WASHINGTON — Introducing the “Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace.”
President Trump’s name was added to signage outside the United States Institute of Peace Wednesday as he prepares to host a deal-signing Thursday with two African presidents.
Trump’s name was added to the building’s facade. Kevin Lamarque“Donald J. Trump” is now embossed just above the engraved words “United States Institute of Peace” at the entrance of the building just north of the Lincoln Memorial along Constitution Avenue.
Trump’s name also appears in silver lettering on a masonry wall in front of the eye-catching modernist structure, whose curved roofline is the first thing many drivers see after entering the capital from Virginia.
It was not clear if the building or institute had been renamed formally.
The White House did not immediately issue a statement and the Institute of Peace’s website was down for maintenance Wednesday.
Trump, 79, routinely boasts about helping end eight international conflicts this year, but was passed over for the Nobel Peace Prize in October.
President Trump boasts of solving conflicts during his second term, but was passed over for a Nobel Prize. REUTERSTrump’s event at the facility with the presidents of Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo intends to conclude the more than generation-long conflict among armed factions in the region.
Trump previously hosted at the White House the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan to conclude their long-running post-Soviet conflict, including with a new transportation corridor named in Trump’s honor.
The president then in October hosted a signing in Malaysia with the leaders of Cambodia and Thailand, which fought a four-day border war that he helped mediate in July.
Trump fired most of the institute’s board in March, along with about 300 staffers, prompting a court battle pending before the Supreme Court. A district judge ruled against Trump, who then won an appeal.
