Several Missouri lawmakers are reportedly preparing legislation to name several highways after President-elect Trump in the new year.
The largest reported bill would give the Trump name to roadways in the Missouri state highway system that have not yet been otherwise designated before next August, according to the St. Louis after shipping.
However, that bill, from state Sen. Mary Elizabeth Coleman (R-Arnold), exempts roads in counties covering St. Louis, Columbia and Kansas City, the newspaper reported.
Coleman previously introduced a bill to rename a portion of Interstate 55 in his district the “Donald J. Trump Highway” in 2021, but the effort failed in the Republican-majority legislature.
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A caravan of Donald Trump vehicles drives along the highway near Encinitas, California. (Reuters)
Under both the current and defunct proposals, MoDOT would post and maintain the commemorative signs, but private donations would cover the bill for the signs.
A separate proposal from state Sen. Nick Schroer, R-St. Charles, would designate a portion of MO Route D west of St. Louis as the “President Donald J. Trump Highway.”
“It’s time to make Missouri’s roads great again,” Schroer said. in a social media post announcing his bill.
The post included an insert of Trump doing his viral “YMCA” dance on the shoulder of a highway next to a sign that read “President Donald J. Trump Highway.”
Attempts to reach Schroer and Coleman for further comment were unsuccessful.
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Fox News Digital also reached out to Missouri Senate President Pro Tempore Caleb Rowden, R-Columbia.
In announcing his 2021 bill, Coleman said Trump deserved the honor for “strengthening Missouri’s economy, standing up for our values and making America great again during his historic first term.”
Missouri lawmakers have also sought to commemorate other national conservatives, including the late radio host Rush Limbaugh, who was born and raised in Cape Girardeau.
Language to commemorate January 12 as “Rush Limbaugh Day” did not make it into the final text of a 2021 appointments bill, according to the Columbia Missourian.
Trump’s name has reached a handful of highways outside the Show Me state, including in some politically hostile areas.
In 2019, a man “adopted” parts of Burke Lake Road and Fairfax County Rte. 620 in the deep blue Washington, DC suburb of Springfield, Virginia, in Trump’s name.
The man also managed to successfully emblazon the incoming president’s name on VDOT highway adoption signage on busy Ox Road in nearby Lorton, according to the washingtonian.
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The Gateway Arch is seen on the St Louis skyline. (Reuters/Tom Gannam)
In 2021, Republican Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt signed legislation designating a 20-mile stretch of US 287 in the state’s post-Trump peninsula.
Meanwhile, Hialeah, Florida, Mayor Esteban Bovo joined Trump at a 2023 rally in the Miami suburb and offered him a commemorative sign after an avenue near a casino in the city was renamed Donald Avenue. J. Trump.
In Trump’s home state, a controversial 430-acre parkland also bears his name. Donald J. Trump State Park in Putnam Valley came into existence in 2006 after he donated the parcel to New York state.
After Trump was unable to successfully develop a golf course on the site due to road blocks with city permits and the like, he passed the land on to Albany after originally purchasing it in two parts in 1998 for about $2, 5 million.
Donald J. Trump State Park soon fell into disrepair and remains largely unmaintained. New York Democrats have attempted to pass legislation removing Trump’s name from the park, including a 2019 attempt to rename it in honor of the woman killed during the 2017 Charlottesville riots.
After Trump’s conviction in May in his hush money trial, New York State Senator Brad Hoylman-Sigal told the New York Times that he hopes to “prime the pump” to restart talks to rename the park. .
Hoylman-Sigal, a Democrat, said he visited the park and saw “some improvements” since Trump gifted it to the Pataki administration.
