US GOP bill would force D.C. to call its Metro the "Trump Train" - It also renames the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) to the Washington Metropolitan Authority for Greater Access (WMAGA)

Andrew Solender
May 29, 2025

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President Trump during a Memorial Day wreath-laying ceremony at Arlington National Cemetary on May 26. Photo: Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images

A House Republican introduced legislation to block federal funding for the Washington, D.C. Metrorail system unless it is renamed the "Trump Train".

Why it matters: The bill is likely a long-shot, but it is the latest in a series of GOP measures geared primary towards displaying fealty to President Trump.

Driving the news: Rep. Greg Steube's (R-Fla.) Make Autorail Great Again Act threatens to withhold more than $150 million in annual federal grants to the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA).
  • To receive the funding, the system would have to be renamed to the Washington Metropolitan Authority for Greater Access (WMAGA) — a play on Trump's "Make America Great Again" slogan.
  • D.C. would also have to refer to its Metrorail system as the "Trump Train," another one of Trump's oft-used slogans.
What he's saying: Steube said in a statement that the bill "demands accountability by conditioning federal funding on reforms that signal a cultural shift away from bureaucratic stagnation toward public-facing excellence and patriotism."
  • WMATA, he argued, needs "a fresh identity that aligns with efficiency, service quality, and renewed public trust."
  • Steube noted that Washington, D.C. is hosting the 2026 FIFA World Cup and the 2027 NFL Draft, and "must meet the highest standards."
Yes, but: Despite taking a major hit during the pandemic and still facing financial challenges, the D.C. Metro is seen as a national benchmark in efficiency, cleanliness and safety.
  • The system has made major strides since 2022 under CEO Randy Clarke, as Axios' Cuneyt Dil reported.
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Summer of George said:
DC Metro is one of the less niggery subways in the US and we'd like to keep it that way.
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You say that now but wait until 2077 when it gets filled with feral ghouls

Trump should just do something wacky to really drive people nuts - like demand a chimpanzee butler in the white house that brings him a diet coke and cheeseburger whenever he rings a little bell. Said chimp would of course be wearing roller skates, a bellboy costume and a maga hat, and be named kamela

I would eagerly await the inevitable breaking news story about how kamela chimped out at trump in the oval office for beating her after an incident about the chimp spazzing out over trump winning a game of mario kart was leaked and misunderstood the situation

All the chimping out reports about kamela would make the journos, NAACP and the entire left seethe like nothing before
 
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Summer of George said:
DC Metro is one of the less niggery subways in the US and we'd like to keep it that way.
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I am a big fan of the DC Metro and certainly it is much less niggerfied than, say, the L or the NY subway/hobo murder carnival, but I have never once seen or heard a White WMATA employee.
 
I mean, its funny but I feel like there are more pressing issues. Honestly it's kind of depressing they are fucking around with this shit well random ass judges actually run the country and make law.
 
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I mean, its funny but I feel like there are more pressing issues. Honestly it's kind of depressing they are fucking around with this shit well random ass judges actually run the country and make law.
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I feel you, but there are how many thousands of people working for the federal government. We can go after judges (not quickly/decisively enough, but that's a different story) while some staffer inserts a shitpost into a bill as well.
 
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Even politicans can be petty. I for one love it just for the liberals seething that it would cause.
 
This is where Californians are weak. All they need to do is release a gay porno of a bunch of fags fucking each other in a man train wearing bad Trump wigs, terrible spray tans and and only communicating by doing Alec Baldwin tier terrible Trump impressions. Release it free over every one of the porn sites, pay the right shit posters to boost it and if done right MAGA would never touch the term Trump Train ever again.

You see this is why Democrats lose, they'd never be so bold as to take a salt the earth approach to something the opposition wants to claim.
 
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