# The current second Trump administration: a compendium of horrors **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [November 6, 2024, 9:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774 "2024-11-06T09:17:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 168
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2026, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/3346 "2026-03-31T00:55:31Z")
Ptoblem here is trump wants _every_ airport renamed for him. They can’t all be DJT nor [his f-ing name] international airport". ---
**Author:** ![aurora\_maire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aurora_maire/32/328_2.png) [@aurora\_maire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aurora_maire)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2026, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/3347 "2026-03-31T01:07:34Z")
> [@from PhillyGuy's link](#): > > A bill to rename Palm Beach International Airport as “Donald J. Trump International Airport” was signed by Governor Ron DeSantis and will take effect July 1. What a coincidence! Trump recently applied for trademarks for “Donald J. Trump International Airport” and “DJT”. [Inside Trump airport trademark bid: Pet clothing, plastic socks, watches, more](https://www.axios.com/2026/03/30/trump-trademark-airport-pet-clothing-perfume-plastic-socks) ---
**Author:** ![PhillyGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ed655f/32.png) [@PhillyGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PhillyGuy)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2026, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/3348 "2026-03-31T01:18:42Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Ptoblem here is trump wants _every_ airport renamed for him. They can’t all be DJT nor [his f-ing name] international airport". A bill was introduced in the U.S. House, in January 2025, to rename Dulles to [Donald J. Trump International Airport](https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/691). So long as the Senate filibuster remains, it has no chance of passage. I have to correct my last post, when I said no living national leaders had airports named after them, If you count Vatican City as a nation, I should mention that a Polish airport was named after John Paul II while Pope. And several U.S. airports have been named after former presidents while living, including Jerry Ford, Bill Clinton, and Bush the Elder. These renamings may have been of questionable wisdom, but are nothing like the badness of naming stuff after the current leader. The Wilmington Delaware train station was named after Joe Biden while he was the serving vice-president. Biden, unlike Trump, was no dictator, but naming a federal facility after a currently serving politician is always wrong. ---
**Author:** ![PhillyGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ed655f/32.png) [@PhillyGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PhillyGuy)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2026, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/3349 "2026-03-31T01:57:10Z")
In anticipation that Trumpers may start using the 2011 “Joseph R. Biden, Jr., Railroad Station” renaming event as a justification for Trump’s cult of personality renamings: After a bit of googling, it appears to me that the renaming of Wilmington Station was more or less honorary, with no big signs added or removed or covered over, with most schedules ignoring the name, and with the renaming being virtually forgotten by the time Biden became president. It was a bad move for Biden to allow such a thing, but nothing like putting Trump’s name on the dollar coin, and the complete renaming of the Kennedy Center, Palm Beach Airport, U.S. Institute of Peace, Southern Blvd (now President Donald Trump Boulevard), etc. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2026, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/3350 "2026-03-31T03:19:49Z")
> [@PhillyGuy](#): > > A bill was introduced in the U.S. House, in January 2025, to rename Dulles to [Donald J. Trump International Airport](https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/691). So long as the Senate filibuster remains, it has no chance of passage. They can call it Dulles-Trump as long as they move the hyphen one letter to the right. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2026, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/3351 "2026-03-31T11:49:50Z")
Ha! It’s funny how the pronunciation is identical. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2026, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/3352 "2026-03-31T12:39:21Z")
Of course the real point of the trademarking is that then the airport will be forced to pay trump money every day for the use of his name. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2026, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/3353 "2026-03-31T14:21:55Z")
> [@PhillyGuy](#): > > I also checked AI to see if an airport was ever named after a living national leader before. As far as they know, the answer is no, Clinton? > **[Clinton National Airport](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinton_National_Airport)** > > Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport (IATA: LIT, ICAO: KLIT, FAA LID: LIT), also known as Adams Field, is a joint civil-military airport on the east side of Little Rock, Arkansas, United States. It is operated by the Little Rock Municipal Airport Commission. > The second largest commercial airport in Arkansas, it served more than 2.1 million passengers in the year spanning from March 2009 through to February 2010. While Clinton National Airport does not have direct international passenger ... ---
**Author:** ![DWMarch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwmarch/32/1010_2.png) [@DWMarch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DWMarch)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2026, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/3354 "2026-03-31T14:24:25Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Of course the real point of the trademarking is that then the airport will be forced to pay trump money every day for the use of his name. “Brought to you by Carl’s Jr!” (life imitating Idiocracy again, for any who did not catch the reference) ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2026, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/3355 "2026-03-31T16:56:25Z")
> [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > Clinton? Though, it was renamed for them _after_ Bill left office. ---
**Author:** ![PhillyGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ed655f/32.png) [@PhillyGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PhillyGuy)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2026, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/3356 "2026-03-31T17:00:13Z")
> [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > Clinton? My bad. I did post a correction about an hour later. But checking some more, I see that even that correction was wrong. I think the best point of comparison is cases where an airport, in the country a head of state (or head of government) ruled, was renamed with the name of that ruler while they were in power. I have now found two prior examples where the ruler was still in power. Saddam Hussein’s regime renamed Baghdad International Airport [to Saddam International Airport](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baghdad_International_Airport#Expansion) in 1982. Robert Mugabe’s regime renamed Harare International Airport to [Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Gabriel_Mugabe_International_Airport) on November 9, 2017. By the way, Mugabe was deposed about two weeks later. The point of course is that this is something dictators do. ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2026, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/3357 "2026-03-31T17:45:59Z")
> [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > > [@PhillyGuy](#): > > > > also checked AI to see if an airport was ever named after a living national leader before. As far as they know, the answer is no, > > Clinton? And IAH before that. > **[George Bush Intercontinental Airport](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Bush_Intercontinental_Airport)** > > George Bush Intercontinental Airport (IATA: IAH, ICAO: KIAH, FAA LID: IAH) is the main international airport in Houston, Texas, United States, serving the Greater Houston metropolitan area. Initially named Houston Intercontinental Airport upon its opening in 1969, it was renamed in honor of George H. W. Bush, the 41st president of the United States and a resident of Houston, in 1997. It is also commonly called Houston International Airport or George Bush International Airport. > Located about 2... And Reagan National: > **[Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan_Washington_National_Airport)** > > Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (IATA: DCA, ICAO: KDCA, FAA LID: DCA) is a public airport in Arlington County, Virginia, United States, five miles (eight kilometers; four nautical miles) from Washington, D.C. The closest airport to the nation's capital, it is one of two airports owned by the federal government and operated by the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority (MWAA) that serve the Washington metropolitan area; the other is Dulles International Airport (IAD), located abou... But none of these were renamed when the honoree was still in office. ETA: didn’t see the followup with the relevant Saddam Hussein and Robert Mugabe comparisons. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2026, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/3358 "2026-03-31T17:59:59Z")
> [@SunUp](#): > > Saddam Hussein and Robert Mugabe comparisons. If one is known by the company they keep, trump is wannabe in company that suits him well. ---
**Author:** ![PhillyGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ed655f/32.png) [@PhillyGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PhillyGuy)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2026, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/3359 "2026-03-31T18:14:32Z")
I found one more airport renaming example. Now I think I’ll stop searching 😀 Astana International Airport was renamed Nursultan Nazarbayev International Airport in 2017. Nazarbayev had won 98 percent of the Kazakhstan presidential vote in 2015, and yet, just four years later, in the wake of widespread persistent protests, he resigned. Getting an international airport named for you doesn’t seem to help a strongman stay in power. Maybe the honor DeSantis is trying to confer on Donald should be declined. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2026, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/3360 "2026-03-31T18:20:36Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > Trump couldn’t plan his way out of a paper bag. As evidenced by his war… plans. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2026, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/3361 "2026-03-31T18:50:13Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > I haven’t seen a basic MAGA hat in the wild in months. I saw your stereotypical jacked-up pickup flying an American flag and a Trump flag from the bed just yesterday, the first one in months. > [@PhillyGuy](#): > > These renamings may have been of questionable wisdom, but are nothing like the badness of naming stuff after the current leader. I think you misspelled “asshole.” ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2026, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/3362 "2026-03-31T18:57:54Z")
> [@PhillyGuy](#): > > Getting an international airport named for you doesn’t seem to help a strongman stay in power. Maybe the honor DeSantis is trying to confer on Donald should be declined. Or maybe it should be accepted, in hope that the trend continues!?! Of course he’s gonna accept it - having people pay [ETA: him] for the privilege of using his name is like catnip to Trump. ---
**Author:** ![PhillyGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ed655f/32.png) [@PhillyGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PhillyGuy)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2026, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/3363 "2026-04-01T00:12:59Z")
This isn’t the biggest horror of the day — that might be the executive order on voting — but he’s trying to intimidate SCOTUS: > **[Trump plans to attend oral arguments in Supreme Court birthright citizenship...](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/trump-plans-attend-oral-arguments-birthright-citizenship-case-rcna266117)** > > Both the Supreme Court and the Supreme Court Historical Society have said there is no official record of any sitting president attending oral arguments. ---
**Author:** ![Sylvanz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Sylvanz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylvanz)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2026, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/3364 "2026-04-01T00:34:38Z")
Eh, he’s probably planning on a good nap that day. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2026, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/3365 "2026-04-01T23:14:12Z")
He probably thinks – no, wrong word – assumes that glaring at HIS justices will intimidate them into doing his bidding. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774.md?page=167) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774.md?page=169)