A law passed by Parliament has removed the US president’s name from the title of a power line funded by the United States.
The project, previously known as the “Trump Liberty Line”, will now simply be called the Strășeni–Gutinaș power line.
It seems the Energy Ministry could have shown a little more gratitude to good old Donald. After all, the United States committed $130 million to the construction of the line.
Just a month ago, the government had designated the project as being of “national importance”.
But now, only days after Trump’s Republicans suffered a setback in the midterm elections, Moldovan officials have decided to wipe his name off the country’s map.
Grosu and Junghietu may have miscalculated. Trump may have suffered an electoral defeat, but he is still in the White House and remains in charge of the foreign policy of the world’s leading superpower.
Such a pointed snub is unlikely to go unnoticed by an ambitious president like Trump.
