Gerry Connolly Roasts Trump Over Naming Of Federal Prison [Video]

Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-VA) roasted former President Donald Trump by claiming that Republicans lawmakers should rename a prison after him because he might be “visiting” soon.

Earlier this week, House Republicans brought forward legislation to have Washington Dulles International Airport renamed after Trump. In response, Democratic lawmakers forward brought introduced legislation to have a federal prison named after the Republican nominee.

Connolly, along with Reps. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL) and Rep. John Garamendi (D-CA), released the two-paged bill which proposed renaming the Miami Federal Correctional Institution in Florida to the the “Donald J. Trump Federal Correctional Institution.”

During an MSNBC interview on Sunday, anchor Jonathan Capeheart asked about the Virginia lawmaker about his latest legislative efforts.

Well, there’s a nice federal penitentiary right near Mar-a-Lago. And I just thought for a guy who’s now got 88 criminal indictments pending, criminal. Plus two major civil penalty trials that have already been resolved, costing him about a half $1 billion. …