TRUMP IS GETTING A JERUSALEM SQUARE NAMED IN HIS HONOR

Newsweek ^ | May 8, 2018 | Tom Porter

[confederatecarpetbag]

Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat has announced plans to rename a square near the new U.S. embassy site in the city in honor of President Donald Trump.

In a statement Tuesday, Barkat’s office announced that the square adjacent to the new embassy will be renamed United States Square "in honor of President Donald Trump."

[Ezekiel]

TRUMP IS GETTING A JERUSALEM SQUARE NAMED IN HIS HONOR

Interesting. It's a roundabout. When a square really is a circle, just like the name (כיכר, kikar) "square" means. Nice touch with the globe in the middle.

On Tuesday it was reported that Trump will not attend the May 14 opening of the new embassy, with the U.S. government’s delegation to instead include the president’s daughter, Ivanka Trump, and her husband and presidential adviser Jared Kushner.

The delegation will be led by deputy Secretary of State John Sullivan, and includes Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman and Jason Greenblatt, who is heading the Trump Administration’s Middle East peace negotiations, the White House announced Monday.

כיכר ארה"ב

Another article:

https://www.timesofisrael.com/jerusalem-traffic-circle-to-be-named-for-us-and-trump/

[wally_bert]

DT named stuff in NK would trigger countless liberal breakdowns and probably suicide attempts.

I’m all for it.

I doubt I could afford to stay at Trump Towers Pyongyang.

[Albion Wilde]

the U.S. government’s delegation [will] include... presidential adviser Jared Kushner....Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman and Jason Greenblatt, who is heading the Trump Administration’s Middle East peace negotiations

All those years in Hebrew School are coming in handy! May they have a blessed and meaningful trip -- hard to imagine how elated and honored they must feel at this historic occasion!

[justiceseeker93]

Barkat’s office announced that the square adjacent to the new embassy will be renamed United States Square "in honor of President Donald Trump."

It should be named Donald J. Trump Square, NOT United States Square. Seems like some Israelis are trying not to offend the Democrats by not naming the square for Trump.

[Sarah Barracuda]

I have family members in Israel who are SO happy that Donald Trump is our President..they say after 8 years of Jew hating Obama its SO nice to have a US President who supports Israel as much as Donald Trump does :-)

[Ezekiel]

It should be named Donald J. Trump Square, NOT United States Square. Seems like some Israelis are trying not to offend the Democrats by not naming the square for Trump.

It's a traffic circle anyway, not like a real park. There are better places and honors suited for President Donald J. Trump.

JerUSAlem is David's Capital, so how about a

Key to the City

In some countries, such as the United States, an ornamental key – the "Key to the City" – is presented to esteemed visitors, residents, or others whom the city wishes to honour. This practice is a variation on the Freedom of the City tradition, and has a similar symbolic meaning; evoking medieval walled cities, the gates of which would be guarded during the day and locked at night, the key symbolises the freedom of the recipient to enter and leave the city at will, as a trusted friend of city residents.

Freedom of the City

[SamAdams76]

Here is a fish restaurant in Kurdistan, Iraq (of all places) named after Trump.

Yes, it's for real!

[justiceseeker93]

In some countries, such as the United States, an ornamental key – the "Key to the City" – is presented to esteemed visitors, residents, or others whom the city wishes to honour. This practice is a variation on the Freedom of the City tradition, and has a similar symbolic meaning; evoking medieval walled cities, the gates of which would be guarded during the day and locked at night, the key symbolises the freedom of the recipient to enter and leave the city at will, as a trusted friend of city residents.

Thanks for that little lesson on the origin of the "key to the city" tradition. You learn something new just about every day here, so I'll try to make it a point to be on FR more frequently than I have been recently.