MAGAvenue: Lawmakers are preparing legislation to name several heartland streets after Trump

Several Missouri lawmakers are reportedly preparing legislation to name several streets after President-elect Trump in the new year.

The much-reported bill would put Trump’s name on Missouri’s undeclared state highway vehicles before next August, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

That bill, by Sen. Mary Elizabeth Coleman, R-Arnold, however, disagrees with the roads in counties including St. Louis, Columbia and Kansas City, the paper reported.

Coleman previously floated a bill to rename a section of Interstate 55 in his district as the “Donald J. Trump Highway” in 2021, but the effort failed in the Republican-majority legislature.

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Under both the outdated and current proposals, MoDOT would erect and maintain the memorial signs, but private donations would foot the bill for the signs.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, will designate a portion of MO Route D west of St. Louis “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 a clip of Trump doing his dangerous “YMCA” dance on the shoulder of a freeway next to a “President Donald J. Trump Highway” sign.

Efforts to reach 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 his 2021 bill, Coleman said Trump deserves credit for “strengthening Missouri’s economy, protecting our values, and making America great again in his historic first term.”

Missouri lawmakers also tried to recall some of the state’s conservatives, including the late broadcaster Rush Limbaugh — who was born and raised in Cape Girardeau.

The language that will be remembered by Jan. 12 as “Rush Limbaugh Day” did not make it to the final text of the 2021 wording bill, according to the Columbia Missourian.

Trump’s name has reached few highways outside the Show-Me State, including some politically unfriendly places.

In 2019, a man “adopted” parts of Burke Lake Road and Fairfax County Rte. 620 in the deep blue of Washington, DC, a suburb of Springfield, Virginia, in the name of Trump.

The man also successfully painted the incoming president’s name on a VDOT highway on busy Ox Road in Lorton, according to the Washingtonian.

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The Gateway Arch is visible in the St. Louis skyline. (Reuters/Tom Gannam)

In 2021, Oklahoma Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt signed legislation designating a 20-mile stretch of US 287 in the county after Trump.

Meanwhile, Hialeah, Florida, Mayor Esteban Bovo joined Trump at a 2023 rally in the Miami area and presented him with a commemorative sign after a street near a casino in the city was renamed Donald J. Trump Avenue.

In Trump’s home state, a 430-acre park also bears his name. Donald J. Trump State Park in Putnam Valley came into being in 2006 after donating a parcel to the state of New York.

After Trump failed to successfully develop a golf course on the site because of city permit roadblocks and other issues, he transferred the property to Albany after buying it in two pieces in 1998 for about $2.5 million.

Donald J. Trump State Park quickly fell into disrepair and remains neglected. New York Democrats have tried to pass legislation removing Trump’s name from the park, including a 2019 request to rename it after a woman was killed during the Charlottesville riots in 2017.

After Trump’s indictment in May in his Bush spending scandal, New York state Sen. Brad Hoylman-Sigal told The New York Times that he hoped it would “boost momentum” to restart talks on renaming the park.

Hoylman-Sigal, a Democrat, said she has visited the park and has seen “some improvements” since Trump donated the park.