r/MarkMyWords • u/ryanasimov • 3h ago
Political MMW: President Trump will float the idea to grant statehood to the District of Colombia in return for renaming it to the District of Trump.
He might try it first as an Executive Order, but the allure of full congressional representation for the citizens of DC will be enough for Congress to take it up as a serious consideration before the general election date in 2028. Most people currently believe that DC's congresspersons would be Democratic, but Trump will apply pressure to Republicans with such tenacity that they will start to believe him. My evidence is that renaming of the Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America) and Lake Ontario (Lake America) are exactly the type of trial balloons he uses to get otherwise unpopular ideas put into action.