Can Trump really be this insecure or this stupid?

Can Trump really be this insecure or this stupid?

It can’t really be true that the president told Chuck Schumer that he would release billions of frozen dollars for a New York infrastructure project if Schumer would get the Dulles Airport and Penn Station to be named after him. What is it with all this naming stuff? He had the board of the Kennedy Center that he had put in place while naming himself president of the board to rename the Center the Donald J. Trump and John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts. I thought you only put “memorial” on something if the person were dead. But he is shutting down the Center for two years saying it is for repairs when everyone knows it is because they are having difficulty booking acts to play there. 

Trump just loves to see his name on things. If its his buildings, golf courses, hotels or casinos that’s one thing but he has put his name on a new class of warships, Trump Accounts and Trump Rx. All this is sheer ego running amok. I am certain that we will see the name coming down once he leaves office, unless it was put there by an act of congress. I was surprised that his unilaterally trying to rename the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America wasn’t the Gulf of Trump instead. Trump even wants his name on the new stadium being built for the Washington Redskins (er Commanders). How about the Trump Gold Card?

Politicians curry his favor by proposing to name stuff after him. One proposed June 14 as “Trump’s Birthday and Flag Day.” Another introduced legislation that calls for Washington Metro to be the “Trump Train.” Still another wants to rename Palm Beach International Airport as Donald J. Trump International Airport. Then there is the Trump Institute of Peace which replaced the United States Institute of Peace (USIP). He wants to add his picture to $1 coins set to be minted in celebration of the United States’ 250th anniversary in 2026. He has put his name on the ballroom addition taking the place of the East Wing of the White House (Trump’s House?). Remember Trump University?

Bernie Sanders has introduced legislation barring the naming of any federal building or land after a sitting president. I wonder what the vote in the House would be on such a bill? Would it even pass the Senate? Sanders said “If the American people want to name buildings after a president who is deceased, that’s fine. That’s what we do. But to use federal buildings to enhance your own position very much sounds like the ‘Great Leader’ mentality of North Korea, and that is not something that I think the American people want.” Bernie is just taking a backhanded swipe at the president comparing him to an autocratic dictator. Trump, though he may aspire to be like Kim Jong Un, just is self absorbed with a boundless self-obsession showing a outsized, but very fragile, ego. Am I the only one who after seeing the president’s name plastered on everything is starting to view it as graffiti?

Just to be curious, I wondered how much stuff was named for Trump. AI almost blew up. AI couldn’t give me a specific number because of all the namings in progress. So I went to Wikipedia and the list was 22 pages long. Well be assured, no way I am naming this blog after him (since he passed me over to name someone else chairman of the Fed).

There is a new section of I-95 being proposed to be built in South Carolina and some local politicians suggested that it will be named the Donald J. Trump (Memorial) Highway in hopes of getting federal funding. One of the supporters said “He seems to like his name on things. And if it makes a difference, I’m all about supporting it. I’d just like to have a road paved.”

Well the chances that Trump might support this South Carolina project took a hit when its Senator Tim Scott was critical of a video that the president posted which showed the Obamas depicted as monkeys. Scott said that he was “Praying it was fake because it’s the most racist thing I’ve seen out of this White House. The President should remove it.” The president made some lame excuse that he hadn’t seen the video and that it was posted by a White House aide. He said that he wasn’t going to apologize and the aide would not be fired. His press secretary Karoline (Lying) Leavitt was also defiant saying “This is from an internet meme video depicting President Trump as the King of the Jungle and Democrats as characters from the Lion King. Please stop the fake outrage and report on something today that actually matters to the American public.”

Fake outrage my rear end! I am outraged at the sheer stupidity of it all.