The city of Hialeah followed through on its promise to name a street after former President Donald Trump.
On Wednesday, the Hialeah City Council voted unanimously to rename Palm Avenue as “President Donald J. Trump Avenue.”
As the Tampa Free Press reported last week, Hialeah Mayor Steve Bovo appeared with Trump at a rally in the city and announced that he would push through the street-naming plan in a matter of days.
“We were gonna do right by you, because you’ve always kept your promises to the residents of the great nation, and we’re appreciative,” Bovo told Trump at the time.
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“The council’s decision makes Trump the first president to have a road named after him in Hialeah,” the Standard reported.
The decision was startling because Hialeah is 95% Hispanic, and for all his years as a candidate and president, Democrats, liberal media figures and left-wing activists have denounced Trump as a racist for his tough illegal-immigration policies.
Yet there was controversy surrounding the move.
The city’s Historic Preservation Board opposed the renaming effort, as did some residents.
One of them, Ferny Coipel, chair of Hialeah’s Historic Preservation Board, proposed naming a street for former President Barack Obama, the Standard noted.
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“Absolutely not,” Councilman Carl Zogby replied in dismissing the suggestion.
Bovo also chimed in, telling Coipel that Obama shook “the hand of the devil” in 2016 by traveling to Havana to meet then-Cuban President Raul Castro.
“Obama made Cuba great again,” Bovo said. “Trump made America great again.”
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