This grand plan to rename New York’s Penn Station after Donald Trump has been kicking around for a while now, yet you may be surprised to learn that I AM ALL FOR IT. In fact, I cannot wait for this to happen!
It is a well-known fact that the sheer scale of this administration’s delusions of grandeur is matched only by its epic incompetence. Look what they did to a shallow pool ferchrissakes, and just imagine how badly they can fuck up a train station! (Note that this is not the part I am excitedly looking forward to, but it seems inevitable, with or without Trump’s name slapped all over it.)
It is also a well-known fact that much of our fair city holds a visceral disgust – dare I say hatred? – for the current president, a sentiment that stretches back long before he had any political ambitions.
A third well-known fact is that New York City is home to an enormous population of extraordinarily creative people, the vast, VAST majority of whom I’d venture are far-left terrorists lefties eager to protest the current political regime.
I think you can see where I’m coming from and where I’m going with this, which seems particularly apropos for a post about a train station.
It is my prediction, as well as my fervent hope, dream and desire, that no matter where the letters T, R, U, M, and P are found together in and around Penn Station*, they will be dismantled, defaced, detached, defiled, and/or disappeared in the most brilliant and hilarious ways imaginable. And make no mistake: the brave and patriotic artists performing this public service will be captured on video by surveillance cameras, standers-by, and perhaps even the valiant vandals themselves, their hijinks to be posted far and wide across the ‘net for everyone to enjoy!
THIS IS GOING TO BE SO AWESOME.
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*Yes, it will always be referred to by New Yorkers as Penn Station. Fun fact: it was already renamed Moynihan Train Hall over five years ago, and in that time I have never once heard a single person refer to it as anything other than Penn Station. New Yorkers may remember when the city’s real estate lobby kept trying to rename the rapidly-gentrifying neighborhood of Hell’s Kitchen “Clinton.” Hahaha! Nice try, assholes. If nothing else, we are a bunch of stubborn motherfuckers, and we won’t easily be pushed around by the likes of the city’s real estate lobby, and certainly not by Donald fucking Trump. At least not without getting something gloriously gratifying out of the deal.
the moynihoyny trainystashey? never hoid of her.
EXACTLY.
Minor quibble: the Moynihan Train Hall is a new facility across the street for use by Amtrak and Long Island Rail Road passengers. I’ve used it myself on three occasions waiting for Amtrak trains.
Penn Station is still Penn Station, basically the basement of what’s now Madison Square Garden, and still the only waiting area for New Jersey Transit passengers.
billseymour: You are absolutely correct in every technical detail. However, my point still stands. Let me put it this way: if I jump in a cab and say “Moynihan Train Hall,” the driver will look at me like I just said “The moon, please.” This is because whichever side of 8th Avenue one uses to enter the train station, it is, was, and forever shall be known to New Yorkers as PENN STATION.
I actually agree with you. I even think of the Moynihan Train Hall as an extension of Penn Station myself. I was just pointing out that it’s a whole new thing, not a renaming of the existing thing.
I also agree that renaming Penn Station for that other person is pretty funny.
I missed your post when it came out (so you published on Ftb first). I got the information from an Amtrak-related e-mail list and made a similar remark about being amused by the idea. One of the MAGAts in the group was quick to blame Biden (also totally predictable). It seems that the Wilmington, DE station had Joe Biden added to its name. It’s a station that Biden used routinely to commute to D.C. when he was a senator, and I don’t remember any hoopla about it, nor do I imagine that Biden was the originator of the idea because he needs constant praise. 8-)
I suggest that the train station be named after Trump in either Columbus OH or Nashville TN.
Neither city has any Amtrak rail service.
The best case scenario is that Trump pushes to expand Amtrak service to the chosen city.
I think New York should consider seceding from the USA and becoming an independent city-state.