House Republicans last week brought forward legislation to rename Washington Dulles International Airport after Donald Trump. In response, Democratic lawmakers have introduced legislation to rename a Miami federal prison near Mar-a-Lago after the former president.
During an MSNBC interview on Sunday, Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-VA), one of the bill’s sponsors, said that “if Republicans really want to honor Trump,” they should rename the prison after him because he might be “visiting soon.”
“There's a nice federal penitentiary right near Mar-a-Lago, and I just thought for a guy who's now got 88 criminal indictments pending — criminal — plus two major civil penalty trials that have already been resolved, costing him about a half a billion dollars, I think it's only fitting that if Republicans really want to honor Donald Trump, the most appropriate way to do that is to name a federal prison he might be visiting soon after Donald J. Trump,” Connolly said.
“Gerry, you may get the Trump endorsement for that,” Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) added. “I don't think there's a building he wouldn't want his name on.”
