The best suggestion I saw today on Facebook was a post that said “NY should rename 5th Ave. as Barack Obama Avenue because then that would be the address of Trump Tower forever.”
It’s doable. Sure, 5th Avenue is an internationally known brand. It’s been mentioned in songs and films galore. There’s a perfume by that name. But it’s only a number and streets get new names all the time. He was a U.S. president, and generally a popular one, especially in New York. And it’s a New York City government decision, so it’s politically conceivable.
There would be people who object. I don’t like it that there’s an airport named for Ronald Reagan, but there you have it. Once, when I was working as an airlines reservation agent, I got a customer who refused to fly into LaGuardia because (in his words) “LaGuardia was a goddamned communist!” So, both sides get it.
Of course, if we were to be sensitive to everybody’s opinions, probably no streets, or airports, or High Schools should be named after politicians because some people hated them. Look at the controversy over Confederate Monuments.
Maybe that would be better. But, you know it would just eat Donald Trump alive if they did name it after Obama and, for that reason alone, I hope it happens.
An Interesting Idea
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