House Democrat on naming prison after Trump: ‘He might be visiting soon’

Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.) said in a Sunday interview he thinks it’s “only fitting” to name a federal prison after former President Trump, adding that he “might be visiting soon.”

“Well, there’s a nice federal penitentiary right near Mar-a-Lago. And I just thought for a guy who’s now got 88 criminal indictments pending, criminal — plus two major civil penalty trials that have already been resolved, costing him about a half a billion dollars,” Connolly told MSNBC’s Jonathan Capehart.

“I think it’s only fitting that if Republicans really want to honor Donald Trump, the most appropriate way to do that is to name a federal prison he might be visiting soon, after Donald J. Trump,” Connolly added.

Connolly was one of three Democrats to introduce a bill Friday to change the name of the Miami Federal Correctional Institution in Florida to “Donald J. Trump Federal Correctional Institution.” 

Connolly was joined by Reps. Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.) and John Garamendi (D-Calif.).

The proposal came in response to a Republican push to rename Washington Dulles International Airport after Trump.

Trump faces a federal indictment in Florida on charges he willfully retained national defense information and attempted to obstruct the government’s retrieval of the records after losing the presidential election in 2020.

The former president was also indicted for his alleged efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in a sweeping Georgia RICO indictment and in federal court in Washington, D.C. He also faces charges in a New York hush money case alleging he falsified business records ahead of the 2016 presidential election.

The Hill has reached out to Trump’s campaign for comment.