The name game.
In the long ago, there was a rock song of that name by Shirley Ellis, an American singer.
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There was a procedure to be followed to play the name game. Over there at Wikipedia, there is a description of how the game worked. There were rules. Like this…
Using the name Katie as an example, the song follows this pattern:
Katie, Katie, bo-batie,
Bonana-fanna fo-fatie
Fee fi mo-matie
Katie!
The long ago song of the name game comes to mind as Democrats and Canada’s ruling elites go off the rails at President Trump’s naming project, naming various geographic or historic sites.
He has, notably, added his name to the Kennedy Center in Washington. At the moment, Democrats are beside themselves at his renaming of Lake Ontario and changing it to (what else?) Lake America.
In December of 2025, the U.S. State Department issued this statement: “This morning, the State Department renamed the former Institute of Peace to reflect the greatest dealmaker in our nation’s history. Welcome to the Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace. The best is yet to come.”
Down there in Palm Beach, where Trump has his famous Mar-a-Lago estate, the Palm Beach International Airport has been re-named the “PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP International Airport.” (Yes, capital letters in the original.) If you venture into Palm Beach, you can drive on “PRESIDENT DONALD J.TRUMP AVENUE.”
In need of a green card alternative for your wallet? There is the “Trump Gold Card.”
In the military? People reports:
In December 2025, the president — alongside then-Secretary of the Navy John C. Phelan and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth — announced plans to build a new class of American-designed battleships that will be “the most lethal surface combatant ever constructed.”
Plans are for the $17 billion USS Defiant (BBG 1) to be the first “Trump class” battleship: triple the size of an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer with “superior firepower, larger missile magazines, and the capability to launch Conventional Prompt Strike hypersonic missiles and the Surface Launch Cruise Missile-Nuclear.
Over in the public health sector, you can go to a specific “discount drug platform.” That would be “TrumpRx”.
Want to financially provide for your children?
Again from People:
Launching on July 4, 2026, the Trump Accounts will be made available to every American child born between January 1, 2025, and December 31, 2028, with a $1,000 seed contribution to start. Contributions are voluntary and max out at $5,000 per year, with funds from the accounts “invested in a broad stock-market index.”
The child gains access to the fund upon their 18th birthday. “Withdrawals for eligible expenses like higher education or a first home would be taxed at ordinary income rates with no additional penalty.”
One could go on with examples of what might be called the Trumpification of America.
But in fact? The president, who comes out of a background of publicizing his private sector buildings and enterprises, is really not doing anything new. (RELATED: Spoils Must Be Taken, and With No Hesitation or Reservation)
The fact is that Washington, D.C. is, um, littered with public buildings named for presidents and other prominent public figures. Examples?
The State Department is named for President Harry Truman
The Old Executive Office Building that is part of the White House Complex is named for President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Famously, the National Arts Center is named for President John F. Kennedy, a building that now also bears Trump’s name. (RELATED: The Trump-Kennedy Center Naming Kerfuffle, Part 2)
Move on up to Capitol Hill, and members of the U.S. Senate have their offices in one of three buildings named for Senator Richard Russell of Georgia, Philip Hart of Michigan, and Everett Dirksen of Illinois. On the House side, the offices for House members are named for former House members Sam Rayburn of Texas, Joseph Cannon of Illinois, Nicholas Longworth of Ohio, Thomas “Tip” O’Neill of Massachusetts, and Gerald Ford of Michigan. (RELATED: The Trump-Kennedy Center Kerfuffle)
On the Senate side, there is a Bell Tower named for Ohio Senator Robert Taft. There is that office building for President Ronald Reagan. And an island in the Potomac named for President Theodore Roosevelt.
And, of course, there are other buildings or locations named for the prominent. (Like the garden named for LBJ’s Lady Bird Johnson.)
In short, watching various Washington insiders/Democrats noisily gritting their teeth because President Trump’s name or the name of our country (Lake America) are being added to various geographical or architectural landmarks is little more than a hilarious game of double standards. History recalls they had no problem adding JFK’s name to the National Center for the Performing Arts. But they foamed at President Reagan’s name being added to Washington National Airport.
All of which is to say, the foaming from Democrats and various Washington elites at President Trump’s name — or the country’s! being added to this or that Washington or other landmark is little short of hilarious.
Will it stop? When the critics are no longer amongst us, one suspects. But until then, their silliness — not to mention their double standards on the name game — is amusing to watch.
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