likes his name on everything.
Trump Tower, Trump University, Trump International Hotel and in December, the board of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts voted to rename the institution the Trump Kennedy Center, after Trump board members and placed his minions on the board. Then it literally added his name to the outside of the building.
Last month, the State Department laughably added his name to a nearby building that housed a nonprofit organization he had attempted to dismantle. It’s now the Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace.
According to a column by John Taylor, from the Washington Post...
• A new class of Navy battleship is set to carry Trump’s name and perhaps some of his own design ideas.
• A government website launched last month for the Trump Gold Card. It was created as part of an expedited visa program, which would cost applicants $1 million after a $15,000 application fee.
• Another site, Trumprx.gov, is expected to go live this year. It’s part of Trump’s vision for the government to offer medicine — including weight-loss drugs — direct to consumer, at lower prices.
• There’s also the Trump accounts, an investment program for babies born during his second term. Each account would start with $1,000 and invest index funds.
• Giant banners featuring Trump’s name and face hang outside the U.S. Department of Agriculture (next to an Abraham Lincoln banner) and outside the Labor Department (next to a Theodore Roosevelt banner).
• If you buy a national parks pass for 2026, it has Trump’s portrait next to George Washington’s. Visitors have been warned against defacing the card. The National Park Service also added Trump’s birthday (which coincides with Flag Day) as a fee-free holiday, while removing Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Juneteenth and National Public Lands Day from that list.
• The U.S. is minting commemorative coins as part of the nation’s 250th anniversary celebration and may include a $1 Trump coin in the mix.
There have been other proposals by Republican politicians seeking to curry favor, such as renaming Dulles International Airport and even the D.C. area’s Metrorail system — which would be called the “Trump Train.” One asked for Trump to be carved into Mount Rushmore; others have called for more currency, such as Trump on the $100 bill or a $250 bill.
The administration insisted that he won’t name the White House ballroom after himself, even though many have assumed (and some have reported) he would...
Why yes, folks, it is everything Trump and more name insertions are in the making.
Of course, hanging huge portraits of Donald Trump from buildings is perhaps a reminder of questionable leaders of the past. Who can forget the Russians posting banners of Stalin, Saddam Hussein and Kim Jong Un.
By the way, did I mention these costly banners are taxpayer paid? Are these signs of a dictator? I hope all this rhetoric, intimidation and lies by the Trump administration comes to a close and Republicans with a conscience come to their senses; some already have.
