Except for a brief low after his attempt to overthrow the government a few years back, Donald Trump has had an iron grip over the Republican Party for close to a decade now. This had led to a lot of grand old sucking up to Trump over the years. But since his second term began, the Republican sycophant industrial complex has moved into a new gear. Below are the most egregious recent examples of the term so far.
A bill to make Trump’s birthday a national holiday
On February 14, New York representative Claudia Tenney introduced a bill to make Donald Trump’s birthday, June 14, a federal holiday.
“His impact on the nation is undeniable,” Tenney wrote in a statement announcing the bill. “Just as George Washington’s Birthday is codified as a federal holiday, this bill will add Trump’s Birthday to this list, recognizing him as the founder of America’s Golden Age.” (So far, the golden age has consisted of plunging consumer confidence and fears of more inflation due to Trump’s tariffs.)
A bill to put Trump on Mount Rushmore
Florida representative Anna Paulina Luna proposed a bill in January to make Mount Rushmore a little more crowded by adding Trump’s visage alongside George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln.
Mount Rushmore, a timeless symbol of our nation’s freedom and strength, deserves to reflect his towering legacy — a legacy further solidified by the powerful start to his second term,” Luna wrote, just eight days into the term. The one-page bill did not detail how or where sculptors would chisel Trump’s face into the 5,725-foot mountain in South Dakota, or how they would get his hair right.
A bill to change the name of Greenland to ‘Red, White and Blueland’
Another stunt bill came from Representative Buddy Carter, who proposed legislation changing the name of Greenland to “Red, White and Blueland.”
“President Trump has correctly identified the purchase of what is now Greenland as a national security priority, and we will proudly welcome its people to join the freest nation to ever exist when our Negotiator-in-Chief inks this monumental deal,” Carter said in a statement announcing the bill last month.
A resolution to allow Trump to serve a third term
Just three days into Trump’s second term, Representative Andy Ogles was hoping for a third. The Tennessee Republican filed a resolution to amend the Constitution and void the 22nd Amendment, which limits presidents to two terms. Trump “has proven himself to be the only figure in modern history capable of reversing our nation’s decay and restoring America to greatness, and he must be given the time necessary to accomplish that goal,” Ogles fawned.
A U.S. Attorney that calls himself Trump’s lawyer
Ed Martin, the nominee for U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, has joined Trump’s spat against the Associated Press over the outlet’s refusal to re-designate the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America. On Monday, Martin posted on an official government account that his office was serving as “President Trumps’ lawyers” and that he would remain “vigilant in standing against enemies like the AP.”
Putting aside the typo, a U.S. Attorney is appointed to uphold the law, not to do the president’s bidding or treat journalists like hardened criminals. Leave that kind of thing to the deputy director of the FBI, Dan Bongino.
