Trump Offers Billions for Tunnels If Stations Get His Name, Receives Political Faceplant

KEY POINTS

•President Trump last month offered to release billions of dollars for New York’s Gateway Tunnel Project if Schumer renamed Penn Station and Dulles Airport after him.
•Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer rejected Trump’s naming demand, prolonging the $16 billion project’s funding standoff.
•Schumer and Democrats are also negotiating DHS funding with the White House, threatening shutdowns if demands on ICE policies aren’t met.

In a 2026 political stunt with the subtlety of a neon flamingo in Times Square, President Trump dangled billions for the $16 billion Gateway Tunnel Project—underground railway tunnels connecting New York and New Jersey—on the condition that Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer rename New York’s Penn Station and Washington's Dulles International Airport after Trump. Schumer, who likes his landmarks historical and less Trump-flavored, decisively rejected the offer, ensuring this massive project will remain stalled. Not even a White House meeting last month could feature this proposal—Trump reserved it for side chats like a bad sales pitch. Meanwhile, Democrats threaten to shut down Homeland Security over ICE funding and mask mandates, proving politics is just negotiation theater plus reality TV levels of drama.

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Trump’s strategy to fix billion-dollar tunnels by slapping his name on public landmarks is presidential branding run amok—and Schumer actually said no.

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