Florida City Renames Street ‘President Donald J. Trump Avenue’

Former President Donald Trump delivers remarks at a campaign rally at The Ted Hendricks Stadium at Henry Milander Park in Hialeah, Fla., on Nov. 8, 2023. Alon Skuy/Getty Images

Part of a South Florida city thoroughfare will be renamed in honor of former President Donald Trump—and a just-released public record details why.

Esteban Bovo, mayor of Hialeah, Florida, signed a resolution on Nov. 27, a couple of weeks after the City Council unanimously approved the measure, stating that the street-renaming was justified because “the United States thrived under President Trump’s leadership.”

President Trump was elected to office in 2016 but failed to regain the White House in 2020; he’s now the frontrunner for the Republican nomination as he makes his third presidential run.

Among his GOP challengers is Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. Mr. Bovo has said he “loves” Mr. DeSantis but supports President Trump’s reelection bid because of his prior experience and achievements. The Epoch Times sought comment from Mr. DeSantis’s campaign but received no response prior to publication.

The street-renaming resolution, which was released on the city’s website on Nov. 29, also praises the former president for enacting “some of the largest tax cuts and reforms in American history by signing the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.”

Officials listed other achievements of the former president, including policies that bolstered the U.S. economy and military and “launched the U.S. Space Force.”

Of particular interest to Hialeah’s large Hispanic population, he “issued sanctions and penalties against Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua.”

These actions were “aimed at weakening Cuba’s communist regime and ending the rule of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro,” the resolution says.

As a result of the resolution becoming official with Mr. Bovo’s signature, part of Palm Avenue will be renamed “President Donald J. Trump Avenue.”

City employees told The Epoch Times that they were unable to estimate when the new sign might be erected. Neither Mr. Bovo nor his chief of staff were available for interviews on Nov. 30, receptionists said.

Mr. Bovo disclosed the signage proposal at a Nov. 8 Trump rally held along that same road.

On that day, more than 10,000 people flocked to Ted Hendricks Stadium in support of the former president, overshadowing his GOP rivals as they debated in nearby Miami in a Republican National Committee-sanctioned event.

Mr. Bovo joined President Trump onstage at the rally and told him, “You always kept your promises to this great nation.”

The mayor posed with President Trump, holding a street sign emblazoned with the 45th president’s name. It was unclear whether that same sign would be posted on the street.

About 75 percent of the mayor’s fellow Cuban Americans support President Trump, Mr. Bovo told The Epoch Times and other reporters in a post-rally interview.

People whose families came from Cuba appreciate the former president’s support for legal immigration, his opposition to illegal immigration, and his advocacy for free speech and other American rights that are oppressed in Cuba, Mr. Bovo and others said.

Last year, the city’s Historic Preservation Board rejected the street-renaming plan amid objections from a handful of President Trump’s detractors. However, those are few and far between in Hialeah, a city that voted overwhelmingly to reelect President Trump in 2020.

The former president won the state of Florida. Still, Democrat Joe Biden was declared the winner of the hotly contested national election that many people dispute to this day over “irregularities.”