By Myra Adams – The Hill contributor

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Reposted from The Hill – Nov. 21, 2025

Decades before Donald Trump was elected president in 2016, he displayed his name on buildings, locations and products to build a luxury lifestyle brand.

After opening the Trump Tower flagship in 1983 on New York City’s prestigious Fifth Avenue, he embarked on a promotional journey where anything seemed possible. Although it often was a turbulent and scandalous ride, he ultimately changed both national and global history.

Forty-two years later, Trump’s story is still evolving and could continue to evolve for decades, driven by his family’s relentless pursuit of wealth, fame and power.

Now that Trump is a lame-duck second-term president, there is an increased urgency for his “Trumpification” of America, including ample opportunities for leaders to curry favor by renaming things after him.

Let’s review the current list, starting with two major airports.

This month, Florida state Rep. Meg Weinberger (R) proposed legislation to rename Palm Beach International Airport as “Donald J. Trump International Airport,” where the hometown president parks Air Force One. Weinberger posted on X, “America’s greatest president deserves an airport that bears his name.”

If passed the Florida Legislature passes it, Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) could sign it. The term-limited governor, who will need a new job in 2027, will have this chance to show loyalty to Trump.

Still, expect turbulence before landing. Last week, the Palm Beach Post published a letter from an angry reader: “By renaming everything in his name, this country is glorifying an egotistical dictator. Why should we honor this president who has done so much damage to this country?”

The eight commercial airports named after U.S. presidents were either named posthumously or years after they left office.

The last presidential renaming was Clinton National Airport in Little Rock, Ark., in 2012. Bill Clinton had left office in January 2001. Likewise, Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, immediately across the Potomac from the District, was renamed in on Reagan’s birthday in 1998, a decade after he had left office. Thus, legislation to rename Palm Beach International Airport for the incumbent president could be grounded. Even so, in July, the airport’s Southern Boulevard has already been ceremonially renamed in Trump’s honor, so who knows?

Three days after Trump’s second inauguration, Rep. Addison McDowell (R-N.C.), along with four Republican original co-sponsors, introduced a bill “to designate the Washington Dulles International Airport in Virginia as the ‘Donald J. Trump International Airport.’”

Trump’s ego would surely swell if the larger (although much less convenient) Dulles Airport were renamed, compared to the smaller Reagan National. That bill was sent to the Subcommittee on Aviation in February, where it is dead on arrival.

Bold prediction: Dulles will be renamed “Trump” after he wins a landslide third term.

Or how about the Kennedy Center? Ambitious first-term Rep. Robert Onder (R-Mo.) has introduced a bill “to designate the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts as the ‘Donald J. Trump Center for the Performing Arts.’” Onder’s press release announced it as the “Make Entertainment Great Again (MEGA) Act.” The bill was sent to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management, but no entertaining hearings have been scheduled. Read more..