I’d like to add a brief word on one of the more outrageously predictable stories out of the Trump White House. (And there are so very many this Friday afternoon — Trump posted and deleted a racist video portraying Barack and Michelle Obama as apes over on Truth Social, then had his spokesman blame it on “staffer error.”) NBC News reports that apparently the president is holding up millions of dollars of already-appropriated federal transportation funding for New York and New Jersey, and has informed Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer that he will release it in exchange for either Dulles International Airport (in Northern Virginia) or Penn Station (in New York City) being renamed after him.

I know that my colleague Jim Geraghty already touched on the absurd vainglory of this earlier in the morning, but since it’s my professional goal to own the “Trump Names Stuff........

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