A report published by the American Daily Beast website , on Monday, December 21, 2020, revealed that the outgoing US President Donald Trump began in the past days a discussion with his employees at the US airport selection mechanism and released the names of former presidents on it, in an implicit reference to his admission of defeat in Presidential election.
The report quoted one of the sources in the White House as saying that the outgoing US President Donald Trump said in his discussion with employees that no president wants to be named after an American airport with a bad reputation and a dilapidated infrastructure, according to the source who transferred the details to the American website.
Even one of the sources also reported to the American Daily Beast that Trump questioned during the US presidential elections what documents were required to name an airport after a former president.
Trump is busy with his personal life
On the other hand, the report indicates that Trump's keenness to know the mechanisms of naming airports after the names of former presidents, indicates that he began to think seriously about the endeavors of his life after Joe Biden assumed the presidency of America, and his admission of defeat in the presidential elections, and his keenness at the same time that he wanted to put his name On one of the important places in the country.
On the other hand, a third source told The Daily Beast, that Trump indicated in his speech on two different occasions since 2018 that he wanted to name an international or domestic airport in the United States in his name, and that he wished that there would be strong efforts organized to do so, such as efforts to name The domestic airport in Washington, DC in the name of President Ronald Reagan.
The source also said that he heard Trump talk about the type of aircraft carriers he wants to call "USS Donald Trump" in the days following his term. However, the site indicated that it may not get either of the two at all.
USA airports
On the other hand, The Daily Beast said that there are airports in the United States of America named after former presidents such as Theodore Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower, John Kennedy, Jimmy Carter, Reagan, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton and George Washington, taking into account That Ronald Reagan Washington Municipal Airport is named after the forty-first American presidents.
Whereas, when Washington airport was named after Reagan, President Clinton signed a resolution adding the forty president's name to the domestic airport. On the other hand, in the wake of the Kennedy assassination, New York Mayor Robert Wagner suggested naming the airport after the late Democratic president.
The report indicated that there are increasing possibilities related to those who turned Trump from among his political allies who want to show their loyalty to him by making efforts to name an airport after his name.
But the report said that the process of naming one of the airports after Trump is not supposed to take place until after he leaves office. What reveals his interest in personal matters despite the country going through huge crises facing the country.