Aishvarya Kavi, The New York Times; Trump Renames Institute of Peace for Himself
[Kip Currier: In February 2025, 2.0, Trump 2.0 Executive Order 14217 (see highlighted section below) created the conditions that resulted in the gutting of the U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP), a nonprofit corporation created by Congress in 1984 and signed into law by Pres. Ronald Reagan.
Commencing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered:
Section 1 . Purpose. It is the policy of my Administration to dramatically reduce the size of the Federal Government, while increasing its accountability to the American people. This order commences a reduction in the elements of the Federal bureaucracy that the President has determined are unnecessary. Reducing the size of the Federal Government will minimize Government waste and abuse, reduce inflation, and promote American freedom and innovation.
Sec. 2 . Reducing the Scope of the Federal Bureaucracy. (a) The non-statutory components and functions of the following governmental entities shall be eliminated to the maximum extent consistent with applicable law, and such entities shall reduce the performance of their statutory functions and associated personnel to the minimum presence and function required by law:
(i) the Presidio Trust;
(ii) the Inter-American Foundation;
(iii) the United States African Development Foundation; and
(iv) the United States Institute of Peace.
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/02/25/2025-03133/commencing-the-reduction-of-the-federal-bureaucracy
The USIP employed approximately 300 persons and is credited with having trained more than 65,000 professionals.
On December 3, 2025 Trump renamed the USIP after himself.]
[Excerpt]
"A dormant government building in the nation’s capital may seem like an unlikely setting for the signing of a peace deal. But nearly nine months after the Trump administration seized control of the U.S. Institute of Peace headquarters in an extraordinary public showdown and all but shuttered it, the center has re-emerged, newly named for President Trump.
The morning before Mr. Trump was scheduled to host a signing ceremony at the institute with the presidents of Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, workers arrived at the building on the National Mall to install Mr. Trump’s name in large, silver letters to two sides of the exterior of the building, positioning his name to the left of where the institute’s name was already engraved into the facade.
The result was a re-dubbing of the building as the “Donald J. Trump United States Institute of Peace.”"
