Multiple Missouri lawmakers are reportedly preparing legislation to name several highways after President-elect Trump in the new year.
The most sweeping bill would put Trump’s name on the US roadways the Missouri national highway system not yet otherwise designated before August next year, according to the St. Louis Postal Service.
However, that bill, from Sen. Mary Elizabeth Coleman, R-Arnold, opens up roads in counties that include St. Louis, Columbia and Kansas City, the newspaper reported.
Coleman previously introduced a bill to rename a portion of Interstate 55 in her district the “Donald J. Trump Highway” in 2021, but the effort failed in the Republican majority.
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A caravan of vehicles for Donald Trump drives down the highway near Encinitas, California. (Reuters)
Under both the defunct and current proposals, MoDOT would erect and maintain the memorial signs, but private donations would foot the bill for the signs.
A separate proposal from Sen. Nick Schroer, R-St. Charles, would name a portion of MO Route D west of St. Louis the “President Donald J. Trump Highway.”
“It’s time to make Missouri Roads great again,” Schroer said in a social media post announcing his bill.
The post included an inset of Trump doing his viral “YMCA” dance on the shoulder of a highway next to a “President Donald J. Trump Highway” sign.
Attempts to reach both 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 her 2021 bill, Coleman said Trump deserved the honor for “strengthening Missouri’s economy, defending our values and making America great again during his historic first term.”
Missouri lawmakers have also sought to memorialize other national conservatives, including the late radio host Rush Limbaugh — born and raised in Cape Girardeau.
Language to commemorate Jan. 12 as “Rush Limbaugh Day” did not make it into the final text of a 2021 bill, according to the Columbia Missourian.
Trump’s name has found its way onto a handful of highways outside the Show-Me State, including in some politically unfriendly areas.
In 2019, a man “adopted” portions 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 successfully had the incoming president’s name emblazoned on VDOT adopt-a-highway signs on busy Ox Road in nearby Lorton, according to the Washingtonian.
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The Gateway Arch can be seen in the St. Louis skyline. (Reuters/Tom Gannam)
In 2021, Oklahoma’s Republican Governor Kevin Stitt signed legislation designating a 20-mile stretch of US 287 in the state’s panhandle after Trump.
Meanwhile, Hialeah, Florida, Mayor Esteban Bovo joined Trump at a 2023 rally in suburban Miami and presented him with a memorial sign after an avenue near a casino in the city was renamed Donald J. Trump Avenue.
In Trump’s home state, a controversial 430-acre park area also bears his name. Donald J. Trump State Park in Putnam Valley was created in 2006 after he donated the parcel to the state of New York.
After Trump was unable to develop a golf course on the property due to roadblocks and the like, he passed on the land to Albany after originally purchasing it in two pieces in 1998 for about $2.5 million.
Donald J. Trump State Park quickly fell into disrepair and remains largely unmanaged. Democrats in New York have tried to pass legislation to strike Trump’s name from the park, including a 2019 bid to rename it after the woman killed during the 2017 Charlottesville riot.
Following Trump’s conviction in his hush money trial in May, New York State Senator Brad Hoylman-Sigal told The New York Times that he hopes this will “prime the pump” to resume talks on renaming the park.
Hoylman-Sigal, a Democrat, indicated he has visited the park and seen “some improvements” since Trump donated it to the Pataki administration.
