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Utah's Garfield County board of commissioners will meet next week to consider naming a scenic road after President Donald Trump. Burr Trail Scenic Backway, one of the two roads up for consideration, is a 66-mile historic road through Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, which Trump attempted to illegally shrink in his first term.
“It would just give us a way to tell the president that we really felt like he helped us,” said Commissioner Leland Pollock, referring to when Trump tried to shrink the national monument by millions of acres, a move opposed by majorities of voters in every Western state including Utah.
A change.org petition has gathered nearly two thousand signatures in opposition to the name change. “Degrading the past by prioritizing the name of a man who fractured the monument during his first term makes no sense,” said one commenter. “It is an appalling waste of time and local tax dollars that this is even a conversation being had.”
In 2018, there was an attempt to rename a different Utah highway after Trump following his attempted reduction of Grand Staircase-Escalante and Bears Ears national monuments. The proposal was dropped after the bill sponsor said he received overwhelming criticism.
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As much as President Trump wants to take us back maybe 30 years, that’s not where America’s economy is and that’s certainly not where the law is.”
