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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Kelly Rissman

Trump Airport and Trump Day: The bills adoring GOP lawmakers have put forward

Making President Donald Trump’s birthday a national holiday, carving his face on Mount Rushmore, and renaming a Washington, D.C. airport after him are just some of the legislative changes that Republicans are pushing to honor the 45th and 47th president.

Some of the bills support the 78-year-old president’s efforts — like renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America or Greenland to “Red, White and Blueland” — while others have introduced adulating legislation that would place Trump as a renowned historical figure in the company of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, the Wall Street Journal first reported.

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