Dreams of glory
Trump’s mind is on………..
…………getting someone to get the necessary process going to get an Important airport named after him.
(What do Donald Trump and Eddie Izzard have in common? Laser-like focus on The Self to the exclusion of all others.)
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.
He asked one of the two what kind of paperwork is necessary to get an airport named after a former president. Sir, you need to request Form 4728B from the Department of Egotism sir.
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.
Well I hope he’s keeping a proper list. It needs to include hospitals, post offices, train stations, bus terminals, licensing offices, weather bureaus, schools, universities, garden centers, ice cream plants.
Trump, very likely, will have a number of allied state and national politicians eager to demonstrate their devotion to him with an airport-naming push. But the process isn’t supposed to come until after he leaves office. The fact that it’s on his mind now, amid an exploding coronavirus crisis and accompanying economic problems, demonstrates how far his attention can drift even during weighty and difficult moments.
More precisely, it demonstrates how intensely focused his attention is on himself rather than on some irritating pandemic or hackers meddling with the nukes or the climate we accidentally broke.
We could name the pandemic after him. At least there would be some relevance and kinship between the two.
Hope it’s an airport I never have to use. I had enough problem when I had to fly into Ronald Reagan airport. I don’t think I could buy a ticket to Donald J. Trump airport…unless they called it “Cheeto Christ Stupid Czar” airport.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gW2SEpWWqXM
The thought of naming a hospital after him is creepy (and probably not up to the federal government,) but I think I could go along with a Trump National Cemetery.
Twenty or so years ago I was taking a taxi to Reagan airport near DC. I got into the taxi and asked the driver to take me to National airport, the old name for it. Then I said,sorry, I forgot that it’s now Reagan airport. The taxi driver said no it’s not. It’s still National as far as I’m concerned. So I gave him a big tip!
Yes! I refuse to call it that, myself. REFUUUUSE.
Unless there is a town called Loserburg, Crookstown, Shittsville, Foolsgold, or similar, there are no places suitable for a Trump airport.
Actually, there are possibilities, but they might need an airport building first. Just a hangar and runway big enough for a crop-duster or two would suffice.
There’s Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, but I doubt he’d get the irony.
Bumpass, Virginia, because there’s no Grabpussy.
Embarrass, Minnesota, because he would.
Gaylordsville, Connecticut, just because.
Humptulips, Washington, since he’d hump anything with an opening, but maybe too close to home for our host,.
Mock City, Washington. See above.
Nothing, Arizona, for his IQ.
Slickpoo, Idaho. Ideal for that shitstain.
Tightwad, Missouri. No comment necessary.
We live about a mile west of National Airport. Most people around here don’t use the R-word to refer to it.
Sadly we have to see his ugly statue at the entrance.
AoS,
Anthology or Marblehead, MA.
I hope no one names an aircraft carrier after the incompetent retard either.
He can have the bus stop that is one stop down from mine named after him if he likes. It’s nearly completely superfluous thanks to being about 40m away from my stop, thanks to the awkward street-and-creek layout here preventing it being placed at the usual bus stop spacing. Also, it lacks a shelter.
#3 Sastra
So long as it is not a military cemetery. He’d love that.
I love the architecture though. It’s the only airport I can think of that I actually like the aesthetics of which.
Maybe Texas has a plot of land for Trump to build an airstrip, and enough room for a Trump Shuttle junkyard next to it. I hear they like him down there. Maybe a Casino too, he did well with that didn’t he. Buffoon.
Oh, yes. And if you’re lucky enough to approach it from the north, it’s one of the most spectacular landings as well.
Why all the Reagan hate? Next to Trump he was a saint.
That’s like saying covid isn’t as bad as the bubonic plague.
twiliter: While barely scratching the surface, three words…
Air traffic controllers.
Another possible site would be Nowhere, Oklahoma. They’d probably need to build an airport first, of course.
Thanks Richard, I see the point now.
WaM #8, I suspect you intended “Athol” but got bit by autocorrect. (I am familiar with the old joke about Endicott Peabody.)
I’m sure someplace in Alabama would suit; maybe Fleahop or Slapout.
Sackbut,
That’s a hell of an autocorrect. Yes, I meant Athol.
Another favorite is Belchertown.
On the subject of airports, the comedian, Frankie Boyle, once quipped that re-naming Liverpool International Airport after John Lennon was a nice touch of irony considering he couldn’t get there fast enough once he’d made a few quid.
AoS @ #20
You go to my home town (Charleville Mezieres) and you find Arthur Rimbaud everywhere.
Yeah guys. He described it as “exceptionally stupid”* left when he was 16 and never came back…
*He was right. I grew up there: if there is one place where Rimbaud’s poetry can still shock, it’s Charleville Mezieres
I dunno. The Donald J Trump Sewerage Works has a nice ring to it.