Michael Gold, in The New York Times (gift link), under the headline “Officials Pressed Schumer to Help Name Penn Station and Dulles Airport for Trump”:

The Trump administration has sought to pressure Senator Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York and the minority leader, to help name New York’s Penn Station and Washington Dulles International Airport after President Trump in exchange for releasing billions of dollars he has frozen for a rail tunnel under the Hudson River.

Why use “sought to pressure” when “attempted to extort” is equally accurate and vastly more intellectually honest?

Mr. Trump, known for affixing his name to New York City high-rises and Atlantic City hotels, has appeared to be undertaking a similar drive on a national scale during his second term. Beyond the Kennedy Center, Mr. Trump and his allies have stamped his name on the U.S. Institute of Peace and public-facing federal projects like investment accounts for American children and TrumpRx, a website that will help Americans buy medication directly from drugmakers.

Trump’s name will soon be expunged from everything it’s been slapped on—a national detrumpification that mirrors Germany’s denazification. His name will be a universally acknowledged slur. There will be nothing to remind us he existed.

I’ll grant one exception: Rikers becomes “Trump/Epstein Island.”