US President Donald Trump

There’s nothing Donald Trump loves more than Donald Trump ― a platitude even Vice President JD Vance conceded last week, when he warned Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy that offering Trump anything other than flattery “is an atrocious way to deal with this administration.”

Ever since the election, Republican lawmakers have taken their adulation to the extreme in what’s become a weird competition of who can debase themselves the most.

Here’s a quick and not-at-all-exhaustive list of how Republican lawmakers in federal, state and local governments are looking to suck up to the president:

• In West Virginia, the House of Delegates is considering renaming the state’s highest peak, currently known as Spruce Knob, to “Trump Mountain.” (Remember when Trump claimed Democrats would rename Pennsylvania if he lost? Turns out that was probably a projection. See also: Gulf of Mexico, Denali.)
  
  
• In California, the Huntington Beach City Council decided to spend $7,000 on a commemorative plaque at the public library with the slogan, “Magical, Alluring, Galvanizing, Adventurous.”
  
  The phrase ― with an unmistakable acronym ― is not in any........
  

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