The President Could Slap His Name on Yet Another Historic Building

2 min readWhere do they find these people? Is there a secret camp in which sycophants are trained in the service of a uniquely bizarre president who is decomposing by the hour? And, if so, can we please shut it down before the country is renamed the United States of Trump? From MSNow:As President Donald Trump fights to rename the Kennedy Center after himself, administration officials are circulating a list of government sites that could have his name affixed to them in some way, according to people familiar with the effort. One landmark that has emerged in the discussions among administration officials has raised eyebrows: Ford’s Theatre, the playhouse where Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in 1865.It is unclear how seriously the theater is being considered or how the administration would attach Trump’s name to it. One administration official said the idea had been discussed, but they didn’t know where it stood. The prospect sparked a flurry of discussion over the past week among people responsible for the historic site.What the fck is this? Are we now going to have naming rights for everything, like the Allstate Sugar Bowl? Mount Vernon National Historical Site Brought to You by President Donald J. Trump? Let us not lose sight of a) how pathetic the White House staff is, and b) how thirsty the president is.White House officials, advisers, and allies pitch ideas such as naming buildings after Trump to get on the president’s good side, a former administration official told MSNow, granted anonymity to discuss internal matters. The president’s view, the official said: “Why would I say no? Everybody’s trying to please me.” “They know flattery gets them everything,” the former official said, adding that people wait to hear “How can I help you?” in return.And as an added example of Providence having a wicked sense of irony, the current production at Ford's Theatre is Come from Away, a dramatization of the extraordinary acts of solidarity by the citizens of Gander, Newfoundland, Canada, who took in hundreds of American citizens stranded after their flights were diverted on September 11, 2001, when the U.S. airspace was shut down. Of course, we were getting along with Canada in those days.