A conservative attorney is lobbying for new legislation to rename a Florida federal prison after former President Donald Trump, urging Americans to call their local representatives and express their support.
George Conway took to social media Friday to heap praise on a new proposal from House Democrats Gerry Connolly (D-VA) and Jared Moskowitz (D-FL) to rename Federal Correction Institution, Miami after the former president.
"FCI-Trump would become the crown jewel of the U.S. Bureau of Prisons system. Many people are saying this," Conway posted to X. "I urge all of you to call and write your respective Representatives and Senators to urge them to enact this important and historic legislation."
This comes as the former president faces multiple criminal indictments, with the first of his felony trials set to take place in Manhattan later this month.
Conway's remarks were met with some pushback — one X follower replied "Leave his name even off his tombstone" — but the conservative stood firm.
"Show some respect for our 45th president, please," Conway replied. "He has earned this."
X user Dennis Whitty had a question: "They couldn't find an outhouse in a state park somewhere?"
The bill was a response to legislation by some House Republicans to rename Washington Dulles International Airport, one of the primary airports serving D.C., to Donald J. Trump International Airport. Currently it is named for Eisenhower administration secretary of state and anti-communist crusader John Foster Dulles, who was ironically a Republican himself.
Such a move already has precedent; in the 1990s, Republicans in Congress forced through legislation to rename D.C.'s other major airport, then known as National Airport, after former President Ronald Reagan, over the objections of mostly-Democratic locals and the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority.
Decades later, many locals still refused to refer to the airport as Reagan National.
