Dec. 12, 2025 6 AM PT
To the editor: It appears our present president believes that his place within the highest workplace within the nation entitles him to slap his identify or desired branding on any constructing or company he needs. The newest is renaming the previous U.S. Institute of Peace to be the Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace (“Trump is fighting the Institute of Peace in court. Now, his name is on the building,” Dec. 4). This removes america from its title, although Congress created it to be impartial and our tax {dollars} constructed the constructing, not President Trump.
This president fails to know that the buildings in our nation’s capital aren’t his, however all of ours; we the individuals, we the taxpayers. And people particular monuments and buildings named after notable previous presidents — Washington, Lincoln, Kennedy, and so on. — have been named in honor of their worthy contributions to our nation. These names have been earned and bestowed out of respect, not self-named throughout the presidents’ phrases of workplace out of self-promotion and aggrandizement.
Please, anybody in energy in Washington, cease this attention-craving president from rebranding all of our honest capital metropolis in his identify. The potentially illegal destruction of the East Wing to make method for a brand new ballroom implies that something is feasible. What a horror if Washington turns into our model of “Pottersville,” which Mr. Potter renamed from Bedford Falls when George Bailey wasn’t round to cease him in “It’s a Fantastic Life.”
Beth Wagner Brust, San Diego
