Mary Trump Reacts to Donald Trump Prison Proposal

Mary Trump, the estranged niece of Donald Trump, cheered on House Democrats on Friday after they proposed that a federal prison in Miami be renamed after the former president.

Representatives Gerry Connolly of Virginia, Jared Moskowitz of Florida and John Garamendi of California introduced a bill on Friday, which states that "any reference" to the Miami Federal Correctional Institution would be changed to the "Donald J. Trump Federal Correctional Institution."

Reacting to the new bill, Mary Trump wrote on X, formerly Twitter, on Friday afternoon, "Hey Dems: more of this, please."

Mary Trump has been a staunch critic of her uncle who is the presumed GOP 2024 presidential nominee and is on pace for a rematch with President Joe Biden in November. She wrote the memoir Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man published in 2020, which was critical of the former president.

Newsweek reached out to Trump's spokesperson via email for comment.

The push to rename the Florida federal prison comes a week after a group of House Republicans introduced a bill to change the name of Washington Dulles International Airport—the largest airport in the Washington, D.C., area—to "Donald J. Trump International Airport."

Pennsylvania Representative Guy Reschenthaler sponsored the bill, which was backed by six other GOP Representatives: Chuck Fleischmann of Tennessee, Paul Gosar of Arizona, Barry Moore of Alabama, Troy Nehls of Texas, Andy Ogles of Tennessee and Michael Waltz of Florida.

In an X post on Tuesday, Reschenthaler wrote, "Freedom. Prosperity. Strength. That's what America stood for under the leadership of President Donald J. Trump — the best president of my lifetime. And that's why I'm introducing legislation to rename Dulles as the Donald J. Trump International Airport."

The D.C. airport is currently named after John Foster Dulles, secretary of state who served during the Cold War under President Dwight D. Eisenhower in the 1950s.

Connolly said in a joint statement with Moskowitz and Garamendi on Friday: "When our Republican colleagues introduced their bill to rename Dulles after Donald Trump, I said the more fitting option would be to rename a federal prison."

He continued: "I see no reason to wait. Donald Trump faces nearly 100 felony charges. He has been found liable of sexual abuse and, subsequently, for defaming the victim of that abuse. He has been fined hundreds of millions of dollars in a civil fraud case. It is only right that the closest federal prison to Mar-a-Lago should bear his name. I hope our Republican friends will join us in bestowing upon Donald J. Trump the only honor he truly deserves."

Trump faces four different criminal incitements. He has been accused of election interference on the federal and state level, mishandling classified documents and obstructing the government's efforts to retrieve them, and falsifying business records relating to hush money payments made to adult film star Stormy Daniels during his 2016 presidential campaign.

The former president has pleaded not guilty to all charges against him and claimed that the cases are politically motivated.

Trump has also appealed judgments in two civil cases.

The former president had to post a nearly $92 million bond in March after a jury ordered him to pay writer E. Jean Carroll $83.3 million in a defamation lawsuit she filed against him.

Meanwhile, on Monday, Trump posted a $175 million bond in the civil fraud case that New York Attorney General Letitia James brought against him after a judge ordered him to pay $355 million, plus interest, in damages.