7 House Republicans Reach New Level of Sucking Up to Trump By Introducing Bill to Name DC's Airport After Him

[Tom of Temecula]

In the race among Republicans to suck up to former President Donald Trump, seven GOP members of Congress are bidding to take the lead.

Rep. Guy Reschenthaler (R-PA) has introduced a bill — along with six co-sponsors — to rename Washington’s Dulles Airport the “Donald J. Trump International Airport.” Reps. Chuck Fleischmann (R-TN), Paul Gosar (R-AZ), Barry Moore (R-AL), Troy Nehls (R-TX), Andy Ogles (R-TN) and Michael Waltz (R-FL) have all signed on.

In an interview with Fox News Digital, Reschenthaler made his case for why the airport should be renamed. “In my lifetime, our nation has never been greater than under the leadership of President Donald J. Trump,” Reschenthaler said. “As millions of domestic and international travelers fly through the airport, there is no better symbol of freedom, prosperity and strength than hearing ‘Welcome to Trump International Airport’ as they land on American soil.”

The bill has no shot to pass the Democratic-controlled Senate, but a House vote could potentially force some swing-district GOP members into an awkward show of loyalty to the former president.

https://www.mediaite.com/news/7-house-republicans-reach-new-level-of-sucking-up-to-trump-by-introducing-bill-to-name-dcs-airport-after-him/

[underpants]

1. Selling Bibles at the airports....

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[Traildogbob]

8. 👏👏👏👏👏👏

Greatest response post this year. Bravo!!
Completely forgot this song. By days end I will be playing it and it’ll be added to all the others I perform and cherish.
My fellow sailers and I on mid night watch in CIC would drink tons of nasty coffee and sing this to the outside lookouts on the M1C.
After 50+ hours of zero bogies on any scope surface or air, ya gotta do something to stay awake in a dark as hell CIC on 12 hour shifts.

[Fla Dem]

2. Give me an F'ing break. Who in their right mind would even consider such a profanity?

[TheBlackAdder]

34. Dulles is so much easier to say than . . . P01135809

[SledDriver]

3. JFC

[Hugin]

4. Having a cell named after PZero in a supermax is enough of a tribute. n/t

[PCIntern]

5. Next up:

All Americans will be required to use Trump as their children’s middle name. The only exception allowable would be “The Donald”.

WTAF is going on? Not that I was a fan of the Dulles brothers.

[tanyev]

6. I would never, ever, ever, ever fly in or out of an airport named after Donald Trump.

Wouldn't even want to drive anywhere near it.

[Midnight Writer]

7. They're going to name the airport Sphincter-mouth?

[marmar]

9. Might I suggest a port-a-potty instead

[Liberal In Texas]

10. That airport that's been around since the Revolutionary War?

Seriously, what a stupid stupid proposal. But hardly unexpected from this maga cult.

[HAB911]

11. Democrats should introduce legislation to change National

as a counter

[Liberal In Texas]

28. Good idea, I've never been able to utter the repug name. I still call it National.

[Shipwack]

12. Eh... Not as bad as...

... naming an airport after the President that broke the Air Traffic Controllers union.

[Stinky The Clown]

14. Yeah, name it after a guy who bought an airline (Eastern Shuttle) based there and then went broke

[Stinky The Clown]

13. OFerKrissakes. I was pissed when they named it for St. Ronnie. My flights always felt better when . . . .

. . . . it was Washington National Airport back in the Dark Ages. I used to fly the Eastern shuttle once or twice a week. Then wutsizname bought it, slapped his name on everything and promptly caused it to go broke. I switched to AMTRAK and never looked back. The Metroliner literally made it faster, door to door, to take the train than to fly.

Anyway, how 'bout we just go back to Washington National.

[hlthe2b]

16. It is Dulles they want to rename. No way, but I would agree Dulles does not deserve the "honor" either.

Dulles was a monster--renaming the airport from one monster to another is hardly acceptable.

[Stinky The Clown]

23. Oooops!

[Caliman73]

27. Absolutely. They should rename Dulles airport.

This is a stupid stunt by idiot Republicans. Just like them fighting to keep the names of TRAITORS to the United States on military bases like Bragg and Lee.

They claim to "love" the United States, but diminish its reputation at every turn.

[hlthe2b]

15. Yeah, right. I still refuse to call Washington National anything other than that... (after Reagan? No way)

[DFW]

17. same here

Reagan hated DC and we hated him. Naming National after him was an act of pure cynicism and spite, and this stunt is ten times worse.

[Grins]

21. Agree. I still call it "National." NM

[musette_sf]

31. When I travel to and from DC

the old school taxi drivers are extra nice to me when I ask to be taken to NATIONAL Airport. They immediately get why I make that distinction.

[Happy Hoosier]

18. Oh for fuck's sake.... NT

[DFW]

19. In my lifetime, the nation has never been more of a laughingstock or a danger to its own citizens.....

......than under the presidency of Donald J. Trump. And after the (de facto) presidency of Dick Cheney, that is saying something.

A bigger, more cynical lie than Reschenthaler's shameful statement has rarely been spoken on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives. I hope it receives the fierce blowback from Democratic House members that it deserves.

[bif]

20. I heard Washington-National is named after some asshole

I absolutely refuse to refer to it by it's "new" name/

[Emile]

22. Rename Rikers Prison in his honor.

[niyad]

24. Isn't there a little rule about not naming things after living former

presidents, or is that merely a custom?

[Polybius]

25. For coins they have to be dead

For others, not so much. The USS Jimmy Carter is nuclear-powered submarine, commissioned in 2005.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Jimmy_Carter

The USS George H.W. Bush was commissioned in 2009. Bush died in 2018.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_George_H.W._Bush

[niyad]

26. Thank you for the clarification.

[electric_blue68]

29. Oh, Yuck, NO! Bad enough they renamed the other one!

[blue neen]

30. It is my burden in life to admit that this man (Reschenthaler) is my congressman.

It's absolutely horrible because we have no chance of getting rid of him in this very Republican area. (PA-14).

[Silent3]

32. Aren't such things only named after dead people?

And if so, can it cause that to happen?

[YoshidaYui]

33. stupidest IDEA in the entire world of stupid things...

THE people who thought this up should be laughed at, and made embarrassed from sea to shiny sea.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

35. My congresscritter in one of these idiots

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