Dem Lawmaker Trolls Republicans By Daring Them To Give Trump This 1 Backhanded Honor

Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.) on Sunday dared his Republican colleagues to join him by “honoring” Donald Trump by naming one specific government facility after the former president.

“There’s a nice federal penitentiary right near Mar-a-Lago,” he told MSNBC’s Jonathan Capehart.

GOP lawmakers have pitched renaming Washington Dulles International Airport after Trump. Connolly and Reps. Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.) and John Garamendi (D-Calif.) instead offered to rename the prison closest to Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home after the ex-president.

Connolly explained to Capehart:

The first of Trump’s criminal trials is set to begin on April 15, while three others are currently making their way through various courts.

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