Trump Plasters His Own Name on U.S. Institute of Peace Headquarters

[highplainsdem]

Source: New Republic

Donald Trump has taken over the United States Institute of Peace building in Washington, D.C., and put his name on it, even as the legal battle over who owns the building is ongoing.

Independent journalist Marisa Kabas posted about the visible signage on the building Wednesday on Bluesky, showing “DONALD J. TRUMP” in block letters tacked to the building. Kabas reports that Trump plans to use the building to host the signing of a peace agreement between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo on Thursday.

The USIP was created by Congress in the 1980s as a nonprofit organization independent of the federal government. The letters making up Trump’s name seem to have been taken from USIP’s sign inside the building, when the Department of Government Efficiency took over the think tank by force in March.

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The USIP’s building occupies prime Washington, D.C., real estate between the Potomac River and the National Mall, and is worth approximately $500 million, so it’s no surprise that the Trump administration wanted the building. Now it appears that Trump wanted something else with his name on it where he could be feted and praised, and isn’t willing to wait for the legal case to conclude in his favor.

Read more: https://newrepublic.com/post/203933/trump-name-us-institute-peace-headquarters-building

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SCOOP: Sources tell me Donald Trump's name was added to the exterior of the US Institute of Peace building ahead of Thursday's peace agreement signing between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), which will be held inside the building. Confirming if it's been officially renamed.

— Marisa Kabas (@marisakabas.bsky.social) 2025-12-03T19:31:01.194Z

[Moostache]

1. It is going to be such a pleasure to never hear that again once he dies.

The world is waiting to celebrate like 1999 and every other holiday in one as soon as the news is official and confirmed that he is no more. Then I will gladly forget that he ever existed and ignore his name for eternity.

[brer cat]

2. Asshole! I hope everything with his name or image

is removed in Jan. 2029.

[Ocelot II]

3. Evidently he's working on next year's Nobel Peace Prize.

[KS Toronado]

8. That's what I'm thinking

[mahina]

4. My God.

This place exists at least in large measure due to the work of our representative Sparky Matsunaga

Shame on Donald Trump

https://www.usip.org/spark-matsunagas-legacy-united-states-institute-peace

He lobbied for 22 years for the existence of this peace institute.

He was decorated for his valor in World War II and was truly beloved here in the islands.

He appears to have been disappeared from the website for now, but not for long

[yellow dahlia]

5. I really really really don't understand how they were able to oust USIP.

I really really really hate these people.

[2na fisherman]

6. Narcissist

He feels compelled to put his name everywhere to mark his territory like a dog pissing. And he feels a need to exaggerate his importance.
I look forward to the removal of all things Trump in the very near future. And the pundits will say things like, "At last our long national nightmare is over." But the hard work just begins when we try to repair all the damage he has done to our nation.

[twodogsbarking]

7. I will always feel the same about Trump even when he is dead. I will cope somehow.

[PatSeg]

10. Oh for f*ck's sake!

Like a child writing their name in wet cement, but much worse as he plasters that damn name on everything.

The name Trump will probably end up being a vile curse word in the future.

[Conjuay]

12. news flash:.

It already is.

[PatSeg]

13. Yeah, that is true

Though I see a time in the future where younger people use it as a curse word, not knowing its origin. Meanwhile, anyone with the name Trump will probably change it.

[niyad]

11. There is only one place I want to see his name.

[Deminpenn]

14. He is diagnosably mentally ill

This need to have his name on everything is not normal for an adult.

[Kid Berwyn]

15. Murderer with other people's money.

“Lookit me, I’m the piss pee-resident!”

[thought crime]

16. It's obscene

I have a hunch he'll work the Trump brand into the white house ballroom somehow. Just a hunch.

[LudwigPastorius]

17. "Needy Amin" indeed.

You are never getting a Nobel Peace Prize Donald. Get over it.

[Munu]

18. Entirely typical of the man.

[Bengus81]

19. Hell...I'm surprised that the Kennedy Center name hasn't been changed

It will eventually and one day years from now we'll be tearing that fuckers name off of it and other buildings.