Democrats panned the bill as “ridiculous” and an attempt by Republicans to “suck up” to Trump.
A group of House Republicans has introduced legislation to rename Washington Dulles International Airport in Virginia after former President Donald Trump.
The bill, filed Friday, is sponsored by Rep. Guy Reschenthaler, R-Pa., the chief deputy majority whip, and is co-sponsored by six other Republicans: Reps. Michael Waltz, of Florida; Andrew Ogles, of Tennessee; Chuck Fleischmann, of Tennessee; Paul Gosar, of Arizona; Barry Moore, of Alabama; and Troy Nehls, of Texas.
The measure says it would “designate the Washington Dulles International Airport in Virginia as the ‘Donald J. Trump International Airport.’”
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“This idea is ridiculous, but sadly real,” Rep. Abigail Spanberger, who’s running for governor of Virginia, wrote Tuesday in a post on X, adding that Congress instead should focus on reauthorizing the Federal Aviation Administration and passing foreign aid. “Yet this is what a Member of House Republican leadership focuses on — renaming Virginia’s Dulles airport after Trump.”
With all of the things going on in this screwed up world it is always important to remember what truly matters…
I’ll say the same thing I said when they re-named Washington National Airport for Ronald Reagan… you don’t name shit after people who are still alive.
It’s different if they own the building or helped fund the building, fine, Reagan lived another 6 years after the airport was named for him.
Are airports not owned by the states/counties/cities they’re located in? Why is this even up to Congress to decide?
At least it is an Airport already named after a horrible person?
Of course Republicans would have a worse name for the airport which is an astronomically low bar lmao. The Dulles brothers (whichever one the airport is named after) should not have an airport in their name because they were monsters that helped establish the CIA as a piece of shit organization.
Name is after some local wildlife or something.
I’m all for it. Buffoon Trump Airport. Dumb Prick Donald Airport. Something like that.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Guy Reschenthaler, R-Pa., the chief deputy majority whip, and is co-sponsored by six other Republicans: Reps. Michael Waltz, of Florida; Andrew Ogles, of Tennessee; Chuck Fleischmann, of Tennessee; Paul Gosar, of Arizona; Barry Moore, of Alabama; and Troy Nehls, of Texas.
Some House Democrats expressed disbelief over the move to rename the airport, 26 miles west of downtown Washington, D.C.
“This idea is ridiculous, but sadly real,” Rep. Abigail Spanberger, who’s running for governor of Virginia, wrote Tuesday in a post on X, adding that Congress instead should focus on reauthorizing the Federal Aviation Administration and passing foreign aid.
“Yet this is what a Member of House Republican leadership focuses on — renaming Virginia’s Dulles airport after Trump.”
Rep. Don Beyer, D-Va., wrote in a thread on X Tuesday that one of Trump’s first acts as president was “a racist Muslim ban that blocked permanent American residents from their own country.”
Former Rep. Denver Riggleman, R-Va., who assisted the House select committee that investigated Jan. 6 in the last Congress, said on X Tuesday that the filing of the bill was no April Fools’ joke.
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This is going to age like milk if he’s ever convicted.
Besides the “don’t they have anything better to do” line, I really feel like you need to already be dead before they can do this sort of thing.
cut to interior of typical American home. Mother and father are pouring over paperwork
Dad:
Damn, honey. Money’s tight this week with no end in sight.Mom: I know. I wish congress would get their act together. I think I heard something about a bill to help out working families. I let’s see what’s on c-span.
changes to scene where a floor debate is underway to change Dulles airport to Trump airport
fade to black with the words “This is how little the Republicans think of you”
See? The attack ads literally write themselves.
You’re presuming logic or reason was in play, though.
Which. Y’know. It very much isn’t.
