Trump admin quietly revives crusade to slap his name on major NYC landmark: report

Trump admin quietly revives crusade to slap his name on major NYC landmark: report
U.S. President Donald Trump walks with Mark Walter, CEO of Guggenheim Partners, as he hosts a reception for the reigning Major League Baseball (MLB) World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers in the Rose Garden at the White House, Washington, D.C., U.S., July 23, 2026. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein

The idea of Trump's name going on a New York City landmark has resurfaced after a Cabinet secretary's letter, per reports.

The New York Daily News reported that Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy sent a letter to Senate leadership on several committees on Wednesday that lists the renaming of New York Penn Station as part of the "administration priorities."

Duffy wrote that the Trump administration intends to "direct Amtrak to rename New York Penn Station," per the Daily News. The idea of Trump's name going on Penn Station has long been suggested, including in internal renderings of an overhaul showing "President Donald J. Trump" etched into marble.

Jake Sherman of Punchbowl News also reported in February that the Trump administration asked Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) to support the renaming of the Washington Dulles Airport and New York Penn Station after Trump. In exchange, Trump would release funding for the Gateway project, a roughly $40 billion portfolio of projects to modernize a corridor from Newark to New York Penn Station.

Duffy's letter requested funding for Amtrak, which owns Penn Station, and support for legislation that would allow Amtrak to take in more state and local taxes, the Daily News reported.

The Daily News also noted that Duffy teased Trump's name for Penn Station while answering a reporter's question last August about whether the old name would stay.

"I imagine you're asking, 'Is this going to be Trump Station?'" Duffy said. "I think that has a nice ring to it."

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President Donald Trump's niece, Mary Trump, scorched her uncle in her latest column, accusing Trump of trying to hide from his ever-mounting failures.

In particular, she took aim at Trump's new event in Georgia to unveil his so-called "Trump Accounts," an investment program for young kids meant to raise money for them over time.

The timing of that event, she said, "could not have been more revealing," as new polls give rock-bottom approval of Trump's handling on the economy. "Inflation remains elevated at roughly 3 percent, despite a modest decline last month that was driven largely by a temporary drop in gasoline and oil prices during the brief ceasefire with Iran. That respite did not last. Donald’s inability to secure a lasting agreement allowed the conflict to escalate once again, and the economic consequences have followed."

Trump further used his event to attack his critics as "communists," and reiterate the six-year-long lie that he won Georgia in 2020 and the election was stolen from him.

"Who is still buying this? Seriously, who?" Mary Trump, a psychologist and author, lamented.

Her uncle, she continued, "lies constantly" and has never done anything else, and yet "people continue listening to him recycle the same grievances, the same fabricated victories, and the same endless complaints about the press. Nearly two years after the election, he is still obsessing over how many votes he received. He remains incapable of moving beyond his own need for validation because, fundamentally, he cannot imagine a world in which he is not the center of it."

Ultimately, she said, Trump's efforts to lie about his failures and blame anyone and everyone else for the state of the economy perfectly encapsulate who he is.

"He demands credit for every positive development, regardless of whether he had anything to do with it. Yet every failure, every setback, every increase in costs, every broken promise, somehow belongs to someone else," she concluded. "Leadership does not work that way. If you insist on taking all of the credit, then you also have to accept the blame."

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The details of President Donald Trump's nuclear deal with Saudi Arabia caused alarm bells to ring out on CNN on Thursday.

CNN's Erin Burnett and Rep. James Walkinshaw (D-VA) discussed a new report during a segment on "OutFront" that the Trump company has been awarded a $63 billion development opportunity in Saudi Arabia, and that award happened around the same time that the Trump administration was negotiating with the Saudis in a deal that allows the country to enrich nuclear energy for civilian purposes. The company that awarded the development agreement is also linked to Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed Bin-Salman, who has also invested in Jared Kushner's $2 billion hedge fund during the first Trump administration.

It also noted that Trump gets to keep 80% ownership in the development deal himself, while his family gets the remaining 20%.

Burnett was taken aback by the report.

"It's stunning," Burnett said about the report. "Congressman, the White House [told] Forbes there are no conflicts of interest. What do you say?"

Walkinshaw did not mince words in his reaction.

"Clearly, we have a president of the United States, Donald Trump, who has been bought and paid for by MBS and the Saudi royal family," Walkinshaw said. "As the American people struggle to make ends meet, Donald Trump is raking it in. And it appears, at least initially, [he's] giving them in return a much sweeter nuclear deal, quite frankly, than was on the table in the Biden administration with much weaker inspections, at least initially without a commitment to join the Abraham Accords. The Saudis must have been feeling like they were getting what they paid for."

President Donald Trump urged tech companies Thursday to convince local communities to accept AI data centers.

"You have to convince your communities how great these things are. You can't fight it. You have to go with it," the President said.

Trump made the remarks during a speech unveiling his "Ratepayer Protection Pledge" at the Environmental Protection Agency.

The Trump administration is fast-tracking data center construction past environmental rules, but the projects have become politically contentious.

Polling shows overwhelming majorities of voters across partisan lines oppose data center construction near their communities, Gallup found, citing concerns about local resource waste and environmental impacts.

Some view data centers as a proxy for broader AI technology expansion.

The issue has created deep fractures in Republican-dominated states like Florida, where party members disagree sharply over development policy, demonstrating the political complexity surrounding data center deployment.

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