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Dems implore Obama to remove Trump's name from building

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by Joseph Earnest August 21, 2015

 

Newscast Media WASHINGTON—Democratic lawmakers Rep. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., and Tony Cardenas, D-Calif have asked the Obama administration to help remove Donald Trump's name from a building in the nation's capital.

 

A letter written by Gallego and Cardenas to the Secretary of the Department of the Interior Sally Jewell, and the Acting Administrator for the General Services Administration Denise Roth, urges them to keep Donald Trump’s name from being prominently displayed at the new hotel in Washington D.C. at the site of the Old Post Office Building.

 

In a letter, Rep Ruben Gallego said, “The federal government has a responsibility to keep emblems of racism and hatred out of public lands. In accordance with the Department of the Interior’s efforts to ban the Washington Redskins’ logo from public lands, we are calling on the Department of the Interior and GSA to keep Mr. Trump’s name from being prominently displayed at what is a historical federal building in the heart of our nation’s capital.

“Given Mr. Trump’s insulting, hateful, and divisive comments about Latinos and women, the Trump name will forever be linked to anti-immigrant, anti-Latino, and anti-women sentiments. To prominently display Mr. Trump’s last name over the old post office building would send a message of exclusion and intolerance to millions of Latinos and women in the district and across the country.”

An extract of the letter is shown below:

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Cardenas said the Trump name is now synonymous with hatred and discrimination, and it should not be the message displayed on public lands in a place of honor and history, across from the White House. The entire letter can be read here.

The letter is in response to statements Trump made almost two months ago calling Mexicans criminals and rapists.

The real estate mogul will be converting the Old Post Office Building into the Trump International Hotel after he completes the ongoing renovations on the property.

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