Overview
- The State Department announced the United States Institute of Peace is now the Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace and posted a photo showing Trump’s name over the entrance.
- Photos and eyewitness accounts reported by the Washington Post show the new signage affixed at multiple locations on the Washington, D.C., headquarters.
- The renaming follows Trump’s February decree to dissolve the institute, the ouster of its director under police escort, and broad staff dismissals in Washington.
- USIP and members of its board have sued over the takeover; a federal judge ruled the administration acted unlawfully in May, but that decision is stayed pending appeal.
- The building is slated to host a Rwanda–DRC reconciliation signing with Presidents Paul Kagame and Félix Tshisekedi, highlighting the site’s immediate use for administration diplomacy.