"Which Airport Are They Going to Name After Me?"

[Bicycle Bill]

In the dying days of his presidency, Donald Trump has taken to asking some aides and advisers about the process of naming airports after former U.S. presidents, according to two people who’ve heard him recently inquiring on this.  One of the two sources relayed that, in the past three weeks, Trump mentioned that “no president” wants an American airport that has a bad reputation or crumbling infrastructure named after them.  The other knowledgeable 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.

Trump’s focus on airport namings suggests that his mind has begun to wonder (methinks the word they wanted was 'wander' - comment mine) towards the ceremonial elements that accompany life after the presidency.  It also shows that his infatuation with having pieces of infrastructure emblazoned with his name hasn’t faded at all with his time occupying the single most powerful position in the world.

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.  

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”.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-tr ... e?ref=home

Good God!!  Does the man have absolutely no shame whatsoever??  Maybe someone should let him know that neither LBJ nor Richard Nixon have airports or aircraft carriers named for them (or nuke subs either, for that matter, from the time when they were given the names of former presidents) as well.
Or maybe it's just that, as Americans, we don't feel like honoring people who lose either.....

-"BB"-

[ex-khobar Andy]

It must royally piss him off that there are (or were) TWO ships named USS John S McCain.

[BoSoxGal]

Despite all his loathesome behavior, I still can’t help feeling sorry for this man. He is so clearly an utterly ruined human being. He was born into this world with the potential to be very different, but he really is a perfect example of how toxic parenting can utterly destroy a child’s psyche and create in them a narcissistic personality disorder. He is utterly incapable of the range of human emotion and especially empathy; I cannot fathom such a life, it would be bleak to my way of thinking but I suppose to his way of thinking there is no value in compassion whatsoever.

I’m glad I live someplace that won’t even consider naming the sewage treatment plant after him, not even in the short term. I fully expect that in time he will be as reviled as Hoover was and have just as many monuments to himself as Hoover does.

[Burning Petard]

For really biggly monument is hard to out do the Hoover Dam.

He was a pretty decent civil engineer. Current POTUS only skill seems to be putting his name on stuff with other people's money.

snailgate

[BoSoxGal]

Not without controversy:

Naming controversy


Los Angeles Times political cartoon commenting on the attempts of Ickes to keep "Hoover" off the dam.

During the years of lobbying leading up to the passage of legislation authorizing the dam in 1928, the press generally referred to the dam as "Boulder Dam" or as "Boulder Canyon Dam", even though the proposed site had shifted to Black Canyon.[16] The Boulder Canyon Project Act of 1928 (BCPA) never mentioned a proposed name or title for the dam. The BCPA merely allows the government to "construct, operate, and maintain a dam and incidental works in the main stream of the Colorado River at Black Canyon or Boulder Canyon".[126]

When Secretary of the Interior Ray Wilbur spoke at the ceremony starting the building of the railway between Las Vegas and the dam site on September 17, 1930, he named the dam "Hoover Dam", citing a tradition of naming dams after Presidents, though none had been so honored during their terms of office. Wilbur justified his choice on the ground that Hoover was "the great engineer whose vision and persistence ... has done so much to make [the dam] possible".[127] One writer complained in response that "the Great Engineer had quickly drained, ditched, and dammed the country."[127]

After Hoover's election defeat in 1932 and the accession of the Roosevelt administration, Secretary Ickes ordered on May 13, 1933, that the dam be referred to as "Boulder Dam". Ickes stated that Wilbur had been imprudent in naming the dam after a sitting president, that Congress had never ratified his choice, and that it had long been referred to as Boulder Dam.[127] Unknown to the general public, Attorney General Homer Cummings informed Ickes that Congress had indeed used the name "Hoover Dam" in five different bills appropriating money for construction of the dam.[128] The official status this conferred to the name "Hoover Dam" had been noted on the floor of the House of Representatives by Congressman Edward T. Taylor of Colorado on December 12, 1930,[129] but was likewise ignored by Ickes.

When Ickes spoke at the dedication ceremony on September 30, 1935, he was determined, as he recorded in his diary, "to try to nail down for good and all the name Boulder Dam."[71] At one point in the speech, he spoke the words "Boulder Dam" five times within thirty seconds.[130] Further, he suggested that if the dam were to be named after any one person, it should be for California Senator Hiram Johnson, a lead sponsor of the authorizing legislation.[71] Roosevelt also referred to the dam as Boulder Dam,[92] and the Republican-leaning Los Angeles Times, which at the time of Ickes' name change had run an editorial cartoon showing Ickes ineffectively chipping away at an enormous sign "HOOVER DAM," reran it showing Roosevelt reinforcing Ickes, but having no greater success.[131]

In the following years, the name "Boulder Dam" failed to fully take hold, with many Americans using both names interchangeably and mapmakers divided as to which name should be printed. Memories of the Great Depression faded, and Hoover to some extent rehabilitated himself through good works during and after World War II.[132] In 1947, a bill passed both Houses of Congress unanimously restoring the name "Hoover Dam."[133] Ickes, who was by then a private citizen, opposed the change, stating, "I didn't know Hoover was that small a man to take credit for something he had nothing to do with."[132]

Perhaps fitting that something that caused so much environmental devastation was ultimately officially named after such a rotten President.

[Sue U]

Perhaps fitting that something that caused so much environmental devastation was ultimately officially named after such a rotten President.

Hey! I've got it: We can have the Exxon Valdez rechristened the Donald J. Trump. Or do the same to the Deepwater Horizon. Or literally anything that's been a massive disaster whose destructive effects will be felt for many many years.

[Big RR]

If I recall correctly, there was a rest stop restroom on the NY Thruway named for Howard Stern. Now I wouldn't expect an entire restroom for Trump, but maybe a toilet or a urinal would be appropriate. Put a big T on it and people would be lining up to piss or shit in it.

[datsunaholic]

The future USS Lyndon B Johnson (DDG 1002) is under construction. Ok, it's a destroyer and not a carrier or sub, but it's still a ship.

Personally, I wouldn't even have a sewage barge named after Trump.

[Scooter]

There's also the Johnson Space Center.

It's not as if naming major airports after presidents is any kind of a tradition. And since almost all of them are under local control, they would have to find an airport owned by a city/county government that is sufficiently Trumpian to even consider the matter. There can't be many of those.

[TPFKA@W]

Sheremetyevo International Airport?

[Bicycle Bill]

There's also the Johnson Space Center.

I thought it was the Kennedy Space Center — until I checked and found out that the Kennedy Space Center is the vehicle assembly/launch complex in Florida, and the Johnson Space Center is what they were referring to as "Houston" during Apollo 13 — "Okay, Houston... we've had a problem here."

So even if you consider a "spaceport" to be an airport of sorts, the Johnson Space Center still doesn't quite cut the mustard as nothing lifts off from or lands there.

Maybe they could name this place near Poland, Wisconsin after him, since the guy who's behind this seems to be just as nutty as Trump himself.


-"BB"-

[BoSoxGal]

The future USS Lyndon B Johnson (DDG 1002) is under construction. Ok, it's a destroyer and not a carrier or sub, but it's still a ship.

Personally, I wouldn't even have a sewage barge named after Trump.

This weekend I watched The Soul of America and then I watched HBO’s film All the Way with Bryan Cranston as LBJ and I was reminded what a fucking extraordinary human being and politician that man was. (Also full of contradictions I know; I read the first two volumes of Caro's magnum opus and someday, maybe, I’ll tackle the rest.)

It made me angrier than ever about Trump’s line on having done the most ever for black Americans.

[Burning Petard]

Local control? With 60 million Americans still claiming Trump won, there should be many airports named after him. All should be those many 'feeder' airports that were boosted by the local chambers of commerce in tiny towns that just knew their 'international airport' would be the best thing for the town since they installed parking meters on Main Street. The municipal bond issues are still outstanding but there is grass growing in the cracks on the runway.

snailgate

[Scooter]

But that's just it; I'm sure that there are countless backwoods communities that would fall over themselves to rename their airport after him, but somehow I don't think that is the image that Trump had in mind. Having the Cedar Rapids airport named after him would not prestigious enough, certainly not in comparison to the metropolises (metropoli?) where airports have been named for presidents.

[Econoline]

The airport code for Sioux City, Iowa is SUX, so if they renamed that one they wouldn't have to change the code.

[Long Run]

The airport code for Sioux City, Iowa is SUX,

Can't beat Fukuoka, though.

[Joe Guy]

How about renaming Lakehurst Maxfield Field, formerly Naval Air Station Lakehurst after Trump?

[dales]

Even ex-president Carter has a general aviation field named after him.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Car ... al_Airport

[MajGenl.Meade]

I think they should rename ALL 12 of our most amazing, beautiful and incredible Army bases after him, since it would keep traitor to the Constitution as the main theme:

Camp Beauregard
Fort Benning
Fort Bragg
Fort Gordon
Fort A.P. Hill
Fort Hood
Fort Lee
Fort Pickett
Fort Polk
Fort Rucker
Camp Maxey
Camp Pendleton,

[Guinevere]

Let’s just get to January 20 at 12:01pm, and never say his name again.