Several Missouri lawmakers are reportedly preparing legislation to name several highways after President-elect Trump in the new year.
The most comprehensive bill reported would put Trump’s name on roadways the Missouri The state highway system will not be designated differently before August next year, the release said St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
However, this bill from state Sen. Mary Elizabeth Coleman, R-Arnold, would ban roads in counties such as 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 House.
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A caravan of vehicles for Donald Trump travels along the highway near Encinitas, California. (Reuters)
Under both the defunct and current proposals, MoDOT would construct and maintain the commemorative signage, but the cost of the signs would be covered by private donations.
A separate proposal from state 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 insert 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 deserves credit 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, who was born and raised in Cape Girardeau.
According to the Columbia Missourian, language celebrating Jan. 12 as “Rush Limbaugh Day” did not make it into the final text of a 2021 designation bill.
Trump’s name has made it 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 deep blue Washington, DC, a suburb of Springfield, Virginia, in the name of Trump.
The man also managed to put the new president’s name on the VDOT Attack on the Highway sign on busy Ox Road in nearby Lorton, they say 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 a law that would create a 20-mile section of US 287 in the state’s panhandle, according to Trump.
Meanwhile, in Hialeah, Florida, Mayor Esteban Bovo joined Trump at a rally in the Miami suburb in 2023 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 also bears his name. Donald J. Trump State Park in Putnam Valley was created in 2006 after he donated the property to New York State.
After failing to successfully build a golf course on the site due to city roadblocks and the like, Trump turned over the land 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 is largely neglected. New York Democrats have tried to pass legislation removing Trump’s name from the park, including an attempt in 2019 to rename it after the woman killed in the 2017 Charlottesville riots.
After Trump’s May conviction in his hush money trial, New York state Sen. Brad Hoylman-Sigal told The New York Times he hoped it would “provide the impetus” to restart talks about renaming the park.
Hoylman-Sigal, a Democrat, said he had visited the park and seen “some improvements” since Trump gifted it to the Pataki administration.
