According to a report from The Daily Beast, Donald Trump asked close aides what he had to do to get an airport named after himself as part of his legacy. It would be safe to say that Trump’s legacy will be the over four hundred thousand Americans that died on his watch, but OK. One source told the news outlet that Trump has mentioned that “no president” wants an American airport with a bad reputation or crumbling infrastructure named after them. The report stated that another source “said that Trump had, at one point since the 2020 election, offhandedly asked what kind of “paperwork” was necessary to get an airport named after a former president.”
At the same time, Trump attempted a coup to overturn the election results after being soundly defeated by Joe Biden, and it appears that the former reality show star actually knew his time in the White House was coming to a close.
Oh, it’s not just an airport, but a Navy aircraft carrier, too:
“Another individual close to Trump told The Daily Beast that they could recall the president mentioning at least a couple times since early 2018 his desire for having a national or international airport in the United States named after “Donald J. Trump,” and that he hoped there would be an aggressive organized effort to do so akin to the push to name the Washington, D.C.-area national airport after President Ronald Reagan,” the outlet reports. “This source also said that they’d once heard President Trump ramble about what kind of Navy aircraft carrier he’d want commissioned and christened as the “USS Donald Trump” in the years following his time in office. (He may never get one of those, either, though.)”
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I don’t know, you guys, but having an airport named after a man that’s tried to throw out millions of legally cast ballots doesn’t seem like a good thing to do. Trump’s brand is so toxic that I imagine that in years to come, there won’t be any buildings left with the former president’s name on them. After all, that’s already been happening, and that was before he tried to overturn the election results. Maybe they should name a food bank after Trump since they’re being hammered due to the pandemic the former president mishandled: The Donald J. Trump Food Lines.
You can read the full report here.
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