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2026 RESOLUTION: NAME SOMETHING AFTER PRESIDENT TRUMP  
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Harold Meyerson
December 23, 2025
The American Prospect
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_ A few things that every individual and every community could do in
2026 to give the president the name recognition that he deserves. _

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President Trump is on a roll. In the past couple of weeks, he’s
named the Kennedy Center, the U.S. Institute of Peace, and a new class
of battleships after himself.

It may seem that he sometimes mixes up the rationales for these
namings. The Navy will direct the design of the battleships “along
with me,” Trump said yesterday, “because I’m a very aesthetic
person.” That, of course, may better explain the sudden appearance
of his name before that of President Kennedy on D.C.’s premier
cultural center. Trump did invoke national-security concerns
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yesterday, but that was in connection with his termination of offshore
wind farm leases, though the administration has yet to offer an
explanation of how those wind farms affected national security. In
fact, Trump’s war on wind farms may well be at least partly
aesthetic, since his animus toward them is apparently rooted in his
seeing one such assemblage of turbines just offshore one of his golf
courses in Scotland, presumably compromising the view, and hence the
monetary value, of his property.

But this battleship business looks to be partly aesthetic, too.
“Dating back to his first term,” _The New York Times_ reports
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“Mr. Trump has criticized the look of the Navy’s fleet and called
for a return of the World War II-era vessels that were armed with
16-inch guns that were largely phased out for aircraft carriers whose
warplanes could strike targets many hundreds of times farther away.”
Big ships with big guns clearly appeal to Trump, even though naval
officials recognized how fatally uncompetitive they were as early as
three days after Pearl Harbor, when Japanese aircraft sunk the
battleship that had been the prize of the British navy, HMS _Prince of
Wales_, off the coast of Malaya. In reaction to Trump’s
announcement, a host of naval experts have stated that they believed
these Trump-class vessels would be sitting ducks for enemy forces,
recommending instead smaller, faster, and more mobile vessels.

But it’s size, not substance, that matters to Trump, as his
continual demands to create an ever-larger ballroom on White House
grounds makes clear.

Well, it’s not just size; it’s the Trump name. Back when he was
merely a developer, Trump eventually stopped developing and opted
instead to simply have his name plastered on a host of buildings. That
didn’t require him to cover much if any of the expenses entailed in
actually building something, even if those expenses were themselves
covered by bank loans he might, or might not, repay. (See: Trump
bankruptcy filings.) Now, as president, he can indulge his need for
self-aggrandizement far beyond anything he could do in the private
sector. Along with his racism, cruelty, and autocratic tendencies,
this is surely what future historians will highlight as the hallmark
of his presidency.

But let’s be fair. Trump could argue that it was his appointees to
the Kennedy Center board who decided to put his name above
Kennedy’s, and the State Department that slapped his name on the
Institute of Peace. (He hasn’t argued that, of course, because he
loves being able to name things after himself. After all, Napoleon
crowned himself emperor; why shouldn’t Trump?)

Nonetheless, the Kennedy Center board and the State Department have
laid out a course that all patriotic Americans could easily follow.
Why should it be just Trump’s minions who name valuable entities
after him? What’s stopping our most prominent cities from naming
their sewer systems after him? (Of course, Trump would send in the
Army to any city that did that, but surely some city councilmembers
could introduce resolutions to that effect.) What’s stopping our
citizenry from affixing Post-its or other sticky little things with
Trump’s name on them to public toilets? What better way for
freedom-loving Americans to express their love of country, to capture
the zeitgeist of 2026? We all can name things after Donald Trump, and
shame on us if we don’t.

 

_Harold Meyerson is editor at large of The American Prospect. __MORE
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