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Published by Admin on December 30, 2025
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Stick around after the main event here for a news segment you may have missed. But first, a tour of Trumpland.

Most public figures pass away before things are commissioned or renamed in their honor. Things like bridges and monuments, buildings and boulevards, military installations and naval vessels, parks and public spaces, coins and postage stamps. To honor them for service to a greater good, often through self-sacrifice.

Not so with the 45th and 47th President of the United States, who has had hundreds of locations, products, and institutions he has branded, most of which thankfully no longer exist. The grandiose breadth of his shallow ego boggles the mind.

So forgettable are the brands he and others launched in his name that a refresher is in order. Listing them individually takes up too much space, so a classified summary will have to do. You can see them all in this ever-changing Wikipedia article.

Let’s start with the most visible ones, involving government programs and institutions:

The first three plus the last two require congressional acts to make them official. We’ll see.

Trump-branded real estate ventures include:

  • Eight Trump Towers plus four under development and 14 canceled or never completed
  • Four current hotels, four former hotels, two in development, and 13 that were canceled or never completed.
  • Nine Trump National Golf Clubs (US), nine golf courses abroad, plus four abandoned projects.
  • Seven casinos, all but one of which closed or changed names, plus four never completed.

Assorted consumer products, including cologne, vodka, steaks, chocolates, menswear, sneakers, furniture, and trading cards, all no longer offered.

Miscellaneous enterprises, including:

Bet you didn’t know that three animal species have been named after Trump, perhaps in jest.

And the government is exploring adding Trump’s face to Mount Rushmore, next to Lincoln’s.

I predict that in 2026 we will see more Trump namesakes. Here are a few I expect:

TrumpTV — A streaming channel featuring episodes of The Apprentice and other Trump TV productions, plus compilations of footage from campaign rallies and presidential addresses.

The Trumpettes — a scantily-clad chorus line in patriotic regalia modeled after the Rockettes, that will perform opening acts at the Trump-Kennedy Center and Republican campaign rallies.

Trumpons — tampons imprinted with Trumps sharpie signature, plus Dondos, gold-hued vibrators shaped like his male organ, available only to females 20 years of age or less.

Trump Tours — Luxury excursions guided by lovely young members of Turning Point USA to the Holy Land and patriotic theme parks, one of which will be

Trump SuperMax — A federal prison for convicted high-flying felons, featuring amenities like private dining rooms, valet services, and work-release programs in the financial sector, for fraudsters convicted under state laws he has been unable to pardon. Just in case, you know.

I also predict that our Chief Executive will not complete his term in office, and may not last the year. Not due to resignation or impeachment, but simply due to exhaustion from repeatedly failing to maintain his polls and his image. At least he will die rich, and I suspect his estate will profit from tickets sold to attend his funeral plus more from play-per-view coverage. 

Bonus Feature

You have surely heard of the 60 Minutes Inside CECOT segment that the newly-minted CBS News Chief Bari Weiss suppressed. For a few days it was on Youtube, but got taken down per orders from Paramount, the owner of CBS. You can still see a version of it posted by Allison Gill on her Mueller She Wrote blog. It was was taped off a TV screen in Canada, where the story aired. Click the image to see it and read Gill’s commentary.

Inside CECOT news story from 60 Minutes 0n Dec 22, 2025

Weiss’s excuse for postponing the story was that it “wasn’t ready” because the Trump regime needed a chance to comment on it. She lied. The producer, Sharyn Alfonsi, responded in a staff memo “We requested responses to questions and/or interviews with DHS, the White House, and the State Department. Government silence is a statement, not a VETO. Their refusal to be interviewed is a tactical maneuver designed to kill the story.”

Read more about the incident and Bar Weiss’ career choices at the String in a Maze blog, which concludes:

Bari’s foremost talent is getting stuffy media types to hand her money and power. She convinced them that she shares their concerns about liberal overreach in newsrooms (and on college campuses), and that she had the antidote. She’s been selling that pitch her entire career. She sold it to The New York Times, she sold it to her investors at The Free Press, and she sold it to the big wigs at Paramount Skydance. Now she’s sitting atop the media world, and she’s trying to sell it to you.

As legendary CBS correspondent Edward R. Murrow used to say when signing off from a newscast, “Good night and good luck.”

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