‘Absolute lie’: Dem leader calls out Trump's claim he suggested 'Trump Station'
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer didn’t waste any time firing back at President Donald Trump on Friday over claims that it was the New York Democrat who suggested renaming New York Penn Station and Washington Dulles International Airport after Trump.
“Chuck Schumer suggested that to me about changing the name of Penn Station to Trump Station,” the MAGA leader reportedly said while speaking to reporters on Air Force One.
But Schumer fiercely rejected that premise.
“Absolute lie,” Schumer wrote in a post on X. “He knows it. Everyone knows it. Only one man can restart the project and he can restart it with the snap of his fingers.”
The political back and forth came as reports emerged this week that Trump wants his name on both Dulles and Penn Station while threatening to withhold federal funding for a major transportation project connecting New York City and New Jersey. Schumer swiftly rejected the suggestion, according to media reports.
Schumer later targeted the president's since-deleted racist post depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes.
"Your dad has no obligation to post racist memes," he wrote in a reply post to Donald Trump Jr. "I wish someone would tell him that."